E-cannonball
The E-Cannonball is an electric car consumption comparison drive that has been held annually since 2018. The aim of the event is to make known the suitability of electric cars for everyday use when driving beyond the range of a full charge of the battery, also outside the circle of electric vehicle enthusiasts. The event also serves to illustrate the performance of publicly accessible charging stations . The event has been held every year since 2018.
background
The E-Cannonball is a modified form of a regularity run. Electric cars have a “sweet spot” in which the relationship between driving speed / energy consumption and charging speed / battery size enables the optimal travel time. The drivers with the best tactics are those who move / recharge their electric car as close to the sweet spot as possible. So it doesn't depend on the performance of the respective vehicles. Rather, a ride that is as smooth as possible after the participants' previous “sweetspot” calculation is the decisive factor for the performance.
While petrol and diesel are available for cars with combustion engines at a tightly knit network of filling stations, drivers of e-cars on long journeys are dependent on functioning charging stations .
expenditure
2018
On November 17, 2018, the 29 participating e-cars started in the morning from around 7 a.m. every minute from the "Alte Meierei" car park in Ahrensburg near Hamburg and drove individually to the same hotel near Munich . The optimal travel time (time between departure and arrival including breaks to recharge the batteries) was 10 hours and 17 minutes for 837 kilometers.
2019
On September 28, 2019, the participants started from the island of Mainau (Lake Constance). 60 e-car teams were allowed to register. The goal was a hotel on the A 10 near Berlin .
2020
The next E-Cannonball is to take place from September 25 to 27, 2020 as a "capital tour" from Berlin to Bonn.
Incidents
In 2018, Ove Kröger took part with a Tesla Model S that had already driven well over 300,000 km. With a camera team on board that produced a report for the TV car magazine Grip , he was lying 50 meters in front of the supercharger in Hilpoltstein . Before the on-board computer shut down, it was possible to put the vehicle into towing mode. So the car could be pushed directly to a charging station. The charging process then started straight away.