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fully electric lawyer read the auto and mobility show me an expedition on an electric motor bike from robot and morocco cape down in south africa through a total of 20 countries. this sounds like a huge challenge. and it was for a german kenyan couple who told, read all about the trip planning to go on this trip. and someone said to me, this is what i would definitely do the

we thought me and we will travel africa with an electric motor by how far we get. is it possible? how can it be done? the idea was that he would be on the bike full time and i would drive the support vehicles because it was that had never been done before. so we wanted to be prepared. my name is thomas, my phone call and my mom is from germany. i was born and raised in belinda, and i'm an entrepreneur. and in my free times and in my work time, i'm traveling the african continent. my name is jesse, i was born and raised in kenya. i moved to berlin in 2017 and i work in color position in my free time by trips across

the motorbike that we were driving. i had a touch tank which helps you to a charged battery quicker. so you have an on board charger that you can plug in anywhere, and then you have the charge tank which can speed it up, the boxes for the equipment to an aside one top case. and of course the charging cables, very important, right. me, me, me. thank you to for the life the life lead of our trip. now the one we need mr. very happy possible. nowadays. without the thing, he ain't going nowhere. the

electric motor bike torch it popped into my head and you know what inspiration hits you. i tend to trust the city. if i have such an idea, i just want to be with the the phone something him or where we can charge. and i'm going to ask the staff if i can just get it or if i need to pay you somewhere. more rockland, south africa where the only countries on our route that have these e. v charging station merkel is the only country where we use them one hour, 12 minutes. enough time for now. thank you. ok so nice.

let's hit the real jack. we had idea to make the whole trip even in south africa, and in 6 months we want to travel the continent. and i wanted to new experience africa in a way that it's not in the news. for example, this just through my somehow we made it the most challenging that i could get. we looked at the map, was that, okay, what is the maximum amount of countries that we can kinda cover? right? 20 countries mean try to cross 20 borders in 6 months and it's not like the shannon shannon area where you get through with one visa, but know we'd like each country need its own thing. right. and then we have 2 different passports the

right behind when i get back behind the driving. oh, here we are. rotting along at 40 kilometers. up and get right on. so they advertise strains of the black forest this around 250 kilometers. i in the city traffic. now some stretches and morocco don't have charging points every 250 kilometers. so we were kind of experimenting. how can we extend that range and some way more i found out than if you drive behind the truck. you are nicely in the slipstream and the range extends massively right. of course you can only do this when the road doesn't have any potholes, and it's not the safest driving. but then i don't think we did this trip just to experience safety. i wanted to know as a possible, right. and so i remember one stretch. we did 350 kilometers from one town to the

next one able to charge me. it seems like, you know, go with the things that speak to your heart, kind of listen to your intuition the. so we needed to calculate in such a way that we were not moving it the by could not the next case. so we stopped at, it had to have electricity, so we could charge the bike. ah, tricity was like the key factor for this entire undertaking, right? we charge at gas stations, hotels, restaurants, the hell could tell us we had to generate the telco power,

the middle of nowhere as well through the chart. i don't know. everywhere you go, where the electricity is, what you got the electricity in the kitchen. let me run this cable through dell. move this ticket, right? let me plug in every night for us. what sort of like an adventurer? you never know what you're going to eat. you never know where you're going to sleep with. it's going to be nice where you're going to find an tricity. i don't think we have the final say on how good the electricity systems are. but they vary a lot. and even in one country, they could vary a lot like for example, and i barrier a lot of things are running on generators. but then the closer you get to ivory coast come up, that electricity might be coming from cookies. and they have a better electricity system fall. i know at the end of the day, just when you find a place like the bike is charging, it's just like we did good today. like the bike and charging. we're just sitting

down going over like what the day was like having a beer, those little moments or would like meet such a difference. it was raining and does a stress you want to close to the what does that did not have pharma. so it was just like pure regardless doctors so many times it's not coming up. you can click on the suv from the

office and he had to always get the help of other villagers to come and help us to push the car out of the mud. here did you want to try me back in the day we actually had a military escort special forces. they were like only had to speak to save so shocked that you don't have an escort. you can just get kidding out. and then one thing led to another, and we have an estimate for the kids, actually in the middle of winter bank in the back. otherwise i wouldn't make the difference. like 50 maxim 60. i tried. i tried to explain this to them. they didn't

know it. the weather was not so great, but it was really awesome. i really rainy sometimes with money. so also remember what the school to bill i

told them to take the motor out the pedal oil. we have a complete class in the front. it's stretched our capacities, but then also as a couple in terms of our communications. i think it was a great opportunity to practice patients to practice listening, to practice understanding and all that the the

the the the the the we moving again on the back of the truck. everything is back together. use our lovely princess. the protagonist and the play. horse motorcycle. crazy print. not fully completely, all that stuff there. oh man, that's crazy. one crazy man

. the o as in this being the business, the last time we see the citizen carts, you know let's, let's have a look together. maybe check sort of fund everything again. if there's anything that we might need to buy,

ah, we've decided overnight. so right now we had a discount and you've got to use it for free day to do with everything already. but we have mentioned that we got 3 more of that. and some of the other which is crazy with

me, we have personally gotten rid of all our stuff and now the car is ready for sale on this is some of the stuff that we're still trying to get rid of. even when we had to leave the van, i was like, how does an interesting ton of events? and it might just make a story more interesting. you know, let's see where this takes us. and it's like in the beginning, you're like, it's annoying, it slows down, but then the next part is like it's interesting, unexpected, fresh. and actually i always love how you wait and okay, i leave all my stuff here. all my fancy, an expensive perfume. then i just my go, i mean this is what i was saying. like we were in it. there was nothing. there was

no way we were going. you just had to sit in the space and be like, ok, this is where we're at. this is what is happening right now. that's go the me me. i would also just like to be honest because it gets very monotonous. it really does come with a better view like a front. and like for me it was, i would always have to be like, could you my head like this and were packed onto this bike with so many things and let go of a lot of stuff. i was just like in between thomas and then on baggage on this side and on this side it was quite comfortable. so sometimes i was just like, no going to see the

why had netflix? so i literally would download like shows the wind so loud when you're driving. so i would like to just make sure i'd like to put on subtitles. so i'm not even really hearing anything, but i like reading stuff died over the back on the bike and tell me was it always be like over there, so green the theories so beautiful and everything like no, i just need my masters to get through this the me the me we will be taking the train and i are both on the to 0 right now the distance

dramatically. so yeah, it seems that it should be alex with you. good job shop by the gas station. i see a nice hotel otherwise you keep going. i should be back within the country by tomorrow, otherwise my home shall expire. so i have to leave thomas to finish the journey without me. ah.

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in? all right folks. the last 10 on reading is there on the chip. by my love. there you go. to heartbreak. but then again, we didn't. i was so happy that i arrived to help africa safely, and i was able to get back to 0 to their motorcycles. and like i didn't just try your bike, your bike actually made it. so it's like, well and in one sense it's like all, i won't have a wonderful motor back to right anymore. but on the other hand, it's also, she's your responsibility. so yeah, with the news, little german who's

left that a quickie check in on her bill. i don't mind calling me back in one because i was also having back a bit of money back to you about leaving him to do like the last said by himself. so when i saw him at the airport, i was like, safe and sound back home. the i wouldn't do it again, not in that way just because everything has its time. everything has its purpose within 6 months, during the rainy season with a car and an electric motor bike, right? either one could have, you know, maybe work out easier, but both so i think we just gave us all the proper challenge,

the very different experiences trip while traveling for the beginning. because in the com on the motorbike trying to extend the range because it's just hanging out a huge thing that you had more responsibility and i was just like living my best. no, i wouldn't say so. i think it was just different experiences. have a problem. but in general, yet i promise i will do it again. the use .

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