CO2 E - RACE IN ROSKILDE CITY AND ROSKILDE FESTIVAL

The project will collaborate with the City of Roskilde and Roskilde Festival to produce the project on the 4th of July 2010. More information soon! If anyone has a Little Red Corvette, they are welcome to drive in the front. (Update: at the time this was written, it was still a secret that Prince was going to play the Orange stage)

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CO2 E - Race Roskilde Version

Roskilde City

Roskilde Festival

CO2 E - Race at Roskilde Festival 2009

UPDATE: See what actually happened HERE



Good Vibes Video for Roskilde Festival 2013

THE 13TH OF DECEMBER 2009 VERSION OF THE CO2 PERFORMANCE IN COPENHAGEN

Two Tesla's, a Mini Hummer and a Biofuel run Novozymes Volvo lining up in front of Forum before the start of the CO2 Painting Performance. Each electric car was handed a TracTrac GPS modul on a silver platter by Mr Green, to use as paint when driving the CO2 route.


The Lynx on the Catwalk on Copenhagen's main Square Rådhuspladsen


The snake of cars over Queen Louise's Bridge with neon lights telling the date in the background


Chris Paine, the Director of the Documentary Film "Who Killed The Electric Car", documenting the project for his next film "The Revenge of the Electric Car"


Danish Man of Adventure, Hjalte Tin talks about his CO2 friendly vehicle that he will drive around the world in.


The Hopenhagen Globe with the CO2 Tag being drawn on by the almost 100 CO2 friendly cars and their GPS, projected by five projectors. The GPS moduls from TracTrac sent live information to the projector that screened the actual cars realtime as they moved through the streets in one long parade.

Above the CO2 tag on COWI's photo over Copenhagen and Tratrac's webinterface, showing each car on the right side, each with a different color dot and virtually painting one layer each og the final line.

Two Tesla's in fron t of The Danish National Art Gallery, shot by John Krøll as part of his 360 PAN-X documentation of the project.


Image shot out of the back window of the Electric Arriva Bus that the CO2 E - Race Crew, The Mr. Green Crew and the General Secretary of the Danish Cultural Institute Finn Andersen was all inside of during the performance.

CO2 E - RACE ON ITALIAN TV



Talking about the Copenhagen Performance on the 13th of December 2009

CO2 E - RACE REPRESENTS DENMARK IN KREANORD


In connection to the "Sea of Creativity" conference in Vilnius (Lithuania), the CO2 E - Race will be presented. KreaNord is a project initiated by the Nordic Council of Ministers to showcase creative forces and potential from the Nordic countries and the Baltic Region.

THE COPENHAGEN VERSION OF THE CO2 PAINTING
Done on the 13th of December 2009

Each of the around 100 CO2 friendly cars was installed with a GPS that painted the above CO2 symbol over Copennhagen during COP15 and sent out the signals to the universe of CO2 awareness.

To see the replay of the painting go HERE

THE CO2 E - RACE COPENHAGEN MAP

13th of December 2009


You are welcome to click on the map and download it. To print it out, please remember to use A3 paper in your printer.



See The C O 2 Route TV Show for spots to shoot during the CO2 E - Race Photography Project (Join the Facebook Group HERE)

THE CO2 E - RACE PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT
December 13th 2009, along the CO2 route

On the 13th of December, there will besides the CO2 painting, be a photography project for anyone to join. The concept is to "geotag" the CO2 route through Copenhagen with images of the CO2 friendly cars by uploading them to Google Maps or Earth. See the first set of images uploaded by Michael Wolffhechel below.


View CO2 E - Race Copenhagen in a larger map

It is a way to gather many people, images and intentions for climate awareness by creating a huge CO2 tag over Copenhagen with images of Electric Cars. This will also give the illusion that Copenhagen is filled with Electric Cars, as the vision of the CO2 E - Race is working on.


After the whole CO2 painting, the GPS devices will be delivered to the Green Vision Crew by Hans Christian Andersen's Palace.


The CO2 route goes by classic Copenhagen visual wonders.

The cars will pass by The Governments Museum of Art as part of the "2" in the CO2 route.

The "C" starts at Forum and the Bright Green exhibition


The cars will go over Queen Louise's Bridge, going down Nørrebrogade towards Nørreport Station.


The new Ferris Wheel on Axel Torv

See more about the route HERE

Join the Facebook group for the Photography Project HERE

GRØN VISION - GREEN VISION ON RÅDHUSPLADSEN

November 19th - 21st 2009


The CO2 E - Race banner by Will Gurley - "The Race for Climate Awareness" with Orange Dot


The Electric Car Skeptics


The Arriva Electric Bus

More about Grøn Vision HERE

THE RIGA PAINTING PART 1 - NOVEMBER 14TH 2009

There were 3 jumbo screens around Riga showing the CO2 painting being painted live, projecting the above web interface from the CO2 E - Race Riga site


The Inside of the LYNX with the specially designed GPS with power to also send a satellite signal from under a bridge or inside a tunnel.


The Police Escort letting the cars go through all the red lights throughout the CO2 route.


Following the route from the LYNX, documenting and turning the GPS off and on in between the "C", "O" and "2".

HUMMER HUMOR

British environmentalist Tony Juniper (special adviser for The Prince of Wales' Rain forrest Project and University of Cambridge, long-time CEO of Friends of Earth, has lead kampagnes for The Green Party, etc.) and the Danish author and professor Bjørn "The Hummer" Lomborg ("The Sceptical Environmentalist", Copenhagen Consensus).
The above shoot for ARTE TV


The Mini Hummer - also participating in the Riga version af the project.
More about the Mini Hummer HERE

PIMP MY HOPE AT THE DANISH NATIONAL MUSEUM

The HOPE, was the first Danish Electric car produced in 1982. However, it was never put into final production and has become a sad legendary story about a failed Danish industrial dream. The story told as part of the workshops and story telling at the Danish National Museum, was to tell children that "even if you fail once, you should always get back up on the horse and try again"

The above recycled cardboard version of the "Hope" car was designed by Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen and Will Gurley, who is also one of the main designers for Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens.

The children each got a "kit" with the many different parts for building their own Hope.

The above is an example of a "pimped up" version of the Hope car, made by one of the children, along with workshops and performances at the Danish National Museum every sunday in November 2009.

Captian Hope - The Climate Super Hero also came and entertained the kids!


...and of course Mr. Green and his climate clown posse


"Pimp my Hope" - The children wrote their hopes for the future on the large Hope Car parts in a workshop and then together with Will and Jacob assembled it into the above 3D cardboard car.

See more on the Museum's website HERE



Short Danish Story about the Original Hope Car



The "What If" story about "What If" the Danish Hope Whisper Electric Car would have been a Success? Where would Denmark be in the Electric Car Industry 2009? The Past could have made our current Future, just a little bit better place to be.

Thank's to Smurfit Kappa for sponsorship of the cardboard and FREE FORM for cutting out the Hope shapes in the cardboard

STREET FIRE - COPENHAGEN CUSTOM SHOW 2009

30th of October to 1st of November 2009


The CO2 E - Race and friends spent 3 days at Bella Center, showing the biggest skeptics of the Electric Car, that they also can be sexy..click on image for a closer look! The LYNX Electric car was selected to be part of the "Best in Show" competition where people could SMS their vote X Factor Styles. The above image is of some of the Show Girls in the Electric Hummer.



More about Street Fire HERE

ELECTRIC CAR EVENTS IN COPENHAGEN FALL 2009

Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard at Copenhagen Design Center's exhibition "Smart Use of Energy"


Director of Danish Design Center Christian Scherfig



COP Kreativ lecture talking about the sound of Electric Cars



It's a Small Small World - the Electric Fiat and Tesla outside of Danish Design Center



Danish Transport Minister Lars Barfoed holding a speech




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