The Project will happen in Vilnius on the 23rd of October 2010 in collaboration with Nordic Council of Ministers and the local Creative Collective OVAL.
The above is the first sketch of the Vilnius tag done in connection with the "Sea of Creativity" conference in Vilnius in the spring of 2010 where the project was first presented.
The above is the main square in Vilnius that we hope we can use.
The above is the other main square by the City Town Hall, where our friends from OVAL produced a 3D projection short film called "When Fairy Tales come True".
The small island called Ærø (Aeroe), with a flag very similar to the Rastafari flag and the world's largest Solar Panel Plant along with a bunch of windmills all over the island, is expanding its green profile.
The latest great news from Ærø is their new little armada of Electric Cars. Since the Island is rather small, one never needs to run out of energy as there are chargers installed in strategic places.
The cars can be rented from the local tourist agency during the summer when the island is packed with tourists that flock the almost too good to be true romantic and lovely little Danish Micro Cosmos of classic Danishness and cozyness. The rest of the year the cars are used by the municipality for hospice services around the island. One could say that we all live on an island. The island we move around on a daily basis; Home, work, shopping, school and close friends. Most of these places are withing a "island radius" and it it is really here the electric car is perfect. If they all can just be charged by windmills on that island...
Ærø also has one of the most colorful Ferrys seen by mankind, painted by the Danish artist duo "Randi and Katrine". Life on Ærø revolves around the ferry; who is on it, who just came to the island, who is leaving, what happened on the ferry, if the ferry was on time and why the ferry sailing from Ærøskøbing (above) should be the main ferry for the whole island, and not the other ones from the other two villages (Marstal and Søby) on the island. This discussion has been ongoing for decades and was just ended by having two ferries going from Ærøskøbing to Svendborg, the new ferry being the old ferry from Marstal. From now on, hopefully the main discussions among the people of Ærø will be about how lovely the newly painted is and if they were ever to get a new ferry, it had to be electric running of the island's windmills or nothing else.
Siemens has come up with the world’s first all-electric car ferry to be delivered to Norway, which can transport 120 cars along with 360 passengers while sailing entirely on electric motors. The 80-meter vessel, dubbed ZeroCat 120, will be delivered with onboard batteries. Plans are being made on Ærø to bring a similar Electric Ferry to Ærø in the near future.
The electric ferry includes a battery weighing 10 metric tons, but overall the weight of the ferry is just half of the ferry of conventional design. One of the best features of the ferry is that it it can be recharged in just 10 minutes in the breaks between crossings. This feature was integrated in Norway because the local grid is not equipped to deliver such a large amount of power in a short duration. Therefore batteries have been installed at each port, which deliver power at a fast pace to the onboard batteries and then recharge themselves slowly from the local grid. On Ærø, where there is both plenty of Solar Power and Windmills, most likely the Electric Ferry will be charged by the power generated on the Island.
The above image was taken on Ærø in 2008 and was used for viral images for CO2 E - Race in the early stages of the project
More about Ærø HERE
Another set of photos and story about Ærø HERE
The above CO2 painting over Roskilde was made by the 7 year old Sasha Estella Fuglsang Mikkelsen and a follow-up event for children will take place again in Roskilde in connection with the installation of the permanent LED Light route through the city.
The White Tesla from Vind Energy and the White Melex from Svenningsen's on display at the morning Electric Car Exhibition on the main square of Roskilde City, with the Roskilde Cathedral in the background where Danish King's and Queens have been buried for centuries.
There was also a small exhibition of the cars and a scooter in front of the Roskilde Municipality Building. The second car in line after the red Citroen was a solar powered car from Ben & Jerry's.
Captian Hope held his now classic Ode to Ra or "The Sunny Happy People Speech"
Mr. Green and his Climate Clowns and Crew performed for the Roskilde children at the nearby Public Library, on the Square and all over the Roskilde Festival.
Mr. Green was also in charge of the PAINT in the form of color coded GPS devices to be installed in all the vehicles part of the painting performance.
The Cars (The Brushes) performing the painting performance through the streets of Roskilde.
Singing the Energy Song inside of the ARRIVA Electric bus on the route.
The Electric Scooters and Electric Motor Cykles driving behind the bus.
The Roskilde Festival Th!nk City Car driving in front of the caravan on it's way into the Festival Area with the Twin Towers in the back ground.
The Melex with a Mr. Green on the back and the Segway entering the Roskilde Festival area.
Chris Paine (Director of the documentary "Who Killed the Electric Car") interviewing Esben Danielsen from Roskilde Festival for his short film to be screened at COP16 in Cancun.
The Danish Climate Minister Lykke Friis came by and got a green nose by Mr. Green and declared: "CANCUN CAN!"
Along with driving the Green Electric Scooter with a smile!
The CO2 E - Race Roskilde Crew was happy in the end of the day and later went to go and see the artist currently known as:
The 48 Volt motor Danish built electric Drag Bike "Silver Giant II" using Positive Energy Batteries set world record in Sweden.
Above image from the exhibition of Electric Motorbikes at the Roskilde version of the project part 1, in the summer of 2009. Also notice the Electric Nimbus next to Axel (man pointing finger) that Chris Paine could be seen driving in Copenhagen, summer of 2010.
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)
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
Sunday, February 21, 2010
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.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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.
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.
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.
