British explorer and tech entrepreneur Chris Brown has driven a 1888bhp all-electric Rimac Nevera roughly 1680 miles from Harrogate, North Yorkshire, to Trogir on the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia. Brown completed the epic drive in four days to join Rimac’s second annual Trailblazer Tour and crossed seven countries in the process.
Brown is currently pursuing the Eight Poles Project, a bid to become the first person in history to reach all eight of the Earth’s Poles of Inaccessibility – the points on each landmass furthest from any ocean, and in the case of the oceans themselves, the points furthest from any land.
He has already reached seven of the eight coordinates, including Antarctica, the Arctic Ocean and Point Nemo in the South Pacific. Widely regarded as the most remote location on the planet, the closest humans to anyone standing at Point Nemo are typically the astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
For the Trogir adventure, Brown departed Harrogate at dawn on 28 May, crossing the Channel via LeShuttle before spending the first night near Brussels, Belgium. Day two saw Brown visit the Belgian and Luxembourg national points of inaccessibility before rejoining the motorway to reach his overnight stop in the medieval Bavarian town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
Day three’s southerly route through Munich, into Austria and through Slovenian Alpine passes delivered the journey’s best driving roads, with the beautiful Lake Bled as the night’s overnight destination. The final day was a straight run south through Croatia to Trogir, arriving ahead of the Trailblazer Tour’s start on 1 June.
Brown relied on Ionity’s pan-European high-power charging network throughout the trip which, combined with the hypercar’s 500kW charging capability, means recharging from 0-80 percent takes 19 minutes on compatible infrastructure. The Nevera’s 120kWh battery pack provides a WLTP range of just over 300 miles between charges.
‘With everything else I’ve been doing, I’ve had nowhere near as much time as I wanted to really drive the Nevera,’ Brown said. ‘These four days have just reaffirmed what I already knew about the Nevera; it’s an extraordinary achievement. Among the many adventures I’ve had, it’s one of the most memorable.’
The second annual Trailblazer Tour sees Brown join a contingent of fellow Nevera owners for a multi-day drive through Croatia. Last year’s tour brought together nine cars and culminated at the Roman amphitheatre in Pula.
