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3 Jun 2019

Belarusian e-vehicles join Electric Marathon

MINSK, 3 June (BelTA) - Belarusian e-cars have joined the Electric Marathon in the capacity of unofficial participants, BelTA has learned.

“Our marathon is made up of 30 stages. Three of them are in Belarus: Brest - Mir, Mir - Minsk, Minsk - Gomel. Our race pursues educational purposes. Safety is important for us. Everything must be according to the road traffic rules,” said the chief organizer of the marathon, Honorary Consul of Monaco in Estonia, Vice President of the National Olympic Committee of Estonia, two-time Olympic medalist in hammer throw Juri Tamm.

The marathon participants lauded the good infrastructure for charging electric vehicles in Belarus. "We agreed that next year we will definitely come back to Belarus, meet with scientists. You have very good ideas for the development of electric vehicles,” Juri Tamm noted.

The Electric Marathon kicked off in Monte Carlo on 27 May. The 4,300km rally goes through: the Principality of Monaco – France – Italy - San Marino – Croatia – Hungary – Slovakia – Poland – Belarus - Russia. The rally will finish in St Petersburg on 6 June.

The rally crossed the Belarusian-Polish border on 2 June and arrived in Minsk on 3 June. Today the participants of the rally visited the national range to test electric cars of the United Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and got familiar with an exhibition of Belarusian electric transport.

The marathon aims to draw attention to the issues of environmental protection, to promote e-transport and contribute to the development of the electric vehicle charging stations networks.