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Long Way Up
2020 · TV series · documentary · 1 season
Created by David Alexanian, Charley Boorman, Russ Malkin, Ewan McGregor
The epic motorcycle adventure continues in this third chapter of the Long Way series, as Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman journey to glorious landscapes across South and Central America—on the backs of prototype electric Harley-Davidsons.
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The “Long Way Up” documentary shows the Darién Gap challenge well. https://www.longwayup.com/
There's a long distance motorcycle travel series with Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman called "Long Way Up" where they go from the bottom of South America to LA on electric motorcycles. They had a lot issues with both range and charging the motorbikes in the first few episodes when they were dealing with the cold winter climate in Tierra del Fuego. Once they got far enough north into warmer climates the bikes were charging a lot quicker and getting a lot more range.
Either someone is going to have to come up with an ingenious solution or electric vehicles are going to be of limited use in cold weather locations where space is not abundant enough for garages (quite a lot of European cities). Infrared heating seems quite efficient, maybe the solution lies there.
Based on the article, that Tesla is looking pretty impressive though!
The Long Way Round (2004) - a British television series documenting the 19,000-mile (31,000 km) journey of Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman from London to New York via Eurasia on motorcycles. It is a lot of fun and covers incredible terrain and the trials and triumphs of lesser travelled roads and countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Way_Round
There are an additional two series, Long Way Down (2007), Scotland to Capetown and Long Way Up (2020) over South and North America, both fantastic follow ons! Enjoy.
The Rivian can be charged by towing it, at least that was the case in their prototype car shown off in Long Way Up (Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman's Apple TV show where they (and their support crew) took 2 electric motorbikes up South and Central America)
I'm from Europe as well, and I've seen them prominently featured last year in the documentary series "Long Way Up" on Apple TV+. Nice series btw, if you like beautiful scenery.
Cookie wall, so no idea what it says, but Rivian was a major player in the excellent Ewan McGregor documentary “Long Way Up” (2020)
There’s this documentary I really enjoyed watching called “Long Way Up” where Ewan McGregor (plus another actor I was not familiar with) rode from Tierra del Fuego to Los Angeles on electric motorcycles.
They talk a lot about the pros/cons of going electric, and there are issues with like cold temperatures affecting battery performance at the start.
But I also found that I just really enjoyed the show even excluding that.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Way_Up
Rivians were featured in the Apple TV+ documentary series A Long Way Up which was pretty good for those looking for travel/adventure stuff.
They drive the first two Rivian's in the Long Way Up documentary with Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman who ride early Harley Davidson Livewire motorcycles.
All three are either prototypes or in pre-production, you can't really buy any of them right now. They did have prototype Rivians for Long Way Up[1] as support vehicles.
Keep the old Land Rover or Subaru and check again in a year or two for an actual EV 4x4.
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12824922/
I've been watching the Long Way Up motorcycle travelogue series with Ewan McGregor and Charlie Borman on AppleTV+.
They're doing the trip from the tip of South America all the way to Los Angeles on a pair of prototype electric Harley Davidsons. The support crew is in a pair of prototype Rivian pickup trucks.
The Rivians have a "tow to recharge" mode that they've used several times already in the first half dozen episodes.
The show is great and I'm as fascinated by their dedication to do the trip on electric bikes (the first parts of the trip were in freezing and sub-freezing temps in areas with long distances between grid electricity availability) as I am by the scenery and their narration.
Anyway, sorry for the tangent, but the title reminded me of the series. I hope it escapes AppleTV+ so that non-Apple folks can watch it at some point.