This buggy, the Tapir, we are driving in this
years WAVE is the result of a wild discussion on the way back from last years
WAVE and as a prototype this years WAVE will be her debut.
Her children will be
enlisted in GAF projects carrying seedlings, water and people and will also be
sold to the general public as an all purpose vehicle for on and off the road as
well as for simply tootling around the countryside. That being said we had to
get up quite early in order to make it to the Mercedes-Benz Museum in
Stuttgart-UntertΓΌrkheim where breakfast would be served. We missed the breakfast but decided to
go into the museum restaurant and enjoyed bagels with smoked salmon, I know, I
said I am a vegetarian but once in awhile I like to have a bit of salmon, and
kick ass coffee which woke all the neurons up gearing us up for the day. We
went back outside, Gordon heading for the Tapir and I for a look around. I
spotted an electric motorcycle that looked like it had popped out of the movie,
Tron! Having been a biker driving a BMW R65 in the past all I could do was gawk
and drool. This was one mean looking bike with an enormously fat rear tire and
looking every bit the speed freak, silently navigating the roads. Yes, I wanted
one but I also wanted to have the Johammer bike which I can only describe as
looking like a giant shrimp ready to take on the world, very cool design and
really quite awesome to behold. Ralf-Martin Tauer manned his drone and
literally flew circles around the entire area giving everyone a beautiful birds
eye view of the whole scene. Finally it was time to leave and head for the
enormous parking lot where we would form a heart and inside, the words:
electric car world record Stuttgart 2014. We were at the top of the second E in
electric. The whole thing was stupendous and we broke the latest Guinness World
Record that was made in Norway (399 e cars) with a total of 507 e cars!!!!
We then headed back to Bietigheim-Bissingen for a
quick lunch n charge after which we all made a heading for Heilbronn. The WAVE
had now begun and the Tapir was digging in and loving it!
