ZERO RACE - around the world in 80 days with Zero Emission Vehicles - in Brussels on Saturday August 21st

The Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign and Bruxelles-Environement invite you to the official welcome of the Zero Emissions Race in Brussels, Saturday 21st August at the Autoworld, Cinquantenaire Park, from 14.00 to 18.00.

The ZERO Race is an 80 day race around the world with 100% electric cars, running on 100% renewable energies, starting on 16 August in Geneva, Switzerland. The ZERO Race is a modern adventure, propelled by renewable energies, with trend-setting technology, organised by Swiss solar pioneer Louis Palmer.

Each participating ZERO Race team must contribute to renewable energy production from their homeland to feed into the public grid, so this energy can be withdrawn for the vehicles en route. The ZERO Race is not only about speed, but about other judgment criteria as well that include reliability, energy efficiency, utility to every day life, design and safety.

After the start in Geneva the ZERO Race will cross Switzerland, where interested spectators can admire the teams and their vehicles. The way then leads to Brussels, before heading to Vienna, Moscow and Shanghai. With ships the cars travel to Vancouver and there onward, the ZERO Race will travel on the west coast of North America all the way to Cancun, Mexico. There, the vehicles will be on show at the United Nations World Climate Conference. Then, the vehicles will be shipped again to Portugal, and traverse south-west Europe to complete the global journey.

The success of ZERO Race depends on the number of people reached who will be inspired enough to take action towards a more sustainable way of life. The ZERO Race is very much about showing realistic ways towards a cleaner and greener future for the planet and its people.

The Zero Emissions Race is a project of the European Commission's Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign.

Programme of the afternoon:

14:30 Press conference inside the Autoworld (Mahy Room), in presence of the Brussels Minister for Environment, Energy, Urban renovation, the European Commissioner for Energy (tbc), and Mr. Louis Palmer, Zero Race director
15:30 Entrance of the cars in the Autoworld
16:00 - 18:00 Zero Race cars accessible to the general public

For more information contact

Louis Palmer, Zero Race Tour Director at louis.palmer@zero-race.com, cell +41 79 3438801
Julianna Priskin, Tour Coordinator, Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility at julianna.priskin@zero-race.com

Info: www.zero-race.com - www.sustenergy.org

We look forward to welcoming you at the Autoworld!

Best regards,

Pierre-Loïc Nihoul

Public relations Manager On behalf of the European Commission pr@sustenergy.org www.sustenergy.org