Showing posts with label estonia longest ice-way. Show all posts
Showing posts with label estonia longest ice-way. Show all posts

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Top Gear in Estonia!

Top Gear came to Estonia to test electrical car on the ice road.

"Which is why we're currently in Estonia, a country enjoying uncharacteristically balmy winter temperatures of minus 14 degrees Celsius. And seeing as water and electricity make such a stimulating combination, we thought we'd take in some Baltic ice roads, which amount to six floating motorways between 4 and 10 km long, allowing residents of the islands that pockmark Estonia's coast to travel to the mainland more quickly than ferries allow."

Read more here: http://www.topgear.com/uk/photos/Driving-across-the-sea-in-an-Ampera-2013-03-01

Monday, June 13, 2011

Europe's longest ice road

Europe's longest ice road - A BBC news about the harsh winter and the longest ice road in Europe. I personally have had hard time explaining to some people that seas actually CAN freeze up during winter and it IS possible to cross it in a car.