Axel Krause
BRUSA Elektronik AG
Neudorf 14
CH-9466 Sennwald

We started in Gams around 06.30 with full batteries. It was dark for the first two hours of the ride, so that we had to spend approx. 2% of battery capacity for the headlights.

We achieved the tunnelling portal of the San Bernardino at sunrise. There we had already used 74% of the battery capacity. At this point, we had covered just some more than the half of the route.

On the first part of the steep downhill run, we could recover about 5% of total capacity through recuperation. From kilometer 140, the downward gradient was smaller so that we could cover the next 20 kms without appreciable consumption. Thanks to the recuperation, we were in Bellinzona, the deepest point of the journey, still on the same status of energy capacity as on the San Bernardino. Meant this, that we covered approx. 50 km "without" energy consumption.

• The curve is virtually identical with the section of height. (If the used kWh would be represented instead of Ah, correspondence would be even better).
• The range is not influenced by high mountains, there the entire potential energy on the one hand through regenerative braking but also through just leave rolling, can be recovered again.
• Nonetheless for optimal range the mountain route of a long route must be not at the end.