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Established in 2002, Drive Around the World (DATW) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit producer of education programs, films and televised series that leverage dramatic, worldwide adventure to raise awareness about key social issues and charitable causes.
10/08/2021
Excited to share the ZERO SOUTH vehicles have rolled to an even brighter location at The Petersen Museum in Los Angeles with Buddy 1 (PTV2) greeting visitors as their first vehicle experience, and Tuezday (PTV1) chillin in the porte cochere with just two inches of clearance for the gear rack. As with anything we do, logistics were tricky but having good people on hand means things get figured out.
01/23/2021
Here's 'Tuezday' shortly after rolling into the world-famous Petersen Museum in Los Angeles. Let's all support our local museums!
12/03/2019
https://www.protocase.com/community/spotlight/drive-around-the-world/
Articles on the new program are beginning to appear and this one hit yesterday. DRIVING SCIENCE is not a movie or tv show, just a grassroots, local program that gives up to 60 students the ultimate ocean adventure with 3 excursions per week for 30 weeks out of the year.
This being 'Giving Tuesday', consider supporting us at http://www.drivearoundtheworld.org/donate
11/21/2019
Please support our new program, DRIVING SCIENCE!
A GoFundMe site has been setup here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/drivingscience
Click here to support Driving Science At Sea organized by Nick Baggarly Nick Baggarly Driving Science At Sea Let me tell you about our program.We are Drive Around the World, producers of "Relevant Adventures." We are working to fu
09/22/2017
Congratulations to our friend, Arnold Schwarzenegger -- finally the proud owner of an electric Hummer! This looks to be an impressive conversion resulting in a better, stronger, faster vehicle. I’ve always thought, by simply driving an electric H1, the Governor can do more to inspire worldwide transition to electric vehicles than any literacy program can hope to achieve. Very exciting!
http://insideevs.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-on-hand-for-presentation-of-worlds-first-electric-hummer-h1/
Arnold Schwarzenegger On Hand For Presentation Of World’s First Electric Hummer H1
This was PTV2's electric arrival at LA City Hall during the 2017 .
05/05/2017
K&N-Sponsored Team Uses a Pair of Hummer H1s to Promote Environmental Responsibity ZERO SOUTH uses battery and biofuel powered Hummer H1s to travel to the South Pole for experiments on climate change. K&N helped convert the stock Hummer to receive power from the electric motor.
A new chapter in our project has begun. Here's some video from the starting line.
04/24/2017
Former Astronaut Leads March for Science in Los Angeles in Electric Hummer Former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman drove a battery-powered Hummer at the front of the March for Science satellite rally in Los Angeles yesterday (April 22).
04/23/2017
This is Today's ZERO SOUTH throwback video. Tomorrow is a big news day. I mean really big.
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ZERO SOUTH Time Capsule Post #016: Some may find this to be an exciting event. This video was taken the first moment PTV1's electric motors came online. Like a heart transplant patient, the vehicle is surrounded by monitors, wires, battery managers and plug-in chargers--and, of course, by our team. It inspired a segment we eventually filmed at Sony called, 'It's Alive!!' You'll see in the ZERO SOUTH season one opening episode, 'HUMMER TO HYBRID' (also known as the vehicle-build episode). This was filmed in March 2012 at Downey Studios and, as you can see, we are still in the early stages of the electric-integration process. Standing around is our excited team and, true to engineering form, a problem is encountered immediately. Fortunately, problems are no match for this group when you have Erik Hatch at the helm and tech heads like Pat Young, Jim Nagashima, Jerry Benson, Michael (T-Rex) Kadie, Logan Brabham and Dave Lovejoy in the room. Like a doctor, T-Rex checks individual battery module voltages while Jim, Jerry, Erik and Pat orchestrate a test to spin the rear electric motor followed by the front motor. Incidentally, Jim, Jerry and Erik worked together at General Motors on a couple vehicle projects you might be familiar with, like the Volt and the original EV-1 electric car--so you could say, these guys have forgotten more about electric vehicles than I'll ever know.
I like this video because it shows how we packaging the various components within the H1's chassis. My main job was in getting everyone together on a regular basis and making sure we had the facilities and parts we needed each week--oh, and if you noticed the bright colors on all the pieces--that's me :-)
How lucky are we to have attracted such wonderful souls with the best mix of talent and disposition? My experience working with this team has been the best professional experience I've ever had. The ZERO SOUTH vehicle is an assemblage of different technologies but there was always someone on the team who had direct, in-depth experience with a component in question. I've never worked with group where there was someone you could go to to overcome any problem or challenge. These guys could find the root cause of a problem quickly--often with little or no investigation--and each one was highly engaged. They would step in and fix things without a lot of chit chat. The process of converting our vehicle to electric with this team was simply exhilarating.
