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  • Island X Prix
    Sardinia, Italy
    23-24 October 2021


    Population: 1.64 million
    Time zone:  UTC +2 hours 
    AVG. TEMP (year): 16.05°C
    AVG. SUNLIGHT (year): 7hrs
    AVG. RAINFALL (year): 570mm
    Issue facing: rising temperatures leading to extreme weather conditions and wildfires 


    Extreme E will visit Sardinia, Italy, in October for the Island X Prix following the series’ decision to postpone its originally planned event in Brazil due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation in Latin America.

    Extreme E was built around the ethos of racing electric vehicles in remote environments in an effort to raise awareness for climate change issues and showcase the performance and benefits of low carbon vehicles. However, this crisis is not a problem which only affects remote locations. It is becoming increasingly noticeable in all environments including Sardinia which are suffering from rising temperatures, heatwaves and wildfires. 
    More details on the location will be revealed in due course.  
    Environmental Challenge 

    Scientists are warning of worsening extreme weather patterns if global temperatures continue to rise without solutions being put in place to cut carbon emissions, and that greenhouse gas levels are already too high “for a manageable future for humanity”.

    Rising temperatures and wildfires are now a threat across every continent. In just the last couple of years the world has seen devastation in the Amazon, Australia, Siberia, Canada and the Mediterranean region. With thresholds already crossed by climate change, wildfires are more extensive, more intense, more damaging and last longer.

    Ultimately, the driver of all this is climate change. To reduce the devastation, carbon emissions need to be reduced. If the world continues as it is the carbon emissions by the end of the century will make the wildfires of recent years look modest. 
    Extreme E is at the forefront of the drive towards a better future, a new way of doing things and a world which does not rely on deadly carbon emissions.
    Extreme E Legacy Programme 

    More details to follow.

  • Lac Rose in Senegal on the west coast of Africa is Extreme E’s Ocean race location. The race site at Lac Rose - also known as lake Retba - is approximately 30 kilometers from the senegalese capital, Dakar. Sand bars, salt beds, gravel, rocks and undulations will provide the drivers with real challenges, as they navigate the narrow off-road sand tracks between and around the striking Lac Rose, and the Atlantic Ocean beyond.

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    Lac Rose in Senegal on the west coast of Africa is Extreme E’s Ocean race location. The race site at Lac Rose - also known as lake Retba - is approximately 30 kilometers from the senegalese capital, Dakar. Sand bars, salt beds, gravel, rocks and undulations will provide the drivers with real challenges, as they navigate the narrow off-road sand tracks between and around the striking Lac Rose, and the Atlantic Ocean beyond.

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    THE PROBLEM
    Our oceans are in crisis. Half of coral reefs and a third of mangroves and seagrasses have already been lost, leaving coastal communities vulnerable to erosion, storm damage and food shortages. Crucial fish stocks are on the point of collapse, threatening not only food security for the human population that depends on them but the entire food chain. Plastics, oil spills and agrochemicals are destroying ocean environments and contaminating food chains. Climate change is causing the heating of our oceans, making them more acidic and bleaching coral reefs, melting the ice at the poles and endangering the life which they support. Above all, global warming results in rising sea levels that put some islands and coastlines at risk of disappearing altogether.

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    23-24October 2021

    OCEAN X PRIX
    Lac Rose in Senegal, on the West Coast of Africa, hosted the Ocean X Prix in our inaugural season. The announcement was made during a community beach clean at the proposed race site at Lac Rose – also known as Lake Retba – approximately 30 kilometres from the Senegalese capital, Dakar.

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    EXTREME E LEGACY
    The overall goal is to bring partners together to address the region’s most critical social and environmental issues – rising sea-levels, marine ecosystem degradation and desertification – worsened by overfishing, inadequate waste management and climate change.

    Extreme E is teaming up with local NGO Oceanium to plant one million mangrove trees in Senegal.

    The project will focus on five areas totalling 60 hectares, the equivalent of around 112 football pitches, with the aim of reforesting mangroves, providing education to local populations and improving social cohesion.