“We knew that going into it, we had an awful lot of great help. There are charging stations but only in the cities and of course, most of our journeys weren’t in the cities,” he added, on a more serious note. The infrastructure being very non-existent in the remote parts of Argentina and all the South American countries really.

“We knew before it that it’s certainly not easy to do when you’re in the middle of nowhere. While I have my own opinions about what improvements should be made to help the technology gain popularity, I wanted to know what they thought would have improved their trip-better charging times, better range, more stations? McGregor jokingly answered: “Everything you just said.” “But it was brilliant and I think it will be one of those memories (that will last) forever.”ĭuring the series’ first episode, there was a whole discussion about electric motorcycles being the future despite the current challenges the technology faces. It was only at that point that we started thinking “Whose idea was it?”-and then we realize that it was our idea.” he recalled. There was this sort of range anxiety learning curve that we had to deal with in those first few days. Finally, we got a break in the weather and we headed off and then we realized that we weren’t going to get as far as we thought we were going to get because batteries don’t like the cold. “Suddenly we were down at the bottom of Argentina, we had all our gear on, it was freezing cold, we were delayed three or four days because of a blizzard. We said “Yeah! I think it’s a great idea riding electric motorbikes” but I don’t think we really had an idea of what to expect,” Boorman said. As usual, Ewan and I, we’re always kind of up for a challenge and ready to go. “Being one of the first handful of people to be able to head up and go from the bottom of Argentina to Los Angeles seemed like a great idea. Of course, I was curious to know how this new adventure compared to the previous two and whether it was better or worse than they anticipated.

A long way up documentary