2011 Award Ceremony
Since 2008, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Awards have been presented to individuals who have made an exceptional commitment towards saving our planet. This event took place on Friday 7th October 2011, at 6.30 p.m., in the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
This is during this ceremony that Venturi presented the Antarctica, an electric vehicle specifically developed to be used under extreme conditions of Antarctic.
After his journey in Antarctica which objective was to evaluate the impact of global warming on this continent, HSH Prince Albert II has imagined and initiated the first experimental project of electric vehicle in Antarctica which is, furthermore, based on 100% of renewable energy.
This very high-tech project was entrusted to Venturi Automobiles and supported by Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation in partnership with the International Polar Foundation. As a main initiative, it could allow, in the future, all stations based in Antarctica to introduce a clean and economic way of transportation compared to the environmental impact and cost of the fuel currently used.
