At an altitude of 5,816 meters with the electric car

VW ID.4 GTX reaches the next e-mobility record 

Professional driver Rainer Zietlow reaches a Guinness world record at a height of 5,816 meters

“Higher, faster, further” instead of “being there is everything”! When professional driver Rainer Zietlow drives an electric car, he wants to break records. This piece of iron has inspired him in 2021 to first accept “further” as a challenge: after more than 57,000 kilometers and almost 100 days in a VW ID.4 through the US, he has long distance record put. Never before has a driver in an electric car traveled longer and further in one country. He made another attempt in May 2022. This time the vertical challenge has fascinated him and he has traveled to South Bolivia to climb the highest motorable mine road in the world, the volcano in Uturuncu, with an ID.4 GTX: an adventure in thin air on sandy and stony paths .

Rainer Zietlow has achieved it! He manages to reach a height of 5,816 meters and achieves another Guinness world record.

“With this challenge we want to prove to the world that electric mobility is capable of top performance, even at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters above sea level,” Zietlow said after his victory.  

Of HARTING we have also actively supported this challenge. Based on our experience as a tier-one supplier of VW charging cables and original equipment manufacturer for the car charging cables, we have secured the power supply for the ID.4 GTX. With his groundbreaking ride through the Bolivian Andes, Rainer Zietlow once again sends a message worth supporting, that we must absolutely fight climate change.