He remained in London and retook the test two weeks later, eventually flying out to join up with the team in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic.
He again suffered an accident on the trip, coming off and damaging the bodywork on his bike after narrowly avoiding Boorman who was rapidly slowing down on a motorway in South Africa.
Racing Green Endurance (RGE) was a student-led project at Imperial College London to demonstrate the potential of zero emission cars.
The team drove 26,000 kilometres (16,000 mi) in 136 days down the Pan-American Highway starting in July 2010 in northern Alaska all the way down to Argentina in an open-top electric sportscar, which was filmed by Planta as eight 22-minute episodes for the BBC World News channel.
The vehicles were to be donated to charity projects working in Freetown to reunite families torn apart by the years of civil war in the country, and attempting to raise awareness of modern slavery/human trafficking issues.