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McMurtry made its US debut to the crowds at the famed Laguna Seca circuit in Monterey, CA this week, racing the third annual Reverse Corkscrew Hillclimb with Max Chilton back in the pilot seat. The car and driver duo easily set not one, but two records… Continue reading Insane hypercar absolutely sucks its way into the record books
The National Association for Stock Car Racing and Swiss multinational ABB have partnered to “push the boundaries of electrification” in the sport and beyond. The first fruit was revealed at the Chicago Street Race – a 1,000-kW EV prototype racer.Contin… Continue reading NASCAR stuffs 1,340 horsepower of electric motors into prototype racer
As Season 9 of the ABB Formula E World Championships comes to a close in London, a modified Gen3 electric race car has smashed a two-year-old indoor speed record set by Porsche with a top speed of 218.71 km/h.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, Trans… Continue reading Modified Formula E Gen3 race car sets new indoor land speed world record
It’s often the case that technologies developed for racing vehicles trickle down to the wider automotive market. With an endurance race in its sights, a team of more than 30 students at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands has d… Continue reading Student team breaks the 4-minute barrier for EV fast-charging
About a year ago, Ford revived the Supervan for the electric era with an absolutely audacious 2,000-hp quad-motor bullet van built to deliver all world records, no packages. It described the vaguely E-Transit Custom-related Supervan 4 as a rolling labo… Continue reading Ford’s 1,400-hp electric SuperVan 4.2 will basically fly up Pikes Peak
The A290, whose production prototype is being called the A290_β (“A290 Beta”), is the first of three “Dream Garage” vehicles coming from Alpine. The all-electric sports car design fits (fittingly) in the B-segment.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, … Continue reading Alpine introduces new A290_β electric show car
Back in 2020, Ford Performance brought some serious voltage to the long-running Mustang Cobra Jet series, revealing the all-electric Mustang Cobra Jet 1400. It followed up a year later by driving the car to an NHRA electric vehicle quarter-mile world r… Continue reading 1800-hp electric Ford Mustang Super Jet to electroshock record books
While electric hypercar manufacturers have taken to breaking things down to the hundredth of a second to distinguish acceleration times around or below the 2-second mark, university teams have dropped things by full tenths down into the mid 1-second area with track-only electric roadsters. In 2016, the Swiss Grimsel set the Guinness World Record for fastest 0-100 km/h electric car acceleration at 1.513 seconds. Now, the GreenTeam from the University of Stuttgart brings the record back to Germany by breaking the 1.5-sec mark.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: World’s Fastest, World Records, Guinness, Electric Vehicle Racing, Electric Vehicles
Continue reading Don’t blink: EV scorches 0-62 in under 1.5 seconds for world record
The UK really loves itself some high-performance Ford Transit vans. Ford’s to blame for that, having sent that particular ball rolling over 50 years ago via the first of three generations of race-derived Supervans. The Blue Oval took some time off and … Continue reading 2,000-hp Ford Supervan hits Goodwood like an electric earthquake
Much faster, lighter and more powerful than ever before, the Gen3 Formula E racer also takes regenerative braking to the next level. Unveiled by the FIA today in Monaco, the new car runs a dual-motor powertrain that captures so much regenerative brakin… Continue reading Third-generation Formula E car will run 40% of a race on regen power