Electric Vehicle Racing
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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.
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With an endurance race in its sights, a team of more than 30 students at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands has developed a technology that's allowed a 250-km battery pack to be fast-charged in under four minutes.
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About a year ago, Ford revived the Supervan with an absolutely audacious 2,000-hp quad-motor electric bullet of a Supervan 4. It's now reworked the van into a 1,400-hp ultra-aero 2.0 version aimed directly at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.
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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.
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As if the all-electric Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 Ford revealed in 2020 wasn't monstrous enough, it's now upgraded that world-record prototype into the Mustang Super Cobra Jet 1800. It hopes to best its own record with the reworked 1,800-hp e-dragster.
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In 2016, the Swiss Grimsel hyper-mini set the Guinness World Record for fastest 0-100 km/h electric car acceleration at 1.513 seconds. Now, GreenTeam from the University of Stuttgart brings the record back to Germany by breaking the 1.5-sec mark.
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The UK really loves itself some high-performance Ford Transit vans. Ford started that particular ball rolling over 50 years via three generations of race-derived Supervan. Now it's pushing the bar higher with a 2,000-hp quad-motor electric Supervan.
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Much faster, lighter and more powerful than ever before, the Gen3 Formula E racer also takes regenerative braking to the next level. Unveiled today in Monaco, it runs a dual-motor setup that captures so much stopping power it won't need rear brakes.
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The Extreme E electric off-road race series is either going to expand to include an Extreme H hydrogen-powered zero-emissions race series, or flat-out switch to hydrogen-only from 2024. It's quite an announcement from a one-year-old championship.
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Nissan unveiled a high-performance conceptual electric vehicle called the Ariya Single Seater Concept. The Ariya demonstrates how an all-electric road car powertrain could be used in a custom-built racing car chassis.
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The race for a better li-ion battery cathode has many entities scrambling for just the right mix of materials. Johnson Matthey has an energy-dense formula it believes superior and will test it in the high-demand laboratory of electric car racing.
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It was just over a year ago that we first heard about the eSkootr Championship (eSC), a planned race series for high-speed electric scooters. The standard vehicle that will be used by all the teams has now been announced – the 100-km/h (62-mph) S1-X eSkooter.
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