Electric Vehicle Racing

When Mercedes first unveiled its AMG GT XX concept with three axial-flux motors, it had enthusiasts drooling. Only one thing remained: proving its mettle. With more than two dozen world records under its belt, it’s safe to say the car has done just that.

The Nürburgring record was last set by Chevy’s Corvette ZR1 and ZR1X, snatching the record from Ford’s Mustang GTD. It was only a matter of time before Ford came back for vengeance. Who would have thought it would be on a Ford Transit?

McMurtry made its US debut to the crowds at the Laguna Seca circuit in Monterey this week, racing the third annual Reverse Corkscrew Hillclimb with Max Chilton back in the pilot seat. The car and driver duo easily set two records in the process.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.