Electric Vehicle Racing

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cupra is preparing to get dirty in as clean a way as possible. Not only is its all-new Tavascan Extreme E Concept motivated by pure electric power, but it incorporates components and solutions designed to be flexible, adaptable and sustainable.

Audi has developed the range-extended electric rally car it will run in Dakar 2022. The 671-hp RS Q e-tron launches forward on dual electric axles and uses a turbo engine-generator to maintain drive power through gruelling off-road competition

"A racer partly driven like a car and partly flown like a fighter jet" – that's how Lotus describes the new E-R9. The futuristic Le Mans design study debuts as a sleek, aircraft-inspired race car with electric drive and fast-morphing body panels.

Two things we know about the GMC Hummer EV: it's electric and it's born for off-roading. GMC looks to emphasize both points by teaming up for an Extreme E bid. A Hummer EV-inspired racer will tackle off-road race courses from Greenland to Patagonia.

Looking over the dramatic, retro-inspired "hyperlux" curves of the Hispano Suiza Carmen, the very last word to come to mind is "off-road." But Hispano Suiza announced this week that it plans to go full speed ahead with Extreme E off-road racing.

An extremely odd project is planning to hold a remote-controlled car race next October ... On the surface of the Moon. What's more, the two racecars will be partially designed by high school kids, and McLaren P1 designer Frank Stephenson is involved.