Electric Vehicle Racing

​Panoz, the American sports car manufacturer that's a key player in the Nissan-backed DeltaWing project, recently partnered with parent company Green4U Technologies to develop a new electric race car. Known as the GT-EV, plans call for it to compete in long-distance endurance races.

Spark Racing has delivered renders of its 2018 model FIA Formula E racer. The result is one fine looking car, with twice the battery capacity of the current Formula E class. But why aren't we seeing thousand-horsepower electric beasts out there challenging F1 for lap records?

Speedleague has signed an engineering partnership with race supplier STARD to create a new electric rallycross series called E/Racing. The series will begin later this year with five stops included in the North American circuit. The first race kicks off in October.

The electric vehicle world speed record has remained steady since the Venturi Buckeye Bullet 2.5 electric streamliner set a 307.7-mph (495 km/h) mark in 2010. That changed on Monday, when the VBB-3 sped to a new electric vehicle record just over 341.4 mph (549.4 km/h).​

If you had to guess the street-legal electric car with the best quarter-mile time, the Tesla Model S P85D or Rimac Concept One might immediately pop to mind. What wouldn't pop to mind - the Enfield 8000. But that's the right answer .. well, kind of.

Electric vehicles were the story at last year's Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, with the eO PP03 beating out the Rimac E-Runner for a 1-2 electric finish. Rimac and Nobuhiro Tajima are teaming up again and hoping to come out on top.

Jaguar recently announced that it is returning to racing, with its entry into the FIA Formula E Championship starting in Fall 2016. Formula E is the world's first global single-seater championship for electric-powered cars, and will be in its third season when Jaguar joins the series.

The March CE Primary School is located just a few minutes' walk from Rolls-Royce headquarters. Last year, the two parties teamed up on a Rolls-Royce-badged electric go-kart, and this year they've come up with a more refined design named "March 2 Glory."

The FIA has announced that ten teams will compete in the second year of Formula E racing, while eight manufacturers will supply powertrains. The competition is set to heat up during the 2015/2016 race calendar, with teams being allowed to develop the vehicles for the first time.

A 3D-printed partially-solar-powered, battery electric car is all set to hit the racetrack at Shell’s Eco-marathon Asia later this month.The urban concept car called the NTU Venture (NV) 8 can reportedly achieve a top speed of about 60 km/h (37 mph).

Accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h (62 mph) in just 1.785 seconds, an electric vehicle from Switzerland dubbed "Grimsel" has claimed a new world record for acceleration in electric cars, smashing the previous record by more than 300ths of a second.

Boutique automotive manufacturer Venturi revealed an updated version of its 2010 America concept at this year's Paris Motor Show. The concept car combines the high performance and handling of a sports car with the ever-fun design of a sand-hungry dune buggy.