Electric Vehicle Racing
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The electric superbike class of the 2018 Tourist Trophy remained under Mugen's control, after the Japanese team secured its fifth straight win. Seasoned TT competitor Michael Rutter rode the Shinden Nana at a record-breaking pace, attracting attention to the TT Zero despite dwindling competition.
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After getting the official green light from the FIA earlier this year for its Electric Production Car Series (EPCS), sports organizer Electric GT Holdings Inc. has announced a 10-race calendar for the inaugural season of the zero-emission vehicle racing championship.
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Electric GT Holdings Inc. recently announced that its Electric Production Car Series has been sanctioned by the FIA, the governing body for world motorsport. In the series' first season, at least, all EPCS cars will be a modified version of the Tesla Model S P100D.
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Having dropped the WEC last year, Audi has unveiled the car that will lead its motorsports involvement in the world of electric mobility. The FE04 will take to the track in the next Formula E season, making Audi the first big German manufacturer to have a factory offering in the burgeoning category.
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At a relatively low price of US$37,495 before rebates, and with a range of 238 miles, the Bolt certainly has the potential to become one of the more popular EVs. With that in mind, GM recently invited us out to Detroit, to put the speedy little car through its paces on an autocross course.
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An Australian company is working from scratch to build the biggest, baddest electric powertrain ever hooked up to a set of wheels. Top EV Racing is aiming to violently end the dominance of fire-breathing Top Fuel cars at the drag strip, and smash acceleration and landspeed world records to boot.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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