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Home Posts tagged "Electric Racing"

Tag: Electric Racing

No, another high end electric sports car will not kill Tesla Motors

June 28, 2019 June 28, 2019

We’ve seen this story come out again and again: An electric supercar comes out that is faster than the fastest Tesla car. Therefore Tesla is dead meat because this other car creams Tesla in 0-60 miles/hr times. The problem with that story line is that anybody saying this is completely…

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Michael Rutter sets TT Zero lap record 121.91 miles/hr at Isle of Man

June 6, 2019 June 6, 2019

Today during TT Week, Mugen’s riders Michael Rutter and John McGuinness took both the #1 and #2 positions, with Michael Rutter breaking the 120 miles/hr lap speed threshold and setting a new TT Zero lap record. Along the way John McGuinness had a fantastic speed at the Sulby Speed Trap,…

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Cameron Rogers retakes Laguna Seca electric car laptime record with Tesla Model 3 Performance

September 16, 2018 September 16, 2018

The electric car lap time record at Laguna Seca International Raceway is changing hands like crazy this summer.  On September 14, 2018, Cameron Rogers took a Tesla Model 3 w/ Performance Package to Laguna Seca, seeking to reclaim the lap time record he’d set earlier this summer.  Subsequent to Rogers’…

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Lucid Motors definitively smashes Laguna Seca lap speed record with production-intent car

September 6, 2018 September 6, 2018

In early August, Lucid Motors brought a Lucid Air prototype to Laguna Seca International Raceway and definitively smashed the standing lap-speed records set with the Jaguar I-Pace, Tesla Model S and Tesla Model 3.  The record was set during testing sessions at the race track, it was driven by a Lucid…

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Jaguar i-Pace barely beats electric car lap record at Laguna Seca, set by a Tesla Model 3 at REFUEL 2018

August 23, 2018 August 23, 2018

The yearly REFUEL electric car racing event is sort of in the news today.  Jaguar issued a press release about the Jaguar i-Pace.  While saying the car will appear at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion and the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, August 24 – 26, Jaguar said an i-Pace driven…

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Volkswagen I.D. R smashes overall record at Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

June 24, 2018 June 24, 2018

In 2013 the overall Motorcycle record at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb was smashed by a Lightning Motorcycles LS-218 prototype electric motorcycle electric motorcycle ridden Carlin Dunne.  That same year the overall record was smashed by a gasoline powered car driven by Sebastien Loeb, overshadowing the breaking of the…

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Is the REFUEL event at risk if Monterey County changes Laguna Seca management agreement?

August 6, 2015 August 6, 2015

It appears the Laguna Seca Raceway is about to change management because The Sports Car Racing Association of the Monterey Peninsula (SCRAMP) appears to have run into financial trouble.  SCRAMP sent out an open letter today calling on the Monterey County Board of Supervisors to conduct an open process to…

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Solar powered racing to educate high school students about solar power, electric vehicles and engineering

July 22, 2015 July 26, 2015

In the iPhone age we’re not repairing things or building things from scratch any longer.  Manufacturers build us preconfigured gizmos and do their best to make them opaque boxes we can’t open or hack on.  That would put us at the mercy of the manufacturers, and leave dumbing down society to…

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Jeff Clark riding electric motorcycle in 2015 Pikes Peak Hill Climb

June 29, 2015 June 29, 2015

 

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First EV to win Pikes Peak Hill Climb outright (Rhys Millen 2015)

June 29, 2015 June 18, 2022

This record-setting run was a first for EV’s to take the outright win at Pikes Peak.  The car lost half its power halfway up the mountain, and still gave an outstanding time.  The driver may have been unhappy, but we’re elated.

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TT ZERO 2015 will have Mugen, Victory, Sarolea, U Nottingham, Brunel Univ

June 9, 2015 June 10, 2015

Ahead of tomorrows TT ZERO race, the final 2015 TT ZERO qualifying was held today.  Thanks to Mugen not participating today, the grid had only seven bikes with the Victory Motorcycle bikes coming in fastest with a 110 miles/hr lap for Lee Johnston, and a 108 miles/hr lap for Guy…

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Mugen and John McGuinness upping the voltage for 2015 TT Zero

June 8, 2015 June 8, 2015

   

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Victory Motorcycles reworks Brammo’s Empulse RR’s for TT ZERO

May 30, 2015 May 30, 2015

The 2015 TT ZERO electric motorcycle race is coming up — the electric companion race to all the gas bike racing during the famous Isle of Man Tourist Trophy week.  A new face is having a go at the TT ZERO, Victory Motorcycles, a subsidiary of Polaris Industries.  Polaris recently bought out…

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Victory Electric Race Prototype Preps for Isle of Man TT

May 29, 2015 June 18, 2022

For the 2015 TT ZERO, Victory Motorcycles has reworked the two Empulse RR’s for the Isle of Man and hired a couple top racers to ride them.

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2009-10 & the TTXGP as the Launching Point for electric motorcycle racing

May 28, 2015 May 28, 2015

Back in 2009, three electric motorcycle racing events formed the basis of several years of electric motorcycle racing.   I was privileged enough to attend two of the 2009 events, and form a relationship with the TTXGP series that let me attend several years of electric motorcycle racing events in North America…

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