Porsche recently unveiled the Porsche 918 Spyder, a flat-out race car with a plug-in hybrid electric drive train enabling high speed racing, high efficiency and low emissions. This week they’ve gone to the Nürburgring Nordschleife to do what so many have done before, see how fast they can go around…
Another automaker has broken the electric car laptime at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. This is the famed huge track in Germany, the north loop (the Nordschleife) of which is 20 kilometers long (12 miles). The new laptime, announced a week ago, was set by Mercedes-Benz with the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Coupé Electric…
British sports car maker Aston Martin is planning to take on the 41st ADAC Zurich 24 Hours of Nürburgring in Germany — with a hydrogen powered car. The Aston Martin Hybrid Hydrogen Rapide S, based on the company’s new four-seater Rapide S sports car, will become the first hydrogen-powered car to…
Audi is the latest automaker to set an electric car lap speed record at the Nürburgring. This week the company brought a pair of Audi R8 e-tron’s to the fabled 20.8-kilometer (12.92-mile) race track to have a go at the lap record for series production electric cars. They achieved success with a 8:09.099…
