Toyota Racing up’s its hybrid race car game with a revised TS030 Hybrid car. Okay, it’s got a gasoline engine in it so why are we covering this on ElectricRaceNews? It’s because of the hybrid half of the machine, with Supercapacitors boosting its performance and enabling the TS030 to perform…
In the 6-Hours of Bahrain, in the FIA World Endurance Championship series, Audi won the 1st and 2nd podium spots with the Audi R18 e-tron quattro. The team had switched to an all-hybrid team for the Bahrain race, and while the regular Audi R18 race car was giving excellent results, the…
Toyota Hybrid Racing has racked up the teams first win in the FIA World Endurance Championship race, the 6 Hours of Sao Paulo, this weekend. The win was with the TS030 Hybrid race car, a car that has been in only 3 races so far, and which already won a…
At the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race, Audi made a historic achievement with the first hybrid cars to win that race. While the title of this site is Electric Race News, we’ll mark this achievement under the rubric of “Electrified Vehicle Racing” because it was an electrified…
Rumors surfaced yesterday based on a report in a Japanese motorsports magazine that Toyota was planning to enter the Super GT race series with a GT300 class car based on a Prius. Yup. The Prius GT300. Rather than start with Toyota’s GT86 sports car, they’re starting with a Prius. Obviously…
The Peugeot 908 Hybrid 4, which was unveiled at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show in March, made its first genuine on-track test at Estoril, Portugal on October 11, 2011. “Our aim wasn’t to but a lot of kilometres on the clock, but to verify that all the chief functions performed,” reports Peugeot Sport’s…
