Toyota aims to win WEC with revised TS030 hybrid race car

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…

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Toyota electric race car sets EV lap record at Nürburgring

Toyota’s mission in life isn’t just making wildly popular sedans for the masses. Another division, Toyota Motorsports, exists to build fast cars. Toyota announced today they just set a record lap time on the Nürburgring Nordschleife for an electric vehicle. The Nürburgring (or Nürburg Ring) is a famous race track…

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