Category: motorsport

VW’s electric ID.R racer smashed a Nürburgring efficiency record

Post author By Randall
Post date August 3, 2019
Categories In electric car, electric vehicle, ev, gear, green, id.r, motorsport, nordschleife, nurburgring, nurburgring nordschleife, racing, Tech, Transportation, volkswagen, vw

[ad_1] Part of this came through energy regeneration at the brakes. The ID.R produced 9.2 percent of the energy it needed for the lap through recovery. Even the generator providing electricity for the ID.R was eco-friendly, running on near-emissions free glycerin instead of gasoline. As is often the case with cars like this, VW isn’t […]

Watch VW’s electric race car smash a 20-year-old Goodwood record

Post author By Randall
Post date July 6, 2019
Categories In electric car, electric vehicle, ev, gear, goodwood, goodwood festival of speed, green, id.r, motorsport, racing, Tech, Transportation, Video, volkswagen, vw

[ad_1] The trick, as you might imagine, was to save weight. Unlike the Pikes Peak variant, the ID.R at Goodwood was optimized for a “sprint” — it carried a smaller battery pack tuned for a brief but fierce assault up the 1.16-mile hill. There won’t be too many complaints given that an F1 car set […]