Updates from the world of electric and hybrid racing cars, bikes and even boats and planes.
Leading IndyCar outfit Dragon Racing has today signed an agreement with series promoters Formula E Holdings to become the fourth team to enter the FIA Formula E Championship – the new fully-electric race series beginning in September 2014. Dragon Racing is owned by media and publishing entrepreneur Jay Penske, with its headquarters based in Los […]
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Ho Chi Fung now leads the European Championship after taking first place in Le Mans today, while Sam West and Rhalf Lo Turco took second and third respectively. Chi Fung didn’t have the greatest start and lost his position to West at the first corner but it wasn’t long before his AC-motored machine put him
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Allan McNish heads for the next round of the FIA World Endurance Championship in Japan next month having crucially extended his points lead yesterday (SUN). Dumfries-born McNish plus co-drivers Tom Kristensen (Den) and Loïc Duval (F) brought their hybrid-diesel Audi R18 e-tron quattro home 23.617secs ahead of their nearest challengers in a Six Hour race
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The Nissan LEAF NISMO RC was one of many models on hand at the Nissan 360 motoring event in southern California, drawing media and car fans from around the globe over its month-long run. Among the many Nissan executives that visited 360 was Chief Operating Officer Toshiyuki Shiga, who took the all-electric racing car for
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TOYOTA Racing heads into unchartered territory this weekend with its first visit to the United States, for the inaugural Six Hours of Circuit of the Americas, the fifth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship. Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi and Stéphane Sarrazin drive the #8 TS030 HYBRID in Austin before joining a two-car entry at
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A leader in electric vehicles with its Z.E. range and boasting unique expertise in motorsport, Renault is entering the new FIA Formula E Championship. The ten teams racing in the competition, which kicks off in September 2014, will drive the Spark-Renault SRT_01E single-seater, co-designed with Renault Sport and revealed to the world at Frankfurt. A
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Round five of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC)at Austin in the U.S. state of Texas has a particularly high significance for Audi. In America, the brand’s sports car program began 14 years ago, Audi won the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) nine times in succession and the Sebring 12 Hours eleven times – most
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Japanese fans will have the first opportunity to see the revolutionary Nissan ZEOD RC in action when the car makes its public on-track debut at this year’s Fuji Speedway round of the FIA World Endurance Championship. Running in pure electric mode, the Nissan ZEOD RC will undertake demonstration runs on October 18, 19 and 20
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Technology entrepreneur, former UK science minister and racing driver Lord (Paul) Drayson is bringing his spectacular Drayson B12 69/EV electric Le Mans Prototype racing car to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in an attempt to raise the sub-1000kg electric car world land speed record. Drayson Racing achieved a 204.2mph average speed (subject to FIA
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DHL has today announced a multiyear global partnership with the FIA Formula E Championship, the world’s first fully-electric car racing series beginning in September 2014. The new Championship features single-seater open-wheel cars powered exclusively by electric energy. The announcement was made in conjunction with the unveiling ceremony of the official Spark-Renault SRT_01E Formula E car
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