Volkswagen makes racing history with record-breaking electric race car

[rangerrebew]

7:57:148—Volkswagen makes racing history with record-breaking electric race car
Electric power beats the internal combustion engine fair and square in major motorsport.

Jonathan M. Gitlin - 6/29/2018, 7:30 AM
 

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—All it took was two visits to the annual Pikes Peak International Hill Climb for it to steal our hearts. The second-oldest motor race in the United States—only the Indy 500 predates it—is unlike virtually every other professional motorsports event we cover. And this year's edition proved to be novel in its own right.

Last weekend, we were on hand to witness French racing driver Romain Dumas and car maker Volkswagen stamp their authority on all 12.4-miles (19.99km) of the course, destroying the course's existing record and setting the first sub-eight minute time in race history. What makes the feat even more interesting around Ars is that the car in the record books is all-electric, marking perhaps the first time in major motorsport that a battery electric vehicle has beaten the internal combustion engine fair and square.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/757148-volkswagen-makes-racing-history-with-record-breaking-electric-race-car/

[Frank Cannon]

This is a generally stupid article written by a fairly stupid Millennial. We all know that electric motors are faster than combustion engines. It's a matter of science. The problem is that they have no range. Let's see Volkswagon put this shit box into the Rolex 24.

[Oceander]

This is not the first time an electric has beaten an internal combustion fair and square.