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this is bad assed

Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) has set a new lap record for an electric vehicle (EV) at the legendary 20.8km Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit in Germany.
The TMG EV P001, with 100% electric powertrain and Jochen Krumbach at the wheel, set a new lap record of 7mins 47.794secs to beat the previous lap record, which stood at 9mins 1.338secs, by a very substantial margin.
Using two electric motors, the TMG electric powertrain has a top speed of 260km/h which combined with 800Nm of torque to achieve impressive speeds on the extremely challenging Nordschleife track, which includes significant elevation changes and lengthy flat-out sections.

More info @: European Corporate Media Site - Home (http://corporatemedia.toyota.eu)



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Electric motors and computer controls are going to make internal combustion racing obsolete and not too far off into the future. That is a crazy drop in time.

almost one and a half sec.


no transmission, so all you need is the motor to wind up ......


still will not be winning 24 hrs at Le Mans

I have a racing sim that has this track ..... I cannot get past the 1st semi straight away and turns at the bottom, without crashing :whistle:

The latest electric motorcycles have transmissions. It allows less motor to do the same work for more range.

Brammo Announces New IET Transmission For Electric Motorcycles: Video (http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1059461_brammo-announces-new-iet-transmission-for-electric-motorcycles-video)