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Peugeot EX1 Sets Electric Car Lap Record At Nuerburgring

Posted by timothy on from the zippidee-hoo-ha dept.

liqs8143 writes "Peugeot EX1, the all-electric concept car, now holds the electric car lap record at Germany's Nürburgring circuit. The car was unveiled at the 2010 Paris Motor Show, and has already broken half a dozen speed records up till now. Despite wet weather, the EX1 broke the existing record with a time of 9 minutes, 1.338 seconds, beating the previous record set by a modified MINI E electric car by almost 50 seconds. The 340 horsepower EX1 averaged an impressive 85.9 miles per hour during the lap."

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  1. Re:Charge time. by jo_ham · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oh I don't know, but it's hardly a negative - how many laps can a petrol engined vehicle that does 10 mpg before you have to refill it?

    At full tilt, a Merc SLR can drain its tank in about 20 minutes, as shown by Top Gear during one of their challenges, and funnily enough they then *didn't* show the production team pushing it towards a garage by hand with a "oh dear, just look what happened" voice over, unlike their "unbiased" footage of them pushing the Tesla Roadster back into the garage by hand after testing it on the track, even though the computer logs in the car showed that it never went below 10-15% charge and would have been able to easily drive under its own power back to a charge point.

    Sure, it will still take longer to recharge an electric vehicle right now compared to refilling a tank of combustible hydrocarbons, but a high-capacity power feed and improving charge systems will narrow that down all the time.

  2. Re:85.9? by Charcharodon · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Go to Europe some time. As much as they like to play the cool card they have just as many hicks, urban trash, and all around loosers just like good ol U S of A.

    Just smile and ask them how they like spending $9 a gallon for gas for their 4 cylinder micros.