Toyota Nürburgring electric vehicle record setting lap - in car footage

[daniel0731ex]

Give me electric or put CVT on ICE.

[corvettesolos]

I would love to see electric technology advance and flourish in america; it's essentially our only option to cut dependence on foreign oil....but nothing will ever replace the sound of internal combustion...

[darinsargent25]

This is one very "macabre" video. =p

[thelambodudes]

That's fast.

[jackiecastro410]

Your video is a favorite on Kosovo

[stypkata85]

torque !.

[fairyheli2]

how many volts?

[landinho62]

credo! dizer que não é emocionante correr com ev não é verdade ,mais é aterrorizante! escultar as derrapagens dos pneus é sinistro. imaginemos com uma carga de 4kw de um reator a frio e-cat se colocarmos aerofólios ele soba pra lua.

[TOPRAKALPAY]

manyaq be sheyyy ;)

[severrnijKGU]

i really hate the idea of the gas engine exiting the track in any way. but 8 minutes on the ring is not shabby. ill shit sharp cornered bricks when they can keep 7 minutes up for hours at a time.

[VideoVegetable]

Now if we could just get this much performance on half as much power some how. Maybe with a motor that uses brushless design and can return some of the power it uses without sacrificing too much torque?

[leobusti]

I'm not against electric cars... they are the future and i want my kids to breath a better quality air too... but use it on a racetrack and say that sounds exciting?

There is NO WAY a electric car race can be as exciting as a REAL engine.

Tell me what sounds more exciting... watch this.....

/watch?v=bbmDKZ78MOU

[nmag323]

R.I.P. racing engine sound, you will be missed

[TreinKub]

Electric motors have one big problem.... Batteries

[VideoVegetable]

@TreinKub At least for now they do.

[mptrax]

Could you imagine how fast can be this WONDER with a Variable Flux Engine ? My God !!!! Too fast for this truck !!!

[CptFUNK1]

Just imagine how people felt transitioning from horses to gas-powered automobiles back in the day. I'm sure some objected to it, but it eventually caught on. The same will happen for electric vehicles.

[saxmanchiro]

Bye bye pistons and hello brushes and batteries. I'm ready, are you? Scary acceleration from electric motors and much more efficient use of energy than fuel.

[totto210]

21% slower than the speed stefan bellof and porsche 956(the best car ever)

[MrHousey36]

His name was Earrrrrnie - and he drove the fastest milk float in the west..

[vaderconstantine]

is there a record for Ariel Atom at Nürburgring Nordschleife?

[arguemental]

There were vinyl records, then tapes, then CDs now MP3s. We had CRT TV-sets, now there are LCDs, Plasmas, LED. There are almost no classic cameras anymore, all replaced wit digital. Maybe also in the Moto World a new era is about to begin very soon. The era of electric cars. Is it dissapointing? After watching this clip I think its necessary because the progress is unstoppable. We we'll get used to it very fast. Maybe we won't say 'park a car' but 'plug a car'. Time will tell.

[wtfbollos]

AWESOME!!

[DidItForebode]

Eerie noise; and it also looks like he's got a lot of understeer to contend with...

[whynodd]

@DidItForebode I think its because the electric motor of that car is so quiet that you can hear the tires. And a less agressive setup (less oversteer) may save a pretty expensive prototype ;)

[Bluepeter62]

This was 20.66% slower than the speed record of Stefan Bellof 1983. This means electric race cars have now reached almost 80% of the performance of combustion engines, this is quite remarkable.

[armorgeddon]

@Bluepeter62: He probably will have to stop every lap to recharge the batteries, which will take hours, while Bellofs Porsche could do many laps on a tank of fuel and he would be re-fueled in a minute or so. So it's nowhere near 80% and if you consider, that we are comparing 80s technology to todays e-car, imagine how fast a modern petrol car build to group-c-regulations could go. Long way to go if you ask me.

[AutoTechie20711]

@armorgeddon Imagine this thing with a transmission and not direct drive... As for fuel I think it could just get battery swaps instead if they make it accessible. I drive Forklifts at work and a battery swap on those only take 30 seconds or so. And these are 1000+ lbs batteries.

[FourG6397GST]

I guess now you HAVE to look at the speedo, instead of the road :/

[zildog]

I feel really weird after watching this...

My senses are all FUBAR...

[MrNipsi]

375 hp and a stonking 590lb/ft... power!!!!!!

[leobusti]

This will never work!

Race is:

60% SOUND (Sound of a F1 engine is Magic)

20% Crashes

10% Battles

10% Speed

This is BS. Totally pointless.



[Bluepeter62]

@leobusti this is it to you but not to everyone else. I like that sound. An electric motor produces 99% torque and 1% heat, a combustion engine 20% torque and 80% heat, so it is more an oven than a motor. And electric motors need no gears, no time for shifting gears is waisted. We will see which technology is better in the long run, especially when we will run out of oil.

[wakojako49]

@Bluepeter62 i agree with you at the first part but disagree with the last. i don't think this is better for a long run it still ironically still depends on gas power generators. however its a great stepping stone to other tech that will arise from it. for leobusti electric cars in racing will still be as good as now, in fact we will see new pit tactics to compensate for the easily depleting battery.

[ShadowwwLFS]

@wakojako49 Ever heard of atomic power stations?

[ShadowwwLFS]

@wakojako49 also hydro-electric plants. And solar panels. And wind generators. And thousands of other renewable energy sources.

[wakojako49]

@ShadowwwLFS yes yes yes ive heard all of them mate you should do your homework. the problem is you're thinking in small scale not in mass production. that rules out most/all power from renewable sources, cause they're prety inefficient. this leaves us with atomic power stations, though they give a lot of energy you need a lot of them to suply for the commercial, home, industry and electric cars and many of us still arent to convinced with the safety of them.

[ShadowwwLFS]

@wakojako49 err.. more than 80% of electric power in Africa is generated by solar plants. How that's small scale?

[wakojako49]

@ShadowwwLFS its small scale cause they have thier own solar power and thier consumption isnt as much as we do. you don't get what im saying do you? having electric powered cars will add more load to the power station. this means having more power station. most power station that's uses renewable resources are either inefficient, expensive, or just a bother to the population. hence you argument is invalid. might as well say that there are new tech meking them more efficient.

[mptrax]

@Bluepeter62 RIGHT !

[call911ok]

I love the sound of the future. That is the second best thing right after the speed of this thing!

[Melast00]

Arrrgg, i can´t hear this electro ,,sound"

It sound terrible.>-<

[v0nify]

was the car too low for the carousel?

[call911ok]

@v0nify 4:44 you're right, he did avoid it...

[BrunoRaven]

That is really annoying to hear on the first minute. You naturally wait for the gear changes that never happen, and then you start to hear the tires squealing like a video game.

But I like it for many engineering reasons. It will bring back something that average racing don't have anymore, the "lab" aspect. Nowdays engineers have so little create due to tons restrictions on racing rules. This will open new horizons. Imagine how awesome would be to see an electrical car winning at Le Mans...

[BrunoRaven]

I've ran out of space.

Still, this will NEVER get near to the thrilling roar of a GT40, or a Mazda 787B.

[MrRW26]

@BrunoRaven they allowing electric car at le mans in a few years time. they have also allowing hydrogen powered cars and the strangest of the all steam power. they will have their own category to compete in.

[Markese88]

this car has a very bad setup

[realcrown]

this sounds like a horror movie scene around the beginning but it is still the fastest time for an electric car on the ring possibly for a long time

[PaperPIane]

Radical sr3 rs body shell and toyoto just put in an electric motor...

[IIIIIbarcodeIIIII]

it actually sounds amazing

[joemplascencia]

I want one! Call it the Corolla E-XRS, in white plz.

[ReflexEight]

Way to go Prius!

[WhiteIceMan3]

Camry E-SE?

[chrisrox163]

anyone else notice the video was speed up a little as the car goes faster? iuno if its just me or toyota trying to make the car seem faster than it is

[dannnn94]

It may be as fast as a race car, but it doesn't even come close to giving the excitement as hearing a real race car at high revs.

[ksakbk]

isn't that a radical body shell and chassis?

[skew613]

why'd he go outside the carousel?

[THEbeastlySTIG]

@skew613 understeer me thinks.

[IIIIIbarcodeIIIII]

@THEbeastlySTIG really? There's no understeer, you can just hear the tyres as the engine's so quiet. Tyres give maximum grip at a certain degree of slip angle ie they work best when they're squealing a little bit, but not locking up (under brakes) or skidding (during cornering).

[Stiggy37]

@skew613 Propably because of very short suspension.

[n3cr0x]

:o

[DBDMotorsports]

Cool. But lets face it... 5 laps and its dead.

[DvDPlaya]

@DBDMotorsports it's a 12 mi. track. Why would it have to go long distances?

[THEbeastlySTIG]

@DvDPlaya maybe to RACE?

[DBDMotorsports]

@DvDPlaya Internal combustion > Electricity. The future holds fusion, hydrogen fuel cells, and possibly even anti-matter but thats not for a long time. But, once the fossil fuels are gone and/or replaced, we will look back on the roar of a v8, the symphony of a v12 and, yes, even the deafening bellow of a riced out civic, and envy those time.

[saqmuel]

nissan gtr is still beter, and street legal

[DvDPlaya]

@saqmuel wtf?

[NovaScene]

I would be scard shitless in that open cockpit looking at the run-off areas to the barriers

[3108711289]

in theory should this car with enough electric power could beat regular engines cause of the massive torque and no gear changes right?its all about future battery technology

[macuser575]

i want to see a camry or a corolla on the Numburgring