Toyota Nürburgring electric vehicle record setting lap - in car footage

Toyota has set a new electric vehicle lap record at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Driving a modified Radical, dubbed the EV P001, Jochen Krumbach completed the 20.8 km (12.9 mile) long course in 7 minutes and 47.794 seconds which buried the previous record of 9 minutes and 1.338 seconds that was set by the Peugeot EX1 concept. According to Rob Leupen, Toyota Motorsport's Director of Business Operations, "This is a very impressive achievement which really shows the huge potential for electric powertrains to deliver fast, exciting action on the race track. There's no doubt that electric motorsport can be every bit as thrilling as traditional racing and it was an amazing sensation to watch the TMG electric vehicle fly past on the Nordschleife, with only the sound of wind rushing past and tires squealing." As we have previously reported, the P001 features a 41.5 kWh lithium-ceramic battery which powers two electric motors that develop 381 PS (280 kW / 375 hp) and 800 Nm (590 Nm) of torque. This setup enables the 970 kg (2,138 lb) car to accelerate from 0-100 km/h in 3.9 seconds and hit a top speed of 260 km/h (162 mph).

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[reinisze123]

i wonder how long would be a pitstop with refilling. 8,9 hours?

[Piterneonet]

@reinisze123 Replacing the battery would take about 10-20 sec

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[therustyrobinson1]

That thing pushes like a dump truck, free it up a little and I think they could take seconds off.



[MrOsvaldito3]

formula 1 electric now! reemplazar un paquete de baterias no tardaria mucho en pits

[mb013962]

I thought the graffiti was a names of the people who died when doing the track

[Powersproductions130]

It's amazing how they get a record driving this badly. I'm not saying I could do it any better but he was carrying way too much speed in a lot of corners and he missed that bank

[MrJacman]

Fantastic!!!! Coming from a man who loves engines and Porsche!!!

[DriftMachine811]

@mancamiatipoola o okay thx

[so2fast4u2]

Looks like GT5

[mancamiatipoola]

The engine sounds like the bikes in Extreme G (a sci-fi racing game).

I love it !

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@DriftMachine811

Nurburgring has always had graffiti on it, ever since it was built in the 60s. Some german hippies jumped the fence and painted it. No one bothered to erase the first graffiti so others came and painted more, and so on. Now there is almost 1 mile of graffiti that no one bothered to erase. But the clandestine graffiti artists have mysteriously stopped coming after they installed electric fences >:). Now u have to be a commando to get in to make a graffiti.