This is the Peugeot EX1 electric car and it recently set a new track record at Germany’s Nürburgring-Nordschleife circuit.
Stéphane Caillet, driver and tuner-technician from the Company’s Research & Development Centre, was at the wheel of the EX1 Concept Car, which covered the circuit’s 20.832 kilometres (12.944 miles), convincingly beating the electric speed record for a lap.
The Nürburgring has a reputation as being one of the toughest tests anywhere in the world for a motor vehicle, due to the huge amounts of turns, straights, braking areas and varying degrees of camber throughout the large circuit.
The EX1 beat an electric speed record by putting in a lap time of 9 minutes, 1.338 seconds (9:01.338) at an average speed of 138.324 km/h (85.951 mph), despite weather conditions which were far from favourable.
The previous electric speed record on this circuit was the time of 9:51.45 seconds clocked in 2010.
The record achieved by EX1 was formally recognised by WIGE Performance, the official time-keeping body for the Nordschleife.
Nurburgringexplorer says
November 8, 2011 at 1:10 amWell done Peugeot, setting a good record in an innovative design rather than bolting a power unit in a race car like other manufactures.