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Toyota's TMG EV P001 – perhaps trying to outrun its boring name – smashed the existing lap record for an electric vehicle on the famed 12.93-mile Nürburgring Nordschleife track with a time of 7 minutes and 47.79 seconds. This beats the previous electric car time by a healthy ...

Just days before its scheduled attempt to smash the existing electric vehicle lap record at the famed Nürburgring Nordschleife, Toyota Motorsports GmbH (TMG) has reportedly decided to sell the heart and soul of its electric racer in limited quantities. Word is that Toyota Motorsports' goal ...

In advance of it assault on the standing electric vehicle record round the 'Ring, Toyota Motorsports GmbH (TMG) has released a photo and a few more details about the vehicle it will use to quickly navigate the 20.832 km (12.94 miles) length of the Nordschleife. Unsurprisingly, the racer looks a ...

No, it's not a record-setting lap, but with a time 9 minutes and 40 seconds, the Electric RaceAbout did narrowly beat the 9:51 lap set by a modified Mini E back in 2010 at the famed Nürburgring in Germany. Sure, the radically styled Peugeot EX1 lapped the 'Ring in 9 minutes 1.338 seconds, ...

When nearly 200 cars line up this weekend at the Nürburgring for the Adenauer ADAC Rudstrecken-Trophy, countless Porsches and BMWs will be among them. And a hybrid. Wait, what? That's right. This year Gazoo Racing – the ToMoCo-backed outfit that has campaigned the Lexus LFA at the ...

For decades now, automakers have turned to the famed Nürburgring in Germany to put vehicles to the test. On April 27th, Peugeot sent its radically styled EX1 electric 'round the 'Ring, setting a record for battery-powered vehicles with a time of 9 minutes 1.338 seconds. The ...

When Peugeot unveiled the EX1 to the world at the 2010 Paris Motor Show, we had a hunch it would be one spectacular electric sports car. With an impressive amount of thrust – 250 kilowatts (340 horsepower) from a pair of electric motors, one attached to each axle – and a sleek and ...

Porsche has pulled back the curtain on the second version of its 911 GT3 R Hybrid race car. The German automaker has managed to reduce the electrified racer's weight by 20 percent mostly by toying with the hybrid drivetrain in the hybrid drivetrain. Two electric motors mated to a portal axle ...

For the first 22 hours and 15 minutes of the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, the Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid demonstrated pretty conclusively that being able to go 25 percent further on every tank of gas can be very beneficial in ...

Nine hours into the 24 hour enduro at the Nurburgring, Porsche's hybrid sports car is showing the benefits of extra fuel efficiency in endurance racing especially on a long track. The 911 GT3 R hybrid may not yet have the ...