In the recent Pike's Peak race up the hill, the new VW electric race car destroyed the lap record set by Sebastien Loeb by 16 seconds! this is no joke as the electric car had blistering performance that made the previous Peugeot race car look slow!
Sebastien Loeb is the 9 time WRC rally champion and is one of the best drivers in the world. To have high record broken by a margin of 16 seconds is truly impressive.
The electric hypercar from China NIO EP9 broke the Nurburgring record and no other fossil fuelled cars could come close to beating it. It is obvious that the development of the electric motor and battery is able to jump by leaps and bounds giving car companies the ability to push the overall performance of their cars.
Porsche also showed its prototype electric car in testing mode with former F1 driver Mark Webber behind the wheel. Porsche will be launching their electric sports sedan later this year calling it the Taycan.
Performance electric cars are here to stay and is definitely the way of the future. It will also show in increasing numbers how efficient it can be and will make fossil fuel cars look slow. It is difficult for fossil fuel cars to beat the electric car. The development of the fossil fuel motor is almost at its peak and there isn't much room for further development however with the electric motor and battery the development is still at its early stage and there is a lot more room for improvements.
Tesla made electric cars cool and fast. NIO made electric hypercars super impressive... what's next?
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