Professional EV racing... in France

[MetroMPG]

Until today, I had no idea this existed - a professional ice-rally series using a fleet of custom cars:

The eight copies of the Andros Car 03-Evo 2 built by Exagon Engineering held up quite well and put their torquey (147 pound-feet) 90 kW (122 horsepower) Siemens AC motors to good use, rounding the seven different circuits only a couple seconds slower than their long-established gas-powered marquee'd-marque-built cousins.

Source: ABG

Some YouTube action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa05QkhpZAY

[thatguitarguy]

I'm sure there are a lot of people tha abhor the idea, but I kinda like watching a car race and hearing that electric motor whine instead of screaming loud engines. Sound kinda like the future...

[MetroMPG]

The people who miss the engine roar... I wonder if they also miss the tire squeal too (none on snow/ice!)

[automd]

Now that's something interesting & new. Though the idea still seems to be in its infancy, it looks like..it's going to have a good future.

[Cd]

Shock le bleu !

[Cd]

Originally Posted by automd

Now that's something interesting & new. Though the idea still seems to be in its infancy, it looks like..it's going to have a good future.

( Actually some of the first 'race cars' were electric )

Good to see this finally coming full circle !

[Tweety]

The electrics have been around since 2006... So not that new... This is the first full series though...