Toyota Motorsport now holds the lap record for an electric vehicle at the Nürburgring. The German-based operation’s TMG EV P001 broke the old record by a convincing margin last week when the car, with a 100% electric powertrain and Jochen Krumbach at the wheel, covered the 20.8km Nordschleife in 7 mins 47.794 secs to best the existing time of 9 mins 1.338 secs.
The TMG EV P001 is based on a Radical chassis, modified by TMG for e-WOLF. With two EVO Electric motors, the vehicle has a 260 kph top speed. Combined with 800 Nm of torque, this allowed the car to achieve impressive speeds on the extremely challenging Nordschleife.
The company’s target prior to the record run was to become the first electric vehicle to break the eight-minute barrier, and this was achieved comfortably on a day when the notoriously changeable Nürburgring weather stayed fine, with relatively low track temperatures.
The new lap record was completed on road-legal tyres, using the complete track, and verified by independent lap timing. Spurred on by this achievement, TMG is looking to begin commercial sales of the technology in 2012
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wow..that was fast! the sound of the car is very cool..like jet engine.
Hyundai Genesis anytime better and faster than this shit……if Hyundai or Kia join the race sure no way Toyota gonna score the record…
Another hare brained comment not related to the topic by a first class dumbass.
Stick to the topic and Hyundai / Kia is NOT in the race here.
wats the hyundai genesis got to do with this? can anyone enlighten me pls..?
What’s the problem with you? This is just a time setting drive and not a race, what is it got to do with those Korean cars?
Toyota GT-ONE replacement…
gundam forever!
See…I spotted a blind H & K-fag :P
anything can round the nurburgring in less than 10 minutes is blazingly fast, and to be in the 7 min zone is d@mn fast. An electric car within the 7-8 min zone is impressive enough… but to recharge a battery powered car still turn me off from getting an electric powered car.
not really impressive since its not a production car.
couldn’t agree more.
We just have to get use to the electric motor “whining”. It WILL replace the raw muscle sound sooner or later. 260km/h top speed, 800Nm of torque, all electric madness.
not a shame if electric car sound just like this one dude! :D
“Based on a Radical chasis…” Then this shouldn’t even be called a Toyota at all!
but the relationship is a little more complicated than just that.. the article says the car is by e-wolf, and modified to do the speed record by TMG (toyota motorsports germany). e-wolf is a company that specialises in electric vehicles. Im sure there is more to it than just face value.
E Wolf’s Alpha 2 is more yummy. But they would need the downforce of the Radical to be this fast around the circuit.
I don’t think there is a complicated relationship. TMG is a builder/developer for E Wolf. TMG has a new biz model and they do development work for other companies.
this is a german car. BADGE only toyota. japanese sucks
whoa…a Speed Demon with an Electric power…nice…