Sentences with phrase «make electric racing»

The prototype is further proof of the company's electric intent and previews the world's first single - make electric racing series that will follow rounds of the 2018/19 FIA Formula E Championship.

Not exact matches

A fully - electric street racing series, the ABB FIA Formula E Championship is made up of 10 teams and 20 drivers, with races taking place in cities like New York, Paris and Hong Kong.

To make the challenge even harder, every big carmaker is racing to develop its own electric models.

So, he'll be making his Formula E debut this year, becoming the eighth ex-F1 driver to race in the all - electric series.

With the standard of electric vehicles becoming more impressive and the release of hybrid and fully - electric road cars on a rapid increase, it makes total sense that manufacturers are keen to associate themselves with a fully - electric racing series.

You can have fun on our climbing wall sponsored by Odin Events, race your friends with electric cars on the decking at PPG Canalside and get special balloons made for you!

Don't worry, when I say «racing» I mean that in a relative sense as the 2mph maximum speed makes this the best electric scooter for toddlers and children under about 6 years of age.

Several other companies, including Joby Aviation and Silicon Valley start - ups Zee.Aero and Kitty Hawk — the latter two backed by Google co-founder Larry Page — are racing to develop electric - powered VTOL aircraft that could help make Elevate a reality.

That's the kind of sound we want our electric racing cars to make.»

Correspondent Byron Pitts interviews the founder, Will Dean, and follows participants through the fire, ice, and live electric wires that have made Tough Mudder races legendary.

The engineering of this ultramodern car is absolutely unreal: a monocoque built from carbon - fiber - reinforced plastic; a racing - type weight distribution of 43 percent front / 57 percent rear; rear tires that are each over a foot wide; a plug - in hybrid powertrain with electric motors on each axle that delivers 19 miles of range in full - electric mode; a seven - speed PDK transmission; and a 4.6 - liter V - 8 engine that revs to 9150 rpm and makes 608 hp.

TOYOTA CITY, Japan — Global OEMs are racing into vehicle electrification and particularly electric cars, but Toyota made a name for itself with groundbreaking hybrid - electric vehicles and will continue to prioritize them in the coming 10 - plus years.

The long - awaited redesign of the flagship 7 Series sedan made its debut, as did the 3.0 CSL Hommage concept, first in electric yellow - green at Villa d'Este in Italy, then in BMW's classic white, red, and blue racing livery as the Hommage R at Pebble.

The FIA endorsed new one - make Tesla race series, the Electric Production Car Series, will get underway this year

Indy cars raced here up until 1970, all - wheel - drive rally cars conquered the climb during the»80s and»90s, and it's now common for all - electric racers to make the ascent.

And rather than cutting in automatically during the drive (or indeed race) cycle, the electric power is made available KERS - style, as the racing driver requires it for a six to eight second boost.

But don't expect to see the single - seat, all - electric FFZERO1 race car make it past show stands.

In 2018 Jaguar will make racing history with the first - ever international race series for a Production Battery Electric Vehicle.

The announcement was made at the 2018 Formula E Paris ePrix — as you probably know, DS Automobiles fields two cars in the all - electric racing series under the DS Virgin Racingracing series under the DS Virgin RacingRacing name.

1/4 mile drag racing at Palm Beach International Raceway!All electric Tesla Model S P85D with all wheel drive and dual electric motors that pack a monstrous 691 - hp / 687 lb - ft torque 2014 C7 Corvette Stingray with a N / A V8 making a solid 455hp and 460 lb - ft torque.

Since 2009 Speed Ventures» REFUEL event has made access to a race track free for electric vehicle owners.

To underline its commitment to make electric mobility truly exciting, Nissan also confirmed its participation in the 2018 - 2019 season of Formula E racing.

This trio, made up of Porsche's new Cayenne S Hybrid SUV with parallel full - hybrid drive, the 911 GT3 R Hybrid race car with electric drive on the front axle and a flywheel mass battery, and the two - seater high - performance 918 Spyder mid-engined sports car with plug - in hybrid technology, clearly demonstrates not only the great bandwidth of this new drive technology, but also the innovative power of Porsche as a genuine pioneer in hybrid drive.

Honda has never confirmed the driving range of the all - electric NSX race car, especially since it was made to compete at Pikes Peak, but insiders say it's capable of driving around 200 miles at modest speeds.

Now that so many OEMs are offering such great high performance sports cars I'd love to see a return to a Showroom Stock series where only the brake pads and mufflers could be different from what any enthusiast could order in the showroom plus existing race safety systems like a roll cage, fire systems and fuel and electric shut offs etc. and a minimum of 50 or 100 cars must be made to that spec.

The FE04 just made its big debut in Neuburg, Germany, and will be used in Audi's re-doubled efforts in the all - electric Formula E race series.

But the ones that explode on the ground erase everything: they send out streamers of fire that race across the ground like electric snakes; they light up the donkeys by the water troughs and make their shadows a hundred meters long.

Rosina races through the streets of Prescott, an eternal loner, the only brown girl in town who doesn't hang out with the other brown girls, as if she's trying to stand out on purpose, her spiky black hair snaking through the air, earbuds in her ears, listening to those wild women that made music in towns and cities so close to here but practically a whole generation ago, those brave girls with boots and electric guitars, singing with voices made out of moss and rocks and rainstorms.

It makes my neon electric heart race faster everytime i start it.

As «Regarding Warhol» at the Met made deadly obvious, he kept returning to violence in America, as with cars, electric chairs, and race riots.

Above all, Warhol's art revolved around iconography made famous through TV, newsfilm - clips and advertising, such as atomic bomb mushroom clouds, penitentiary electric chairs, car crashes and race riots.

The campaign contributions that fossil fuel and electric utility interests have made in Ohio's race for governor during the first four months of 2018 have largely gone to Republican candidate Mike DeWine.

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It's unusual in racing for design changes to be made purely for aesthetic reasons, but with its electric cars and gimmicks like FanBoost (which lets fans vote to give a driver a temporary power boost), Formula E isn't like most race series.

If that proves true, it will be a full year after Faraday Future made big headlines with big promises as about a world - changing (and Tesla - killing) autonomous electric vehicle, only to be widely panned for unveiling a futuristic race car - looking concept at CES that they don't plan on making instead of an actual vehicle.

Volkswagen is making an all - electric race car to compete in the hillclimb next year.

But as the driver Robin Shute — a Faraday engineer and race car driver who drove the FF 91 at Pikes Peak — whipped around corners and punched the throttle, it was easy to make sense of the car's idea: peel back the endless layers of mobility - speak Faraday's so keen to offer, and you'll find an electric car that's quick and downright fun to drive, with more than enough space to produce what'll hopefully be a smart, ambitious interior.

Electric drivetrains are a lot simpler than their internal combustion counterparts, making it much easier for the same things learned in racing to be applied to road cars.