Electric Car Peugeot EX1 set a speed record

Nordschleife - the most complicated and longest racetrack in the world. It has a relatively small width of the pavement and lots of turns (about hundreds of changes in the trajectory and altitude difference 300 m). Until the mid 70-ies of XX century on the Nordschleife race held the German Grand Prix. Nowadays it is used for test rides the biggest automakers and authoritative automotive media.

The car is running a pilot Stephen Kaye successfully overcome the distance with a total length of almost 21 km, despite the adverse weather conditions. The result of this check is a new speed record for electric cars - Peugeot EX1 was a circle 9 minutes 1.388 seconds, more than 50 seconds, improving the previous record (9 minutes 51.45 seconds). Average speed of the electric vehicle was 138.324 km / h. Established record was found WIGE Performance - the official organization that provides measurements of the time in races on the Nordschleife.

Recall that a concept car Peugeot EX1 debuted at the Paris Motor Show in 2010. Currently, he managed to break several world records to disperse from their seats. Electric car powered by two electric motors with total capacity of 340 hp True, Peugeot there are no plans to launch this concept into production.