Lap time

Toyota may not have a single electric car available for sale yet, but that isn’t going to stop it from attempting to set a electric car lap record at the 12.93 mile Nordschleife at the Nürburgring in Germany -- in a car it has built for that very purpose. At 9 minutes and 1.338 seconds, the current Nordschleife electric car lap record was set by French automaker Peugeot in its EX1 concept electric sports car earlier this year. At the time, we speculated that the record wouldn’t stand for long -- and if Toyota Motorsport is successful -- it will be broken in around a week. The...