Racing
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What's it like driving the Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid, the world's fastest hybrid vehicle? Ask driver Patrick Long, and he'll tell you he's "still pretty charged up (forgive the pun)" after returning to the States following two weeks of testing the car on the Lausitzring circuit outside Berlin. We had a chance to chat with Long next to one of the world's only two 911 GT3 R Hybrid models, incongruously parked outside a swanky restaurant in midtown Manhattan. He was there to announce that the groundbreaking hybrid would make its first appearance in U.S. competition in the Petit Le Mans race...
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Think Unveils EVCup Race-Ready City: Faster, Lighter, LeanerThere was a time when 'electric vehicle racing' was nothing more than an oxymoron. While teams of dedicated engineers, speed junkies and volt-heads have lit up drag strips with custom-built EV quarter-mile kings for years, the concept of racing production electric vehicles has yet to take off. But...
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Volkswagen: Natural Gas Is Just As Good For Racing As Diesel
A couple of months ago, we told you about Volkswagen's 2010 Jetta TDI Cup Street Edition, a specially trimmed version of its clean-diesel Jetta sedan that commemorates the TDI Cup racing series, now in its third season. But VW has other green racing activities elsewhere too. Our sister site Motor...
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Green Earth's Biodegradable Oil Wins Long Beach Grand Prix
Green Earth Technologies G-OIL is the most biodegradable racing oil available.
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The Green Side of SEMA
November is a time to give thanks...for the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA). These are the people and companies who make car enthusiasts drool with automotive add-ons and accessories fit for a classic episode of Pimp My Ride. Each November, when the SEMA show takes place in Las Vegas...
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Electric Supercar Alert: Steenstra Styletto Images Released
Watch your back Tesla. There's a new electric supercar in the works and it's being developed right in your backyard. International car designer, Cornelis Steenstra just released the first images of his zero-emissions, 200-mph-plus, sports car which he hopes to put on the streets by early 2013...
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Hybrids aren't known for blistering performance, but that didn't stop one UK automotive publication from putting two of the most popular fuel misers on the drag strip. In a recent comparison of the Toyota Prius and the Honda Insight, iMotor performed the standing quarter mile in both cars. Needless to say, they were both horrifically slow, but a competition can't have two losers, and the less tortoise-like hybrid was crowned the winner of the performance category. The two eco-gladiators also faced off in the areas of pollution, public opinion and price. There was a resounding winner that...
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Racing Goes Green As Diesels Romp At Le Mans
We were once told by an auto writer that "real car people" didn't want green cars. They wanted noise, and roaring engines, and squealing tires. Well, the triumph of diesel-powered race cars at the famed 24 Heures du Mans shows you can have both. The French carmaker Peugeot placed first and second...
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Ferrari To Go Hybrid, World Trembles On Its Axis
Ferrari is now testing prototypes of a hybrid-electric system in the fabulous 599 sports car
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2009 Toyota Camry Hybrid Goes NASCAR
NASCAR is expanding into non-Detroit brands with the selection of a Toyota Camry Hybrid as the pace car for several races this summer
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Should Formula One Racing Go Electric?
The Guardian offers an interesting commentary on Electric Formula One racing cars. The author argues that the combustion engine is dying. This is marked for example by Honda recently pulling out of future F1 competition. He notes that combustion engines only can convert one third of their energy...
Lyle Dennis
