MUNICH - The plan to release Toyota Motorsport GmbH will begin to produce and introduce this car next year with a powertrain that uses components EVO Electric.
Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG)'s managed to create a new lap record for a vehicle with an electric engine at the Nurburgring Nordschleife, Germany. Previous record was held by a Peugeot EX1.
As reported Worldcarfans, Thursday (09/08/2011), driving a modified car, dubbed EV P001, Jochen Krumbach able to score a 20.8 km (12.9 miles) on the track Nurburgring in 7 minutes 47.794 seconds. This note also broke the record held by Peugeot EX1 ie 9 minutes 1.338 seconds.
"This is a remarkable achievement, the article we are able to show the public how the potential of electric powertrain technology capable of producing a high-speed and breaking records is printed Peugeot," said Rob Leupen, Business Director of Toyota Motorsport.
In addition, electric cars made by Toyota is equipped with an electric powertrain technology that can deliver 800 Nm of torque. This technology can produce this car accelerates from 0-100 km / h in 3.9 seconds and allows the drive up to speed 250km/jam.