Toyota e-rocks the Ring
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YsInjWx5GU

Always a stunning sight. The car is electric and set a new world record on that track, for that class.

No rev up.

That's pretty cool, but will it blend?

Pretty cool. I've seen in-car videos of laps at the 'Ring, one dating from the 1950s, and this one is awesome too.

Oh cool the old North ring. Really eerie when the tire squeal is louder than the motor.

Gotta love that it seems to be doing that with no gears either. The acceleration and power on electric engines is incredible.

That's incredible, now sacrifice a little power for a bit more endurance and we might soon be seeing everyday electric sports cars.

The irony is that a week or ten days ago Toyota has announced that it abandones the developement of full electrified cars from immediately on, because they do not see an economic future and a market for 100% E-cars. They will just stay with hybrid cars, they said.

Fact is E-cars are very expensive, accu-batteries constantly loose capacity and must be changed sooner or later (costing the car-owner many thousands), and for the really big revolution in boosting the reach of accu-run e-cars we are waiting since a long time now - and the real big quantum leap is not in sight.

Also, the known ressources of lithium are limited, and probably too limited as if they would allow the Western plans for a fully electrified future in the West - not even mentioning the demand for lithium from China, India, if they would copy these plans... Strange that the shortage on certain substances never get mentioned in the news. With oil we know it meanwhile, and some of us have learned about the shortage of sweet water as well. But Lithium never gets mentiuoned, or phosphorus, which is even more vital and indeed threatening by it's shortages.

And after that one lap, the car needed to be recharged for 12 hours. Will make Electric F1 pit stops a bit boring won't it?:D

That's a shame...Nissan will soon commence manufacturing the Leaf about 5 mile from where I live.

Would anyone notice the difference these days :DL

Or Silicon for that matter. The fact is no-one thinks about those resources in the smae terms as Oil as no-one in the media, has picked up the fact that ALL our resources are limited.