That's awesome, the Chinese car almost got first place! Faster than a Porsche!

The Nürburgring is often talked about, but do you know what it's really like? The Nürburgring's northern circuit is known as the "Green Hell" because of its high speed straights and sharp bends, and its close proximity to the guardrail, and the frequency of accidents is the main reason it has been abandoned by the F1 race.

The Nürburgring's 22.8-kilometer-long northern loop, with a 300-meter difference in elevation, has been contracted by major automakers for product development, tuning and optimization, and even test-driving activities for performance cars.

The harsh environment of the "Ring of Truth" has become the "Whampoa Military Academy" for many high-performance cars, and now it is synonymous with the world of speed, so it's embarrassing to boast that you are a high-performance car without going to New York's New York North Raceway to brush up on your performance.

Little-known fact is that, in addition to the supercars in the New York North you catch up with me all year round, there are a handful of electric cars to the New York North "smashing", noiselessly many fuel supercars dragged down to the horse. So the question is, why can electric cars easily refresh the fuel supercars of the New York City record?

First of all, the transmission part of a traditional fuel car is a complex system. From the moment you step on the gas pedal to the time the computer receives a command to pump gasoline, the engine revs up and then passes through the transmission to the wheels to complete the acceleration process. The response is slow and the transmission is inefficient.

A pure electric car equipped with a single-stage transmission without excessive transmission losses, while the drive motor has a natural advantage of instant peak torque output, the initial power response is faster than traditional fuel cars more than half a star, the advantage will be in the low-speed corners of the majority of the track to highlight, lap times will naturally be faster.

Some people are angry: dare you compare the rear-end acceleration? If you'll excuse me, the 0-400m straight-line acceleration track, where the fastest time of 9.65s set by the muscle-car Dodge Challenger?SRT?Demon was beaten by the Tesla Roadster?2 with a record-breaking 8.9s, left the fuel party in the lurch. The confidence that fuel supercars had built up over a century was dimmed in an instant.

You may not want to believe it, but these are nail-biting examples. Instead, let's look at some of the electric "tough guys" that have been circling the Nordschleife.

It's not news that gas guzzlers have been making their way to the Nordschleife for a long time, but it's the first time an electric car has done so.

Peugeot brought the EX1, an electric race car it had built with great care, to the Nordschleife in 2011. The vehicle is equipped with a 170Ps electric motor in the front and rear axles respectively, and the peak torque of 240N-m can easily drag this less than one-ton "electric elf".

The Peugeot EX1 accelerates from 0-100km/h in 3.49s, and with its excellent lightweight and French chassis tuning expertise, the "road kart" scored a 9:01:338 on the New Year's Northern Circuit, winning the "Fastest Electric Car in New York" award at the time. It won the title of "Fastest Electric Car in New York" at the time.

In July 2012, Audi's pure electric supercar R8?e-tron set a super-fast lap time of 8 minutes and 9 seconds in the New York North Raceway, successfully overcoming the Peugeot EX1's 2011 record of "Fastest New York City Electric Car". This "quietest" Nordschleife record is even close to that of Audi's high-performance RS4 at the same time.

Inside, the Audi R8?e-tron is powered by a purely electric drive, with an electric system that delivers up to 313Ps of horsepower and 820N-m of peak torque, and accelerates from 0-100km/h in just 4.6s.

In addition, the 49kWh lithium-ion battery pack supports a range of just 215km, which is not bad considering the racing car's crucial lightweighting. There is no excuse for this. A couple of laps under intense conditions and it's probably time to go and dutifully recharge.

In August 2019, Porsche's first all-electric sports car, the Taycan, set a new lap record for an "all-electric four-door sports car" at the Nordschleife. Driver Lars Kern drove a near-production Porsche Taycan Turbo to complete a 20.6km lap in 7:42:00. No sound, but very manic.

The Porsche Taycan achieves four-wheel drive with two highly efficient permanent magnet synchronous motors, and the high-voltage battery is placed at the bottom center of the body, so you can feel that the Porsche team is trying its best to restore the most original sports car handling.

In addition, Porsche's 4D Chassis Control analyzes dynamic data in real time and synchronizes all chassis systems to maximize the reach of the Taycan's tires, which is complemented by outstanding aerodynamics.

Before the Porsche Taycan Turbo had even warmed its seat as the fastest all-electric four-door sports car in New York City, Tesla sent the Model S Plaid to attack.

Inside, the Model S Plaid didn't use the powertrain of the production Model S. Instead, it used a single front motor and dual rear motors. Instead, it uses a three-motor combination with a single motor in front and dual motors in the back, and adjusts the thermal management system of the battery pack for track conditions. It's a bit of a stretch to take an engineering car and put it up against someone else's production car.

In addition, the Tesla Model S Plaid is fitted with Michelin Cup2R and Goodyear F1 Supersport RS semi-thermally fused tires and lightweight wheels, a large front air intake and rear spoiler wing, and the interior has been stripped down as much as possible to reduce the car's weight. After winning the "test" race, Tesla also chimed in to Porsche, which lacked a bit of the big guns.

In 2018, former F1 driver Nelson Piquet Jr. drove the Azera electric car EP9 to challenge the "Ring of Truth" New York North Raceway, and eventually broke the record of the fastest electric car in New York North with a lap time of 7 minutes and 05 seconds. If it weren't for the poor weather conditions on the track that day, the EP9's lap time would have been even faster.

In May 2019, the EP9 came back to the Nordschleife after choosing a good day, and of course, challenged itself. In the end, in the right place and right time, Azalea EP9 with a time of 6 minutes and 45.9 seconds to once again refresh the record of the fastest electric car in New York North, a time of fame, not to mention the glory of the independent.

Fast makes sense. The Azera EP9 is equipped with four high-performance motors and four independent gearboxes, capable of a crazy output of 1360Ps horsepower, 0-200km/h acceleration is but a matter of 7.1. With a top speed of 313km/h and a downforce twice that of an F1 car, the EP9 deserves the title of "the world's fastest mass-produced electric car".

In June 2019, the Volkswagen ID.R electric sports car in the New York North Raceway with a time of 6 minutes, 5 seconds and 336 refreshed the previous record of "the fastest New York electric car" held by the Azera EP9, the Azera EP9's sweeping, and this is the ancient.

The Volkswagen ID.R is equipped with a high-power electric motor on the front and rear axles to form a four-wheel drive, with a maximum output of 680Ps and 650N-m. With a full-time four-wheel drive system with torque distribution, the vehicle accelerates from 0-100km/h in just 2.25s.

Compared with the Azure EP9's astonishing 1,360Ps, the ID.R only needs to produce 1,000Nm of torque, which is the highest in the world. The Volkswagen ID.R is more than forty seconds ahead of the former in the New York North with only 680Ps. Proving once again that horsepower is not necessarily justice! One can't help but be impressed by the fact that the power of traditional car companies always comes as a surprise, and that track experience and technical reserves are deep and unrecognizable.

Car companies burn money to make the electric car to the New York North Brush circle, in addition to the effect of the name of the place (for example, the farmed crabs thrown into the Yangcheng Lake soak in a bath can be sold at a high price) to enhance the image of the product, but also to show the enterprise in the field of new energy technology, through the remarkable racing record for its civilian electric car endorsement, to play a premium wonderful use.

The King of New York (5:19.546) - Porsche?919?Hybrid?EVO

As a pilgrimage site for performance cars, I hope the New York North Raceway can narrow the gap between performance car fans and EVs, so that more high-level players are willing to pay for their electric toys. electric toys.

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