{"id":882,"date":"2019-07-10T13:24:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T13:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beterit.nl\/?p=882"},"modified":"2019-07-10T13:24:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T13:24:46","slug":"volkswagens-id-r-electric-race-car-keeps-breaking-records-this-time-twice-at-goodwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beterit.nl\/?p=882","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen\u2019s ID R electric race car keeps breaking records, this time twice at Goodwood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Electric cars are growing up fast! <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took 20 years to break the Goodwood Festival of Speed hill climb record. And it happened twice in the same weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new record holder is Volkswagen\u2019s ID R electric race car. The vehicle, driven by driver Romain Dumas, broke the record by completing the 1.86-kilometer track (1.15 miles) at Goodwood in the south of England in 41.18 seconds. Dumas then broke his own record the following day by completing the track in 39.90 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The previous record at the famous hill climb was set in 1999 by Nick Heidfeld, who was driving a 780-horsepower McLaren-Mercedes MP4\/13 with a combustion engine. Heidfeld completed the run in 41.6 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Volkswagen ID R (and Dumas) has been on a tear as of late, setting records at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.volkswagen-newsroom.com\/en\/press-releases\/605336-minutes-volkswagen-idr-sets-new-electric-record-on-the-nuerburgring-5045\">N\u00fcrburgring-Nordschleife<\/a>&nbsp;and Pikes Peak. The ID R set a new electric vehicle lap record at N\u00fcrburgring-Nordschleife by completing the course in 6:05.336 minutes. The previous record was set in 2017 by Peter Dumbreck, who was driving a Nio electric vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Volkswagen ID R was modified to best suit the Goodwood hill climb. A vehicle was outfitted with a smaller battery, which helped reduce the weight, and the power output was optimized for the short sprint. A drag reduction system was designed for high-speed sections of the N\u00fcrburgring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why does all this matter? This race car is a testbed and a flagship for Volkswagen\u2019s ID electric vehicle platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volkswagen has been showing off its ID line of concept electric vehicles for several years. The company is preparing some of them for production, beginning with the ID.3. VW aims to sell 100,000 ID.3 vehicles annually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ID.3 hatchback is the first model to be built on the automaker\u2019s new Modular Electric Drive Toolkit, or MEB, electric-car architecture. Introduced in 2016, MEB is a flexible modular system \u2014 really a matrix of common parts \u2014 for producing electric vehicles that VW says makes it more efficient and cost-effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others will soon follow. VW plans to have a portfolio of more than 20 full-electric models. The automaker\u2019s goal is to sell 1 million electric vehicles annually by 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/07\/07\/volkswagens-id-r-electric-race-car-keeps-breaking-records-this-time-twice-at-goodwood\/\" target=\"new&quot;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric cars are growing up fast! It took 20 years to break the Goodwood Festival of Speed hill climb record. 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