Beetle Vs Tesla, Alternative Energy Racing event at Santa Pod Raceway, April 2010. Beetle 11.76 – Tesla 12.75 – very interesting, but where is the noise that makes drag racing fun?
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One day you might remember this most recent race weekend. Motorcycle history was made, and some say an altogether new age for American racing was also born, with the running of the first sanctioned electric-powered motorcycle road race on U.S. soil at Sonoma county California’s Infineon Raceway on May 16.
The 25-mile TTXGP competition, in which 12 teams initially entered, 10 started and eight finished, was won by Shawn Higbee on the Zero Agni machine – the same converted GSX-R600 which last June won the Pro Class at the world’s first TTXGP electric motorcycle race held at Britain’s the Isle of Man … Details
The Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid has passed its most unusual task by now with flying colours in preparation for the Nürburgring 24 hour race on 15/16 May: AT&T Williams Formula 1 pilot Nico Hülkenberg tested the orange and white liveried racing 911 on the Nürburgring Nordschleife in the lead up to the third round of the VLN Long Distance Championship and was enthusiastic with many aspects: “Great car, fascinating technology and an incomparable track,” concluded Hülkenberg
After launching its first street-legal bike last summer – the Electric Supermoto, or Zero S – California-based Zero Motorcycles has introduced the 2010 Zero DS, a road-worthy dual-sport sibling and latest stablemate to a growing line of on- and off-road machines.
The S continues as a 2010 model with minor updates, and the two bikes are nearly identical except the DS comes with a few changes to suit it for light trail duty. Both of these electric motorcycles perform similarly to a “150cc to 250cc†4-stroke gasoline-powered bike, according to CEO Gene Banman  … Details