{"id":141650,"date":"2018-04-23T18:53:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T01:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=141650"},"modified":"2018-04-23T18:53:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T01:53:12","slug":"vws-electric-pikes-peak-racer-accelerates-faster-than-an-f1-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=141650","title":{"rendered":"VW&#8217;s electric Pikes Peak racer accelerates faster than an F1 car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of promises, VW has formally unveiled its electric Pikes Peak race car&#8230; and its performance might be surprising even in light of earlier hype. The I.D. R Pikes Peak is built to smash Pikes Peak&#8217;s EV record of 8 minutes and 57 seconds not through brute force, but by achieving a finely tuned power-to-weight ratio. While the 680HP two-motor powerplant may not sound like much when the existing record holder (Drive eO&#8217;s PP100) packed a whopping 1,596HP, VW&#8217;s vehicle will weigh under 2,500lbs versus 2,646lbs for its archrival.<\/p>\n<p>Combine that with potentially better aerodynamics (the VW car is closer to a Le Mans car than the usual hill climber) and the result is an EV that can outperform some of the fastest race cars. With a 0-60MPH time of\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/04\/22\/vw-id-r-pikes-peak-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of promises, VW has formally unveiled its electric Pikes Peak race car&#8230; and its performance might be surprising even in light of earlier hype. The I.D. R Pikes Peak is built to smash Pikes Peak&#8217;s EV record of 8 minutes and 57 seconds not through brute force, but by achieving a finely tuned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,69,21,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-electric-vehicles","category-formula-1-indy-cars","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141652,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141650\/revisions\/141652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}