The wild all-electric racecar Volkswagen built to compete in the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb last year has smashed another record, this time at Germany’s world-famous Nürburgring. Early Monday morning, the company announced that the I.D. R completed the Nürburgring Nordschleife loop in just 6:05.336 minutes, which is more than 40 seconds faster than the previous record set by Chinese EV startup NIO’s EP9 supercar in 2017.
Volkswagen originally built the I.D. R with the express purpose of running at Pikes Peak, a century-old competition where drivers race up a grueling 156-turn, 12.4-mile course to a finish line more than 14,000 feet above sea level. Electric cars have flourished over the last few years at Pikes Peak because they…
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