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Toyota blows away electric race car record at Nurburgring

August 30, 2011

Who knew? 7:47.794. Porsche 911 GT3 RS – 7:47 in 2004. Nissan GT-R – 7:24.22. Clearly, this electric Toyota is an amazingly fast car – electric or otherwise. We simply had no idea that Toyota had this going on. But ya gotta admit – a motorsports arm of a Japanese manufacturer that is based in […]

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FIA goes green

August 20, 2011

But would that be the best venue for a new electric race car series? The Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), organizer of Formula One races, World Rally Championship and World Touring Car Championship among others is looking to expand their reach to include the Formula E Championship for 100% electric cars. According to their press […]

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Nissan LEAF runs second annual e-miglia

August 13, 2011

Competition improves the breed Long time readers will know that we have a bent toward the motorsports world in our background. Motorsports competition can take many forms. Here we will introduce you to the e-miglia, run for only the second time in 2011, one year after the inaugural event. In our web wanderings we have […]

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A world where your LEAF makes your coffee could be in your future

August 4, 2011

LEAF gives as good as it gets We just learned that a variant of Nissan’s 200 volt quick charge system can not only fill the LEAF with electricity, but if needed, take that electricity back out of the car and feed it to the house. Now we have a better understanding of why Nissan developed […]

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LEAF quarter mile times

July 29, 2011

Living Life 1/4 mile at a time We just read that a major automobile magazine had run a LEAF down a dragstrip for fun. So we thought that we would check out some LEAF performance data. We went to Edmunds.com for our source material and found an interesting bit of information in their test standards. […]

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LEAF goes to Laguna Seca Raceway!

June 29, 2011

LEAF owners take on Laguna For the third year now Speed Ventures has sponsored an electric vehicle motorsports event at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Speed Ventures offers regular folks the opportunity to drive their street car on racetracks throughout California. One thing that makes ReFuel unique is that the event registration fee was just $10 […]

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Nissan makes history at Pikes Peak

June 28, 2011

LEAF first Electric Production Class winner at Pikes Peak A Nissan LEAF driven by Nissan off-road racer Chad Hord set a first Electric Production Class record of 14 minutes 33 seconds up the hill. The distance of the hillclimb is 12.42 miles (which calculates out to 51.2 miles per hour average if you’re interested). One […]

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Inside NISMO LEAF

June 7, 2011

Ride along with the NISMO LEAF Nissan will be taking the NISMO LEAF to Le Mans to run in an exhibition event this week. The first exhibition will be held on Thursday with the second coming up on Saturday. We’ve linked you to some of the shakedown run videos previously offered by Nissan. This one […]

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Those wacky Dutch – Part Two

June 3, 2011

Drive a LEAF for 24 hours This is really a story about a promotional YouTube video created by a Netherlands based EV fast charge equipment provider. That said, there is some interesting information to be obtained. Epyon Power, founded in 2005, is located in the Netherlands and provides DC Fast Charge stations for electric cars. They […]

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LEAF to take on Pikes Peak Hill Climb

June 1, 2011

Dressed in NISMO LEAF livery, Chad Hord to take on Pikes Peak On June 26 Nissan will attack the Race to the Clouds in an essentially stock Nissan LEAF. Off-road truck racing champion Chad Hord will pilot the LEAF which will be stock with the exception of required safety equipment such as a roll cage, […]

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