Green Car Reports
JUNE 25, 2013
Audi has continued its dominant run at the world''s most famous endurance race, winning the Le Mans 24 Hours on Sunday. The team''s twelfth Le Mans victory is also the second for its hybrid race car, the R18 e-tron quattro.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 22, 2016
Audi unveiled its redesigned R18 diesel hybrid Le Mans racer for the 2016 World Endurance Championship (WEC) season. Among the new features in the R18 are a more radical aerodynamics concept, including a new safety cell; a Li-ion battery replacing the flywheel energy storage system; and a revised V6 TDI diesel engine.
Green Car Reports
JUNE 26, 2013
At the weekend, Audi''s R18 e-tron, a diesel-electric hybrid race car, took victory at the Le Mans 24-hour race. Also at Le Mans, Nissan unveiled its 2014 competitor for the race, the ZEOD RC electric prototype. It''s been a good week for electric vehicles in motor sport.
Green Car Congress
JULY 21, 2010
Porsche’s 911 GT3 R Hybrid race car will race for the first time in North America at The American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón’s signature event—the Petit Le Mans on 2 October at Road Atlanta. The hybrid is equipped with a flywheel energy recovery system (KERS). Earlier post.).
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 2, 2010
Endurance racing has more than its share of heartbreak. For Porsche Motorsport, this weekend's Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta provided sweet relief to a galling memory: Its unique 911 GT3 R Hybrid race car retired less than two hours before the checkered flag during May's 24 Hours of Nurburgring.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 27, 2015
Porsche has presented the second generation of its Le Mans Prototype 919 Hybrid race car. The new racer will compete in the 8 MJ category (8 MJ of recovered energy per race lap)—the highest of the current four energy categories in the LMP1 class. Porsche 919 Hybrid, 2015. Liters diesel. Earlier post.)
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