EX1 Beats Nurburgring Record for Electric Vehicles

The 100 percent electric Peugeot EX1 Concept car is a visually striking two-seater roadster with a futuristic styling and an original architecture, which we can expect to go into production... never. But that hasn’t stopped engineers from finding other uses for it.

For the first time ever, Peugeot yesterday attempted to set a record on the Nordschleife track. Stephane Caillet, driver and tuner-technician at PSA-DRD, was at the wheel of the EX1 concept car, which covered the circuit’s 20.832 kilometers in 9:01.338, a very respectable result and a new record for electric cars on the famous German track. Despite less then favorable weather condition, the EX1’s average speed was clocked at 138.324 km/h.

The previous electric speed record on this circuit was the time of 9:51.45 seconds clocked in 2010 by the MINI E RACE. The record achieved by EX1 was formally recognized by WIGE Performance, the official time-keeping body for the Nordschleife. Back in September 2010, the EX1 broke five records in a series of runs made at the Chengdu military airport in the province of Sichuan in China.

The Peugeot EX1 Concept has already broken several world records for acceleration from a standing start. It owes its stunning performance to its streamlined aerodynamics, its ultra-light structure and its two electric motors, which give the car a cumulative maximum power of 250 kW and AWD. On the Peugeot EX1 Concept car, two electric motors are used, one on each axle, each with a peak output of 125 kW, and an immediately available constant maximum torque of 240 Nm at the front and rear.