An Electric Car Heads to Le Mans Next Year

plugincars.com 29 Nov '12, 12am

An Electric Car Heads to Le Mans Next Year

The Green GT H2 race car that will race in Le Mans in 2013 Many people in Europe think the 24 Hours of Le Mans is the world's greatest automotive race. Nobody can argue that it's one of the most fascinating. The race's record is 3,360 miles. That was Mike Rockenfeller, Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas driving an Audi diesel. They stopped about 30 times to refill and change tires, but they spent most of those 24 hours driving as hard as they can, achieving an average speed over 140 mph. That's amazing. Yet there will something even more incredible next year—something never seen before: an attempt to complete the race in an all-electric car. It simply sounds impossible. Electric cars don't have a high top speed or a long range, but a small French-Swiss team lead by Jean-François Weber and Christophe Schwartz decided they were up to the challenge. Their company, Green GT , is n...

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