Volkswagen's all-electric race car shatters records on the uphill Pikes Peak

For the last 100 years, cars have been setting records on top of Colorado's Pikes Peak.

Another record has been broken this year, but this time it comes courtesy of a specially-designed electric race car developed by Volkswagen, the I.D. R Pikes Peak.

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The prototype, helmed by French racing driver Romain Dumas, broke records on the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, clocking a time of 7:57 on the 12.42 mile (19.99 kilometre) track. 

The time not only breaks the record for the fastest electric car, but eclipses the all-time record set in 2013 by Sebastian Loeb's modified Peugeot 208 (which uses a conventional V6 engine) by 16 seconds. Read more...

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