{"id":121519,"date":"2021-04-13T21:25:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/worlds-first-forze-viii-hydrogen-electric-race-car-beats-the-petrol-powered-competition"},"modified":"2021-04-13T21:25:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T04:25:17","slug":"worlds-first-forze-viii-hydrogen-electric-race-car-beats-the-petrol-powered-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/worlds-first-forze-viii-hydrogen-electric-race-car-beats-the-petrol-powered-competition","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s First: Forze VIII Hydrogen-Electric Race Car Beats The Petrol-Powered Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-forze-viii-hydrogen-electric-race-car-beats-the-petrol-powered-competition.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>The \u201cForze VIII\u201d, a hydrogen-electric Le Mans style prototype, became the first-ever hydrogen-electric vehicle to beat petrol-powered cars in an official race.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The car, that was designed, built, tested and raced by a group of students from Delft University of Technology, finished second in the Supercar Challenge at the TT Circuit in Assen, the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>In a field of 43 petrol-powered race cars, the pink race car started the last race of the weekend from the fourth position. After a strong start, the car climbed quickly from fourth to second in its class. Within a few laps, driver Leo van der Eijk had already built up a 15-second gap between him and the third position. The team was able to keep up the pace for the rest of the race and secured a podium position. \u201cWe\u2019re incredibly proud of what we have accomplished today. Never before did a hydrogen-electric race car beat other cars in an official competition \u2013 let alone the kind of petrol-powered race cars we were racing against today. This podium finish is the result of not just one year, but twelve years of dedication, faith and hard work. Being a student team makes it feel almost unreal to be the first to ever accomplish this\u201d says Zhi Wei Cai, Team Manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 The \u201cForze VIII\u201d, a hydrogen-electric Le Mans style prototype, became the first-ever hydrogen-electric vehicle to beat petrol-powered cars in an official race. The car, that was designed, built, tested and raced by a group of students from Delft University of Technology, finished second in the Supercar Challenge at the TT Circuit in Assen, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}