{"id":91882,"date":"2019-06-10T13:22:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T20:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/volkswagen-obliterates-nurburgring-electric-record"},"modified":"2019-06-10T13:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T20:22:37","slug":"volkswagen-obliterates-nurburgring-electric-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/volkswagen-obliterates-nurburgring-electric-record","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen obliterates N\u00fcrburgring electric record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9iZY5IMn0wg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen built its ID.R with the intention of showing what the heads in its electric drive division are capable of, and it only took a few months after its <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/volkswagen-reveals-pikes-peak-id-r\/54315\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unveiling<\/a> for the zero-emission race car to <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/volkswagen-id-r-pikes-peak-all-time-record\/55177\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claim a record<\/a> at the iconic Pikes Peak. The twin-motor electric racer has now built on this with yet another momentous showing, this time at N\u00fcrburgring-Nordschleife, where it has broken the lap record for electric vehicles by a whopping 40.564 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/volkswagen-nurburgring-electric-record\/59970\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volkswagen built its ID.R with the intention of showing what the heads in its electric drive division are capable of, and it only took a few months after its unveiling for the zero-emission race car to claim a record at the iconic Pikes Peak. The twin-motor electric racer has now built on this with yet [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91882","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=91882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}