Peugeot EX1: It beats 6 records on the legendary circuit Linas-Montlhery

The year of 200 years of the brand, the concept car Peugeot EX1, 100% electric, beats 3 world records acceleration and recorded 3 new on the legendary circuit of Montlhery, the same or 404 Diesel beat several records of endurance in 1965. For this performance, the concept car was pilot adventurer and explorer Nicolas Vanier french.

* Records broken on the trail of the Montlhery Autodrome *

1/8 miles / 8.89 sec / 50.61 mph *

1/4 miles / 14.40 sec / 62.4 mph *

500 m / sec 16.81 / 107 kph *

1/2 miles / sec 23.85 / 75.46 mph *

1000 m / sec 28.16 / 127.8 kph *

1 miles / 41.09 sec / 87.6 mph *

* Subject reserved FIA homologation / Subject to FIA approval

After beating the records, will be exhibited at Peugeot EX1 AVENUE, 136 avenue des Champs-Elysees, the odds of the Peugeot i0n, Electro Mobility for animation that will take place from 22 September to 14 November 2010.

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Electric Sensations

100% electric, the new Peugeot concept car is a two-seater roadster has the look exceptional, with a futuristic styling and an original architecture. It has been designed to offer intense driving sensations and celebrate 200 years of the brand.

100% real, EX1 broken several world records for acceleration from a standing start.

Its performance from its sharp aerodynamic, its ultralight structure and its two electric motors, which confer it to maximum cumulative power of 250 kW (340 hp) and motor skills of its 4 wheels.

At the time of the imminent commercialization of i0n, Peugeot demonstrates Electricité rhymes with reality.

200 years of adventure

The powerful blast inventiveness, which runs continuously in studies of Lion Brand offices, allows a constant abundance of ideas. The most daring, the most interesting or the most exhilarating, often combine to embody a dream car extreme.

Thus the intention to create an explosive device to celebrate the 200 years of Peugeot quickly bound has another ambition: to bring to light the extent of the emotional field offered by electricity.

To realize this goal, engineers and designers have draws in the history of the brand to retain the most radical technical solutions to serve as a basis for the realization of a futuristic sports car, entirely dedicated to the feelings of its driver, and while being responsible vis-a-vis its environment ...