For the very first time at any time, Ken Block and the famed Gymkhana series goes electric powered. Ladies and gents, welcome to Electrickhana.
Ken Block has made 10 wildly prosperous Gymkhana movies with over a billion views on YouTube wherever he flexes his remarkable driving capabilities powering the wheel of relatively really serious devices. All of these machines till now operate on fossil fuels.
Ken Block and Hoonigan are using the Audi S1 Hoonitron to the superior-stakes playground of Las Vegas for their all-new video.
The S1 Hoonitron reportedly has 6,000 Nm (4,425 lb-ft) of torque which is no match for individuals weak tyres.
The video description states it operates an 800-volt procedure and although there is no mention of the power it does not definitely make a difference.
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The Audi S1 Hoonitron has two electric motors, all-wheel push, power galore, a carbon fiber chassis, and totally complies with the safety benchmarks of the FIA, motorsport’s governing human body. Audi Sport made it as a just one-of-a-type auto exclusively for Ken Block. Its body shell, for which Audi Design and style led by Marc Lichte is dependable, quickly evokes reminiscences of the famous Audi Sport quattro S1 with which the 4 rings billed to the top in the famed Pikes Peak hill-climb race. Ken Block and his group engaged in close exchange with the Audi departments in the course of the progress of the automobile.
“With the S1 Hoonitron we broke solely new floor at Audi,” says Oliver Hoffmann, Member of the Board for Specialized Development at AUDI AG. “Developing a thoroughly electrical prototype for the exceptional demands of our associate Ken Block was a huge and fascinating challenge to which the total workforce rose with flying colors. It is fantastic to see how ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ is introduced in an all-new natural environment.”