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A drag race between a Ferrari 360 Spider and a Volvo big rig sounds pretty one sided, but this isn't just any big rig. The "Mean Green" was built by Volvo and features a twin turbo 16 liter engine good for 1900hp as well as a 200hp electric motor. The company created the truck to be the world's fastest hybrid truck and from the looks of this video they are well on their way to claiming that title.

Lola Group and Drayson Racing Technologies (DRT) today announce at the 2011 Cenex LCV event at Rockingham, UK, further detail on the groundbreaking Lola-Drayson B12/69EV all-electric prototype . The major partnership between Lola and Drayson to build an electric powered LMP (Le Mans Prototype) car was announced in July. Today, both Robin Brundle, Managing Director of Lola Group and Lord Paul Drayson, founder and Chairman of DRT release the names of the technical partners for the project and what each of the six technology companies will be contributing and developing. The official partners and suppliers on the B12/69EV are: PARTNERS BAE Systems - Structural Carbon Battery Multimatic - Dynamic Suspensions Energy Recovery Damper (DSERD) Halo IPT - Wireless Charging Cosworth - Electronic Control Systems SUPPLIERS Oxford YASA Motors - Motors Mavizen A123 - Batteries Rinehart Motion Systems - Inverters Warwick University (AMRC) - Advanced Sustainable Materials

Another TMG video giving a behind-the-scenes look at the Nürburgring Toyota EV lap record effort.

Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG) has set a new lap record for an electric vehicle (EV) at the legendary 20.8km Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit in Germany. The TMG EV P001, with 100% electric powertrain and Jochen Krumbach at the wheel, set a new lap record of 7mins 47.794secs to beat the previous lap record, which stood at 9mins 1.338secs , by a very substantial margin. Using two electric motors, the TMG electric powertrain has a top speed of 260km/h which combined with 800Nm of torque to achieve impressive speeds on the extremely challenging Nordschleife track, which includes significant elevation changes and lengthy flat-out sections. TMG's target prior to the 29 August record run was to become the first electric vehicle break the eight-minute barrier and this was achieved comfortably on a day when the notoriously changeable Nürburgring weather stayed fine, although track temperatures were relatively low. Such performance shows TMG's electric powertrain is ideal to power any fut...

The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile is the governing body for world motor sport and the federation of the world's leading motoring organisations. It is a non‐profit making association and brings together 228 national motoring and sporting organisations from 132 countries on five continents. Its member clubs represent millions of motorists and their families. In the context of an increasing environmental pressure on human activities, motorsport occupies a particular position of responsibility and has a long tradition of pioneering technological progress. The FIA holds a unique position to offer a perfect showcase for the development and the promotion of innovative solutions to ensure that mobility remains environmentally friendly. One of the federation's main objectives is to work on the creation of a new high profile championship, designed to be the flagship of the FIA's sustainable strategy: the FIA Formula E Championship ("Championship"). The FIA h...

Run 6 of 6 for Lightning Motorcycles @ Bonneville en-route to becoming the fastest electric bike in the world in its class. This was a "video run" as the camera was right in front of the riders face. There was some side wind (notice the bike is leaning) but the camera was angled a bit so it looks worse than it was. The previous run was faster at 218.6 mph and is the first electric motorcycle to go over 200 mph. Check out the black and orange markers on the sides of the track. They are 1/4 mile apart. By the way, only $0.18 worth of electricity was used on this run.