Momentum is building towards electric vehicles being introduced into rallycross, following the strongest indication yet that organisers of the World Rallycross Championship are planning to embrace the technology.
Last year, Austrian firm STARD revealed the first electric rallycross car prototype. Powered by a 200 kW motor at each axle, the four-wheel drive machine boasts similar performance figures to that of a conventional World Rallycross Supercar (as featured in Race Tech Magazine 193). World RX boss Bellamy has already experienced the development vehicle. “I’ve been in the Manfred Stohl (STARD) car and I was very impressed, especially with the acceleration and performance,” he said.
“It was much better than I expected. Certainly as a mode of transport, electric technology is coming much quicker than people perhaps anticipated. We have to embrace it if it means that the cities around the world become cleaner places to live because of that – absolutely it has to be the way forward.”