Fri, Mar 22, 2019 - 5:50 AM
In other words, it's the polar opposite of the city, which is where EVs excel and where their quiet, electric revolution has begun to gain momentum.The fact that the I-Pace is a large sport utility vehicle doesn't help either. Like other EVs, it's relatively heavy. It weighs 2.2-tonnes, around 400kg more than a gasoline SUV of comparable size and performance.
Evans, the older brother of Formula E driver Mitch Evans, won the inaugural Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy race in Saudi Arabia last December. Every team runs a Jaguar I-Pace in the eTrophy series. Jaguar says it is the first production-based EV racing series in the world. The other surprise benefit was noise, or rather the lack of it. The I-Pace's 400hp allows it to almost reach its electronically limited maximum speed of 200km/h on Sepang's long straight, but with only wind and tyre noise and no scream of a loud engine, it's far less intimidating.