Nissan is returning to the world’s greatest road race in 2014 — in an electric vehicle.
During the opening ceremony of Nissan’s motorsports headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, President and CEO Carlos Ghosn announced plans to return to the 24 Hours of LeMans next year, when the automaker will occupy the highly desirable “Garage 56″ slot that houses the world’s most innovative and experimental race cars.
“We will return to LeMans with a vehicle that will act as a high-speed test bed in the harshest of environments for both our road car and race car electric vehicle technology,” Ghosn said.
Nissan’s next stab at LeMans follows its 2012 campaign where its radical DeltaWing race car kept pace with the top prototype teams before being knocked off track by a Toyota and dragged to the pits.
Nissan hasn’t revealed what form its next-generation LeMans prototype will take, but sources indicate it will be a zero-emissions vehicle loosely based on the all-electric Leaf RC racer we drove last year. Current battery and charging technology isn’t up to rigors of a 24-hour race, so expect to see something innovative (battery swapping?) that could turn endurance racing on its head.
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