This Sunday, scores of cars and motorbikes will zoom up and around the tight corners of Colorado’s famed Pikes Peak. Among them will be a new, all-electric car from Volkswagen specifically designed for the annual International Hill Climb.
The German automaker’s I.D. R Pikes Peak, which was unveiled in April, will debut on Sunday, equipped with two electric motors that allow it to accelerate to 60 miles per hour in under 2.5 seconds. The car was faster than any other vehicle up the first 5.2 miles of the course in qualifying on Wednesday.
In designing the I.