Autoblog has an article about
Monster Tajima raceing up Pikes Peak in an EV.
Looking at
Wikipedia, the current overall record fastest climb is
9:46.164 in a Hyundai Genesis Coupe.
Nobuhiro Tajima's Suzuki SX4 during his record breaking 9:51 run in 2011
Tajima was trying to beat his record of
9:51.278 in an all electric hill climb car (pictured at the top). Unfortunately, technical issues prevented him from doing that this year. The fastest electric ended up being Fumio Nutahara with a time of
10:15.380 in a Toyota P002 EV racer.
I predict that, eventually, the fastest machine up to the top of Pikes Peak will be an all electric vehicle. And one day there will be a special category for "fastest Internal Combustion Engine climb", just to give ICE's a chance to win something.
(Okay, perhaps I'm reaching a bit there, but I think that it will eventually happen!)
