Today, we had the honor to be interviewed by Jean-Jacques Bourdin of France, who has a reputation for making politians sweat and tumble verbaly during his national radio shows. You can listen to the show by clicking here for the RMC podcast. Our interview is at the last 7 minutes of the show, so you need to put the curser pretty much to the end of the podcast bar. And, yes, it is all in French!

The expert crew of Le Mans Racing magazine was with us during our recent testing in Le Castellet. You can now read about the GreenGT on five great pages, including the origin of our project and the coming goals, as well as the feedback from opour test driver Christian Pescatori. We are very happy to have such a highly skilled driver like Christian with us. After winning Sebring and finishing second in Le Mans twice, plus many other race successes, Christian Pescatori sure qualifies to test the first ever all electric prototype. Rush to your newstand or order your copy directly via the Le Mans Racing magazine website!

The Swiss technology news website is featuring the GreenGT. Read more about our car on Largeur.Com

The GreenGT is based on a carbon fiber chassis. Developped and built in Switzerland, it is the first step toward tomorrows electric racecars, be it for sprint or endurance races. It demonstrates today that EV racecars can compete at the highest level of todays thermical competition cars.

In order to sustain the rigors of racing at the track, GreenGT relies on Fischer Connectors. As Fischer states on their homepage, when it comes to go beyond the limits, to rely on high precision technology is a must. The greatest achievers consider Fischer Connectors as a valuable partner to team up with. They trust our brand to fully support their efforts in every challenge they undertake. Innovative by tradition, Fischer Connectors has been developing high performance connectors for more than 50 years. Reliable, rugged, sealed, miniature, our products are designed to resist to the toughest conditions.

Up until now, the tyres of endurance race cars were heated up to 70°C in small tents by a flow of hot air coming from a gas burning space heater. The resulting smell, fumes and noise polluted the surroundings and the whole system was a safety risk in the paddocks. Because of these reasons, such heating will be banned in the coming years by the rules of the Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This is to the disliking of the teams, since a car on cold tyres will drift and may therefore be a safety concern for the other cars on the track. Hence the request from the Le Mans Series to come up with a « green » tyre heating system.

GreenGT now focuses on three product strategies:

1. Continue development of the GreenGT in order to bring it to a Le Mans compatible level using quick battery changes
2. Downscale the concept to offer a turnkey electric drive train  at a competitve price for a monotype racing class
3. Develop and build the GreenGT Twenty-4 supercar, based on the current innovative and exclusive GreenGT technology.

The patented GreenGT drive train, that includes a dynamic differential, specially designed for electrical applications. Its unique on board electronics, custom designed at a GP2 level for electric race car applications. The integration and packaging of 100 MJ Li-ION batteries in a race car chassis, without major added weigh. The implementation of safety devices and routines to protect the driver, mechanics and track marshals. GreenGT will continue its development and testing campaign throughout the summer and make the first roll-outs in public in late august and early September.

Formula 1 introduced the hybrid systems in 2009. Zytek and Peugeot engineered and built hybrid solutions for endurance racing. We think that the hybrid is only an intermediate stage. With the coming oil shortages, there will be increasing interest in racecars powered by renewable energies. Manufacturers of electrical cars and their suppliers will look into using electrical racecars as demonstrators of the technology. The publics sensitivity for clean cars grows every day. This again is a high potential for communication around this project. The noise level and pollution should be adapted to new standard for racing cars worldwide.