That suspension sets ride height at 17.7 in (450 mm) and offers up to (15 in (385 mm) of travel.
"The tires will be perfectly adapted to the electric SUVs in this series so as to ensure the best possible vehicle control and safety, even at the ragged edge."Ī set of 37-in wheels spread on 79-in (1,998-mm) front and rear tracks holds those tires steady while a double-wishbone suspension with three-way adjustable mono-damper provides cushion.
"With our high-performance tires for the Extreme E series, we are providing the drivers with very high grip for acceleration, braking and precision handling on what will be very demanding tracks and trails," explained Tansu Isik, head of Continental's EMEA region marketing. Each Extreme E team will receive two sets of Continental Extreme E summer and winter tires. A set of specially engineered Continental off-road tires will help it maintain sure footing up those kinds of steep climbs. It estimates 0 to 62 mph (100 km/h) acceleration at 4.5 seconds and says the car will be able to scale gradients up to 130 percent (53 degrees). From there, teams will be able to swap in their own powertrain and select body components, such as bumpers and lights.Įxtreme E says the Odyssey 21 will offer up to 550 hp (410 kW) and 679 lb-ft (921 Nm) of torque. Each Odyssey 21 race entrant will feature the standardized Spark chassis, roll cage and crash structures, along with a Williams Advanced Engineering battery pack. Built atop a niobium-reinforced steel tube frame, the 173-inch-long (4,401-mm) Odyssey 21 was developed by Spark Racing Technology, the same folks behind Formula E cars. The official race car of the series is a very impressive design, indeed. The series will take place in five of the most remote, challenging environments on Earth: the Sahara Desert, the Amazon Rainforest, the Arctic, the Himalayas and Indian Ocean islands. With a 550-hp battery-driven powertrain and 37-in tires, this thing is ready to travel the world, biting, grabbing and sliding its way across every type of earthly surface toward the ultimate in pure-electric bragging rights.Īnnounced earlier this year, Extreme E will take electric racing off road. The new Extreme E race series, Formula E's unruly off-road brother, chose the venue to reveal the Odyssey 21 all-wheel-drive extreme rally racer. As usual, exotic supercars, race cars and vintage machines were the focus of this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed, but the event also hosted a very different debut.