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Elemental Motor Company
Elemental Motor Company is a British low-volume performance motor vehicle manufacturing company that produces the Elemental RP1, a road-legal two seater sports car. The company is based in Hampshire, United Kingdom. Background Elemental Motor Company was founded in 2012 by John Begley, a former McLaren Formula 1 engineer with experience in BTCC race cars, and Mark Fowler, a former McLaren F1 Aerodynamics Engineer. The company's first car, the Elemental RP1 (or Race Project One) was introduced as a prototype at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2014. A re-engineered, production-ready model was presented at the same hill climb event in 2016. The first customer cars were delivered in 2017. Elemental Motor Company also operates as a design and engineering consultancy, producing the Apex AP-0, AP-0 EV show car for technology partner Apex Motors in 2020. In 2021, Elemental announced the development of the RP1 EV, a Battery electric vehicle, BEV variant of the RP1, in collaboration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Automotive Industry
The automotive industry comprises a wide range of company, companies and organizations involved in the design, Business development, development, manufacturing, marketing, selling, Maintenance, repairing, and Custom car, modification of motor vehicles. It is one of the world's largest industry (economics), industries by revenue (from 16% such as in France up to 40% in countries such as Slovakia). The word ''automotive'' comes from the Greek language, Greek ''autos'' (self), and Latin ''motivus'' (of motion), referring to any form of self-powered vehicle. This term, as proposed by Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Elmer Sperry (1860–1930), first came into use to describe automobiles in 1898. History The automotive industry began in the 1860s with hundreds of manufacturers pioneering the Brass Era car, horseless carriage. Early car manufacturing involved manual assembly by a human worker. The process evolved from engineers working on a stationary car to a conveyor belt system where the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Pittard
David Graeme Pittard (born 29 January 1992) is a British racing driver who competes in the Nürburgring Endurance Series and IMSA SportsCar Championship. He was part of the Frikadelli Racing Team entry which won the 2023 24 Hours of Nürburgring. Early life Pittard studied Motorsport Engineering at Brunel University. Career Early career Pittard began his circuit racing career in 2010, taking part in the Britain-based Toyota MR2 Racing Series, which he would return to in 2011. He would add a campaign in the BRSCC Sports 2000 Pinto Championship during the 2011 season, before taking on the Britcar Endurance Series in 2012. Ahead of the 2013 season, Pittard announced that he'd be taking part in the Ginetta GT5 Challenge. In his opening season of competition, Pittard scored his maiden victory in the first race of the weekend at Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone, taking two more alongside seven podiums en route to a fifth-place finish in the overall championship. Owing to his perf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
