Fully-charged for China: Volkswagen ID.R takes freight train to record attempt

• Fully-electric prototype takes the environmentally-sound train 11,000 kilometres to China
• Via Poland, Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan, along the Silk Road, to China
• Volkswagen uses the railway for transport to motorsport outing for the first time
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Record attempt in red – the Volkswagen ID.R heads to Tianmen Mountain with a special colour scheme

• Reminiscence in red – the ID.R electric prototype embodies the “Race the Future” motto of Volkswagen in China
• Eye-catching livery for the run up Tianmen Mountain and the Big Gate Road
• Fifth record attempt takes the ID.R to the “Middle Kingdom”

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Efficiency record in the “Green Hell” – The Volkswagen ID.R’s ground-breaking lap of the Nordschleife in figures

• Volkswagen ID.R achieves the most energy-efficient lap of all time on the Nordschleife
• Efficiency record: Through the “Green Hell” in just 6:05.336 minutes and with only 24.7 kWh
• Numbers, please: Romain Dumas was subjected to centrifugal forces…