Alabama electric vehicle drivers take to the track at Barber Motorsports Park

Shane Campbell is a true believer. The civil engineer from Hoover is on his third electric vehicle (EV) – all of them high-performance models. Right now he’s driving a Jaguar I-PACE. Before that, it was a BMW and an Audi e-tron. But on Oct. 15, he did something he’d never done before with any of his EVs: take it on a real racecourse. Alabama EVs take a spin around track at Barber Motorsports Park from Alabama NewsCenter on Vimeo. It was an opportunity offered to all Alabama EV drivers by Barber Motorsports Park and the Alabama Clean Fuels Coalition during the “Drive Electric Alabama, Electric Vehicle EVent.” For the modest sum of $15, EV drivers could take their car onto the track and test their driving mettle on the 17-turn, 2.38-mile course that hosts the annual Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama and multiple other motorsports races and events. “It was a lot of fun – really exhilarating,” said Campbell. He especially enjoyed the push and tug of the curvy track without the engine noise that’s typical of traditional combustion-engine vehicles. “It was uniquely quiet,” Campbell said, echoing the experience of other EV drivers at Barber. Indeed, that quite ride is a familiar feeling for anyone who drives an EV.…
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