{"id":1370538,"date":"2022-03-11T07:46:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T12:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1370538"},"modified":"2022-03-11T07:55:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T12:55:29","slug":"nascar-to-take-a-look-at-electric-exhibition-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nascar-to-take-a-look-at-electric-exhibition-series\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR to \u201cTake a Look\u201d at Electric Exhibition Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnascar-to-take-a-look-at-electric-exhibition-series%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1370538&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Steve O\u2019Donnell said Wednesday NASCAR is \u201cexploring some opportunities\u201d to produce an exhibition series featuring electric cars.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell, in a teleconference following <a href=\"https:\/\/nascar.nbcsports.com\/2022\/03\/10\/nascar-promotes-ben-kennedy-steve-odonnell\/\">his promotion as NASCAR\u2019s chief operating officer<\/a>, emphasized that Ford, Chevrolet and Toyota have all displayed significant interest in moving toward electric cars in competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are exploring some opportunities around an exhibition series in that space,\u201d O\u2019Donnell said. \u201cAnd as everyone knows, there\u2019s a huge push across all of our (original equipment manufacturer) partners, and even potentially new OEM partners. So it\u2019s important for us to explore that space. I think there\u2019s a lot of interest from our current partners to be part of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, 6.5 million electric vehicles were sold worldwide, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canalys.com\/newsroom\/global-electric-vehicle-market-2021?ctid=2627-70a8050e26f41f72baaf6b38e200993a\">according to research published<\/a> in February from market research company Canalys. The report stated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/02\/14\/evs-dominated-super-bowl-ads-but-only-9percent-of-passenger-car-sales.html\">that was a 109% growth from 2020<\/a>. Canalys\u2019 research reported that the total global passenger car market grew 4% in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell, who previously served as the sanctioning body\u2019s executive vice president and chief racing development officer, also noted NASCAR has no set timeline toward going fully electric. His hope is for both forms of motorsport to coexist as manufacturers look to exhibit their road technologies at the racetrack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look at NASCAR as a place where, in an ideal world, we\u2019ll be all things to all people,\u201d O\u2019Donnell said. \u201cSo if you went to a NASCAR event weekend, you could see whatever type of technologies you wanted throughout a race weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Donnell also noted NASCAR fans are \u201cvery open, which is surprising to some\u201d in regards to going electric. Other power sources, like hydrogen, are being looked at by NASCAR executives as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut for us, the race has to be entertaining,\u201d O\u2019Donnell said. \u201cOur fans, they love noise. They love the sound, the feel of racing. So if we\u2019re going to get into the electric space, I promise you, it will be entertaining, and it\u2019ll be something that fits into our portfolio and something our fans will be proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talks of moving to a hybrid model with the current Next Gen car are also in play. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/racing\/nascar\/a35649994\/nascars-electric-future-is-louder-than-you-think\/\">Ahead of the 2021 Daytona 500<\/a>, one year before of the Next Gen\u2019s debut, NASCAR President Steve Phelps said he \u201cwould be surprised if a new OEM came in without some type of electrification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not talking about all-electric. I\u2019m talking about a hybrid system,\u201d he continued. \u201cI think it\u2019s something, obviously something that we\u2019re exploring now with our existing three OEMs. The question is, what is it? What\u2019s the timing of it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Next Gen car is built <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news-media\/2021\/05\/06\/ready-whenever-next-gen-car-has-ability-to-go-hybrid-electric\/\">with both hybrid and electric capabilities in mind<\/a>. NASCAR has yet to announce any concrete timeline to take the necessary steps to shift away from its traditional gas-powered power supplies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-posts-module\">\n<h3>Read more about NASCAR<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve O\u2019Donnell said Wednesday NASCAR is \u201cexploring some opportunities\u201d to produce an exhibition series featuring electric cars.O\u2019Donnell, in a teleconference following his promotion as NASCAR\u2019s chief operating officer, emphasized that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1894117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}