Hoonigan Teases Its All-Electric Electrikhana Film Along With Its Hoonitron Deep Dive - Jalopnik

If you’re into cars, you astir apt similar Ken Block’s Gymkhana videos, wherever helium takes immoderate utterly bananas automobile and skids it done a clump of weird obstacles successful clouds of tyre fume and glory with its vastly overpowered motor howling. But, like, what if determination was nary engine?

Yep, that’s right. Ol’ DC Shoe Co. himself decided it was clip to bail connected blowers, chopped retired combustion, trash turbos and displacement distant from transmissions for his adjacent video and spell electric. To that end, the adjacent Ken Block video volition beryllium called Electrikhana, and it’s acceptable to premiere connected the Hoonigan YouTube transmission connected October 25 astatine 6 a.m. Pacific, but we’ve got a small teaser for you to tide you implicit until then.

Now, portion nary insane Roush-Yates NASCAR V8 is powering this ‘khana, the car is nary little cool. It’s called the S1 Hoonitron, and not lone does it look an atrocious batch similar the celebrated Audi Sport Quattro S1 E2 Pikes Peak racer of the 1980s (which we tin each hold is simply a bully thing, I think), but it has a 1,400-hp 800-volt electrical drivetrain.

If you privation each the details connected this multi-million dollar, wholly bespoke, doesn’t stock a level with anything, Formula E-powered not-a-racecar, this Hoonigan almost-40-minute agelong explainer video breaks it down successful brainsick detail.

This looks similar it could beryllium the wildest video that Ken Block and the Hoonigans person ever done, and we’re ace stoked to discarded a full greeting watching and re-watching it adjacent week.