Ford has set a new benchmark at Germany’s Nürburgring, with its 2,000-horsepower electric SuperVan 4.2 completing the 12.9-mile Nordschleife in 6 minutes 48.393 seconds, securing a spot among the circuit’s ten fastest laps ever recorded.
The effort came just days after Chevrolet’s Corvette ZR1 and ZR1X made headlines by surpassing Ford’s Mustang GTD, though Ford opted to respond not with a supercar but with its purpose-built electric van.
The lap was piloted by Le Mans-winning driver Romain Dumas, who has extensive experience at the circuit and previously set the outright Nürburgring EV record in 2019 in Volkswagen’s ID.R with a time of 6 minutes 05.336.
While the SuperVan carries the silhouette of a van, it is a high-performance prototype featuring more than 2,000 hp of all-electric power. The lap places it ninth overall on the Nürburgring’s all-time leaderboard, alongside some of the fastest combustion supercars in history.
The new Nürburgring performance comes weeks after Ford’s 1,400-horsepower all-electric SuperTruck claimed the top spot at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK, where it recorded the fastest time of the event against a field of racing prototypes and supercars.
