Watch Ken Block tear up Las Vegas in his wild Audi EV in “Electrikhana”

Ken Block’s “Gymkhana” collection has gone electrical. Christened “Electrikhana,” the newest installment dropped Tuesday that includes Block driving his one-of-a-kind Audi S1 E-Tron Quattro Hoonitron up, down, and across the Las Vegas Strip.

Block’s romp by way of Sin Metropolis has been within the works for awhile. The top Hoonigan and Audi formally teamed up in late 2021 to carry Block’s tire-shredding sensibilities to EVs. Whereas earlier “Gymkhana” movies featured Subaru and Ford automobiles, Block claims Audi’s Quattro rally vehicles have been his first motorsports love.

Ken Block and his Audi S1 E-Tron Quattro Hoonitron in Electrikhana

Along with being the primary electrical automobile in a “Gymkhana” video, the Hoonitron can also be the primary automobile constructed particularly for one in all these movies. Audi developed a bespoke carbon-fiber chassis the automaker claims is constructed to FIA security requirements, and Audi’s design division penned bodywork impressed by the Audi Sport Quattro S1 E2 of Eighties Pikes Peak hill climb fame.

That automobile makes a cameo look within the video, together with a number of different Audi race vehicles, together with an Audi 90 IMSA GTO, Audi 200 Trans Am, and an R18 E-Tron Quattro Le Mans prototype that seem in non sequitur magnificence photographs on the finish of the video. 9-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen will be glimpsed in one in all his race vehicles as a witness to Block’s antics as effectively. And since that is Vegas, there’s an Elvis impersonator, too. 

The electrical powertrain, which is derived from Audi’s defunct Method E program, means there isn’t any engine noise like in earlier “Gymkhana” movies. However the Hoonitron is not precisely silent as Block slides it alongside the Strip and thru on line casino parking garages. The howl of the electrical motors is ever current, and it seems tires make fairly a little bit of noise as they’re tortured to loss of life.

The shortage of engine noise is not the one distinction. In a video on the Hoonitron, Block mentioned he needed to adapt his driving fashion to the EV. That does not appear to have slowed him down although, as you may see within the video. Give it a watch and see why you do not want a combustion engine to shred tires.