$110M-worth Kevin Harvick makes bold prediction about NASCAR's EV Racing future

NASCAR veteran Kevin Harvick downplayed the possibility of electric vehicles taking over the Cup Series. He reasoned that a major part of racing is the combustion engines and that the smaller capacities of EVs will make it difficult to race.

ABB and NASCAR revealed an EV prototype earlier as part of the sport's goal to reduce its carbon footprint. Although NASCAR has traditionally focused on combustion engines and it can be quite a challenge to make the entire competition into an electric racing championship, the prototype looked promising for the future.

However, 2014 Cup Series champion Harvick does not see a future with EV in NASCAR. Speaking on his namesake podcast Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour, he said:

"I really think that the EV push came from the manufacturers and NASCAR started this project and the EVs aren't doing as well as they were when this project started."

The $110M-worth Harvick (according to Celebrity Net Worth) further explained that the only aspect he finds "exciting" about an EV is the demonstrations, otherwise, he prefers combustion engines.

"That's [EV demonstrations] really the only thing that excites me about it. There's really nothing about a race car that doesn't make noise that has any excitement for me."

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Kevin Harvick adamant that EVs have "no future" in NASCAR

Kevin Harvick is seemingly not a huge fan of electric vehicles in racing and is firm that EVs will not make it to NASCAR in the future. One of the reasons he stated for this is completely related to the aesthetics of racing, but he also feels that the cars would not be a good fit for racing in ovals.

Harvick said on the same podcast episode:

"There is no future for a NASCAR electric vehicle racing. If it does not make noise and smell like it's burning gas, there is no freaking way." [at 1:15]

Harvick then explained why EVs cannot race on oval tracks (which are a large part of racing in NASCAR), sharing personal experience from owning an EV.

"But anybody who thinks this would be a success as far as how they race- it won't go far on the ovals first off. Like on the road course, it's probably doable, but I bought an EV, I bought one of those Ford lightnings, and I'm like, I just want to see what it's all about, right? It's fun to drive, but it won't go far."

The EV stock car that was tested on the track earlier by NASCAR and ABB has a total output of 1,000 kW. It is equipped with three motors, one in the front and two in the rear. As innovative as the machinery looks, fans were unimpressed with it, and so is Kevin Harvick, seemingly.