Electric car drag race

[SportscarBruce]

While not as visually and audibly stimulating as the fat tyred gasoline burning cars of my youth (or for that matter irritating as fart-bomb muffled subcompacts), they're something to be said for discreet speed. Imagine the neck-snapping acceleration and ETs a dedicated drag car using refined elements of electric propulsion technology can achieve. No fuel bills either. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzai1atza0E

[TheFamousEccles]

cool stuff, but the box on wheels is a little bit of a chuckle. Have you seen this?

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Electric-Drag-Bike_170667.htm

Sounds really weird, like an electric drill with an attitude problem, but cool as feck.

[Mark]

If you want electric power. Was stood next to a 225 engine as it pulled away from Leeds station yesterday. The speed it moves away at is impressive, considering the weight of what it was pushing.

Electric power and electric motors can't be beaten, bascially. It's supplying them with power where the problems start!

[SportscarBruce]

cool stuff, but the box on wheels is a little bit of a chuckle. Have you seen this?

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Electric-Drag-Bike_170667.htm

Sounds really weird, like an electric drill with an attitude problem, but cool as feck.

Holy ####! Thanks for posting that.

[SportscarBruce]

If you want electric power. Was stood next to a 225 engine as it pulled away from Leeds station yesterday. The speed it moves away at is impressive, considering the weight of what it was pushing.

Electric power and electric motors can't be beaten, bascially. It's supplying them with power where the problems start!

Yep, no waiting for the power at all. A much higher level of energy efficiency too. At this point I'm wondering how electric power would translate to the Indy 500. Pitbox battery recharging? Experimental motors and batteries melting down in the heat of competition?

[Mark]

Yep, no waiting for the power at all. A much higher level of energy efficiency too. At this point I'm wondering how electric power would translate to the Indy 500. Pitbox battery recharging? Experimental motors and batteries melting down in the heat of competition?

Nah you do the same as trains and have overhead wires :D . It won't present any safety problems at all :p .

On a more serious note I've often thought that with a little bit of investment major roads like motorways could have electric lines embedded in the tarmac so when cars drive over them induction gives them power and fills up the battery, then when they go off on more minor roads without the embedded lines they run on battery power.

[SportscarBruce]

A method of current induction might be a safer bet than exposed conduits because I'm imagining charred pedestrians and happily overworked trial lawyers.

[Dave B]

Nah you do the same as trains and have overhead wires :D . It won't present any safety problems at all :p .
For motorsport what you need is a full-size version of Scalextric, with metal conductors on the racetrack. So long as there are a few crossovers or the circuit's a figure-of-8, you should still get plenty of overtaking. :D

[Daniel]

For motorsport what you need is a full-size version of Scalextric, with metal conductors on the racetrack. So long as there are a few crossovers or the circuit's a figure-of-8, you should still get plenty of overtaking. :D
and plenty of crashes. You'd also need big Monty Python foot type hands to place the cars back on the track. It could work though!

[Mark in Oshawa]

Just read an article on the Car and Driver Road test of a Tesla. 4.1 Zero to 60mph time and that whirring golf cart from hell sound....

There is potential there for electric motors in drag racing if no where else...

[SportscarBruce]

Over the IMS public address system in the year 2030;

With lap 190 in the books the running order...oh no, Andretti is melting down!!!