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New World Record For Electric Car Speed: 204.2 MPH
Dupple writes with this excerpt from the BBC: "Drayson Racing Technologies has broken the world land speed record for a lightweight electric car. Its Lola B12 69/EV vehicle hit a top speed of 204.2mph (328.6km/h) at a racetrack at RAF Elvington in Yorkshire. ... The previous 175mph record was set by Battery Box General Electric in 1974. Drayson Racing is not the only electric vehicle-maker hoping to use motorsport to spur on adoption of the technology. Last week Nissan unveiled the Zeod RC (Zero Emission On Demand Racing Car), which can switch between electric and petrol power. The firm intends to enter the vehicle into next year's Le Mans 24 race saying the competition would act as a 'challenging test bed' for technologies that could eventually find their way into road cars." This video from last year introduces the Lola; Drayson's YouTube channel has plenty more footage, too.
That's not fast. the tgv has already done 574 kph. (360mph) Electric engines are capable of MUCH more.
Can't drive for 8 hours without a recharge, can't charge in less than 500 microseconds, doesn't cost less than the shittiest Ford = piece of shit.
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I need 303 miles of range from a EV the same size and cost as a minivan.
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Something something how can a car without a tranny be a Lola?
(yeah I know electric cars have a transmission but they don't have a gearbox, which is what most people refer to as transmission)
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They're not trying to sell you this car. It's a proof of concept whose purpose is to dispel the myth that electric cars can't be made to perform well.
Can't wait to see the pit stop times for this thing. Do those stopwaches measure in hours?
It topped out at 24 mph.
I am sad I don't have any mod points to give negative shit right now, especially with all the people drinking haterade and talking shit about electric cars - this is a subject I hold close to my heart.....
Yes we are behind on tech, a 1911-1916 Detroit Motors electric car was doing ~80 miles on a charge, with the best test being 211 miles (340 km) from a single charge - however with small scale wind and solar systems we can manage 90% of consumer and urban driving requirements without relying on a single drop of oil from the middle east. I am from Australia - its 3:10am here (yes I've had a drink) and personally whatever happens over there doesn't affect us apart from catching the flu when America sneezes - but this type of technology is what will make the world free one day.
Brand new Electric cars are $100k, but for $20k you can buy an old can and convert it to electric with 200km "down under" range (~120 miles) and it will consume a hell of a lot less overall energy than a combustion motor - you guys in the USA will probably get the most expensive part - the batteries - cheaper than we would in Australia and your currency is now stronger.
Electric cars will always have more instant torque and power than unleaded, ethenol, DIEsel or Gas (LPG, Natural Gas) - and they will kick ass when the time is right. Look up "White Zombie EV" and "EV West" cars for some real education on what is available on the market already.
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I'm not impressed until they make a solar-powered car that can go 200mph.
Why not make a sports car for dirt roads instead? At least it would be usable outside of perfectly flat circuits.
Ok fine. A racecar won't go full throttle all the time on the racetrack. But still at least 50%. That roughly enough energy for a grant total of THREE laps ... on a really short racetrack.
Sorry, but this is a stunt and in no way practical whatsoever. That's because it runs on batteries and batteries have crappy energy density. It's just the wrong kind of technology for this purpose. Stop kidding yourselves.
This may work with fuelcells - but those require much more electricity to make and store the hydrogen and generate electricity from hydrogen than simply charging a battery, which you can do with some 95% efficiency, rather than about 33% for hydrogen/fuelcells. So the hydrogen gambit may work, but it's an even greater and more idiotic waste of energy, which isn't exactly what the purpose of this whole thing was in the first place.
No one made fun of it yet but Tata gets laughed at by loads of you Brits within a few posts.
I think in order to claim you can drive 202 mph, you should be able to drive at that speed for an hour. Otherwise you are really getting far less actual miles per hour when you have to stop every 5 minutes and charge for 10 hours.
Really, its speed is more like 202 miles/week.
Just a reminder, before you slam me, scan for sarcasm first.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
Emission on demand is just stupid, zero emission on production (of drive power) is the only worthwhile goal..
Miles.... Seriously?
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only 200 mph? i find this a bit low, because the world record for electric 1/10 scale is about 120 mph.
So if that little car was full size, it would be going 1200 mph.
I immediately thought about the drag racing electric motorcycle I had read about years back, the KillaCycle. Well, apparently those guys designed the battery packs for the Drayson in TFA, which is pretty neat. It's also the bike that the inventor crashed while trying to do a burnout for some reporters... but whatever, still cool.
World Records are a dime a dozen. 200mph is impressive in an electric but 200mph in an electric has happened a few times in the last 10 years. This is nothing new or that note worthy, just a good hype machine.
Here's my idea. Don't take all that time and effort making an electric car drive fast. Take a hot wheels car and launch it out of an electric rail gun at about 10,000MPH and then spend all the time and effort convincing the judges that that counts.
I think in order to claim you can drive 202 mph, you should be able to drive at that speed for an hour. Otherwise you are really getting far less actual miles per hour when you have to stop every 5 minutes and charge for 10 hours.
Really, its speed is more like 202 miles/week.
Just a reminder, before you slam me, scan for sarcasm first.
Most cars wouldn't be able to maintain 300 KPH for 1 hour without refilling. Hell, most cars wont reach 200 KPH let alone maintain it.
Doing 300 KPH for 1 hour is nothing like doing 300 KM per week as:
1) You'll be doing 300 at lower speeds, thus using less fuel (gross oversimplification, but a vast improvement over the Parents analogy).
2) You'll also be stopping and starting a lot more.
I track my lightly modified DC5 and at 250 KPH I'd go through 50 litres of RON 98 in less than half an hour as I'm doing 8000 RPM in 6th gear (I can easily see my fuel economy being 100L/100KM). However in normal conditions 50L will last for 550 KM with an average speed of 56.5 KPH using approx 9.2L/100KM. The DC5 is a 2L 4 banger, Turbo's and 6cyl cars are even worse, your fuel economy at high RPM is crap, regardless of if it's petrol or electric.
Now if you wanted it to run for 300 KM at 60 KPH you might have a point. But top speed is not sustained cruising speed.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
My mentor and I built a RC model car that on smooth concrete could do 105MPH, and sustain it for 8 - 10 minutes. It had so much torque that 'punching it' off the line turned it into a 'ground-bloom-flower'. Factor in the car's scale MPH (1/12 scale) and it was doing 1260 (scale) MPH.
I used to impress my nerd-friends by 'drag-racing' cars going down the street (at 25 - 30 MPH) and passing them before they had gone 100 meters. That is the car being raced was going 25 MPH and the RC car was going from zero to whatever was needed to overtake the fullsize car before it got through to the end of the block. That wasn't even using the most advanced motor drivers available back then, Back then PWM DC motor drivers were terrible for reliability and performance because FETs were too small and power transistors had more losses than a simple high wattage rheostat driver.
That was with NiCad batteries, resistor-based DC control, and traditional DC motor tech back in the late 70's. If I were to build that RC car now.... it would easily do 205 (real) MPH due to improvements in battery tech, and motor tech in the last 35 years. The only thing impressive about this car is that it is a full-sized Le Mans compliant vehicle.