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09-25-2010, 06:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the Netherlands, Amsterdam | | | So why isn't there an electric racing series yet?
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Let's be honest, electric cars are the future. It's never going to be hydrogen, and hybrid cars are just a step in between. Besides, if we really want to improve our knowledge and use of electric driving, nothing beats competition. Just sayin... |
09-25-2010, 06:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | Because it'd really quiet, and people just don't have the time to hang around for the 4 hour recharge "pit stops", which would consist of one guy plugging the car into an outlet. Of course he'll wear a helmet.
Serious tho, they'd have to have modular swappable battery systems...
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09-25-2010, 06:37 AM
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Oil companies? LOLOLOLLOLOOL
No I dont believe they will. |
09-25-2010, 06:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belgium | | | Yeah, I'd love to see an endurance race with electric cars.
Imagine how exciting the pitstops will be. |
09-25-2010, 07:22 AM
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09-25-2010, 07:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Yorkton, Saskatchewan | | | We could make it more interesting by attaching giant tesla coils to the top of each car. Imagine the added element of strategy of discharging a portion of your own car's power to short out that of your opponent.
OR we could just race bumpercars around! Should take too much effort to convert existing speedways to accommodate them.
Then again, auto racing is pretty freaking boring any way you look at it. Best not to beat a dead horse... unless your only alternative entertainment is racing, that is.
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09-25-2010, 07:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | | they could have a suspended power grid LIKE bumpercars, with the long antenna tehter coming off the back....but it would obscure the view. And if you made it like slot cars, well, that would be awesome if you let the pit-crews control the cars, with the "driver" just "along for the ride", scared s***less and screaming the entire race. THAT I would pay to see.
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09-25-2010, 08:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: the Netherlands, Amsterdam | | | We're building an electric racecar for formula student. Last year it showed that the fastest electric racecar was 0.2 seconds faster on 0-100, which they did in 3.7 seconds. Making modular battery packs is one of the easiest problems to be tackled. Besides, there are enough electrical companies that will sponsor it. AND it's green, that means that more companies will be persuaded to spend some dough on it because of image. |
09-25-2010, 08:20 AM
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09-25-2010, 08:21 AM
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09-25-2010, 08:41 AM
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Originally Posted by hover  ...with the "driver" just "along for the ride", scared s***less and screaming, f'ed up on LSD for the entire race. THAT I would pay to see. | Agreed.
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09-25-2010, 08:47 AM
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09-25-2010, 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Muusers Let's be honest, electric cars are the future. It's never going to be hydrogen, and hybrid cars are just a step in between. Besides, if we really want to improve our knowledge and use of electric driving, nothing beats competition. Just sayin... | What? Where did you get that? The future points to nothing but hydrogen for cars. You are grossly uneducated about this subject, my friend.
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09-25-2010, 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by OOZMAN What? Where did you get that? The future points to nothing but hydrogen for cars. You are grossly uneducated about this subject, my friend. | Maybe if hydrogen wasn't so hard to store and wasn't so flammable it would actually be a usable source of power. It's low ignition point makes it hard to use in regular IC engines. Unless you're talking about fuel cells.
Also, right now, we're using hydrogen to power our cars. It's just attached to carbon molecules.
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09-25-2010, 09:43 AM
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Originally Posted by OOZMAN What? Where did you get that? The future points to nothing but hydrogen for cars. You are grossly uneducated about this subject, my friend. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Muusers We're building an electric racecar for formula student. Last year it showed that the fastest electric racecar was 0.2 seconds faster on 0-100, which they did in 3.7 seconds. Making modular battery packs is one of the easiest problems to be tackled. Besides, there are enough electrical companies that will sponsor it. AND it's green, that means that more companies will be persuaded to spend some dough on it because of image. |
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09-25-2010, 10:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belgium | | It would be interesting to see how it's going to affect driving techniques. Cornering and braking would be so spooky for today's professional drivers.
I suspect some teams will come up with "emulator"-modules to make the electric car react like one with a combustion engine. And then the FIA would change regulations on that every year. 
Kinda like a Sansamp for your electric engine.
Hey Daniel (Muusers), you mention that modular battery packs are easy. Any idea of the durability of such things?
I fear that if big money would ever come involved it would lead to teams using new batteries every races, that would not be enviromental. |
09-25-2010, 10:12 AM
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09-25-2010, 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by john turner lol. | Yeah, saw that...hahaha
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09-25-2010, 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Stinsok Well, there is always belt sander drag racing. | +1
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09-25-2010, 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Muusers Let's be honest, electric cars are the future. It's never going to be hydrogen, and hybrid cars are just a step in between. Besides, if we really want to improve our knowledge and use of electric driving, nothing beats competition. Just sayin... | Right on! Back in the early 70s lap times were at right about 4 seconds for this standard Blue King 155 ft. track. 
There are still world records being kept for this particular track model, which I used to race on in many different places in the late 60s/early 70s. The legal voltage has been increased over the years, and by 2007 the world record was ~1.4 seconds.
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