Electric vehicles have great torque and are ideally suited to rapid acceleration up to the 150 mph range - after that, just like the drag...

Electric vehicles have great torque and are ideally suited to rapid acceleration up to the 150 mph range - after that, just like the drag racing world, things get a lot more expensive and complicated. I could buy off the shelf speed parts for a 351 windsor powered mustang and build a 9 second street car for around 10k so this article has a certain hubris. I'm an electric car fan, but I'm getting a little tired of all the giddy writing about super fast electric vehicles and how they are doing things other vehicles can't. In both the ICE and the electric world we are making staggering progress in terms of performance and efficiencies. In the ICE world there is no substitute for cubic inches to go fast, in the electric world the batteries are the limiting factor. Garlits has failed to break a 200mph quarter mile so far despite serious efforts (he was first to 200 in 60's drag racing) NEDRA is really worth following for the development end of electric but it's still early days for electric performance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL82_22BKYk great bit of video of Garlits arcing out which ended his most recent attempt. Horizontal firewalls and instant kill switch are a very big deal in electric vehicles

Posted by olivermarks on Apr 2, 2015, 3:29 PM

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