Electric Drag Racing

[triumphrick]

This seemed pretty neat....

Maybe time to retrofit the TR-3....

http://www.opb.org/programs/ofg/videos/view/56-Electric-Drag-Racing

 

[ziggy]

Re: Electric Drag Racing

sure wish i could open the link. i'm interested as my first car was a 72 datsun 1200.... mighty fine car short of the body that rusted away into the sunset...

 

[Limited-Time]

Re: Electric Drag Racing

The link worked for me last night.??

Anyhow It's pretty cool and highly impressive!!............I wonder how much $$$ and time he has invested. And would be interested in seeing it preform as a daily driver, in a real life environment.........................say in Central Minnesota where sustained sub freezing and even sub zero temps are common for weeks at a time in the winter months.

 

[triumphrick]

Re: Electric Drag Racing

And would be interested in seeing it preform as a daily driver, in a real life environment.........................say in Central Minnesota where sustained sub freezing and even sub zero temps are common for weeks at a time in the winter months.

WHAT!! WHO'S REAL LIFE ENVIRONMENT

Oh, that's right. People actually do live in that environment.

Anyway, how would that thing generate any heat??

And don't know what happened to the link, it was working last night when I posted it.

 

[tashasdaddy]

Re: Electric Drag Racing

i change the link to a direct link, it works now.

 

[ziggy]

Re: Electric Drag Racing

it works now.

yep, it does....
way cool.
yep, that'd be my first car. though mine was blue.... a datsun 1200....
mighty speedy little 1200 i'd say.... cool technology...

 

[xxturbowesxx]

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i used to race Rc cars when i was a kid and i had a Nitromethane powered car and slowly but surely the electric guys caught up.. now with lithium ion batteries and brushless motors they cannot be touched by an internal combustion engine. I have a Electric rc car that will run 75mph. its cool to see the technology on a larger scale. I think you will eventually see cars get 300 miles on a 1 hr charge.


100+mph rc boat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR-6dwFVlLs

keep your eye on the race

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

 

[SnappingTurtle]

Re: Electric Drag Racing

Nice post. Had one of these lil?Datsuns in the 80's that I ran slomon races with.