Electric Drag Racing

[Bruce Dorsi]

Here is a link to an interesting video.

It is a 9-1/2 min video so dial-up users may not want to bother trying to download.


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

[phat rat]

WOW

[purplepickup]

Wow is right!  That instant torque makes for awesome holeshots.  It's got to be pretty humbling to have a 12 second car and get beat by a 1972 Datsun electric car.

[tomslik]

anybody gonna comment on the no polution statement?
ok, i will.
WHERE THE HECK DOES HE THINK ELECTRICITY COMES FROM?
might be water up there but....

[wayne petty]

ok... where can i get a 7X tee shirt in black... with  

"I get a charge out of electric drag racing"...

 with a picture of a drag race with the extension cords dragging out of the back of the car or bike...  maybe a grinch just about off the edge of the picture pulling at the plugs in the wall...

[river1]

anybody gonna comment on the no polution statement?
ok, i will.
WHERE THE HECK DOES HE THINK ELECTRICITY COMES FROM?
might be water up there but....

yup

tho in some areas it may also be solar, but in most places is carbon based energy.

later jim

[Crosley.In.AZ]

A tough call on the pollution foot print  tomslik..

Electricity is still produced each minute... his car does not make a large difference in production needed.

Gasoline is produced each minute too.  So his 1 car makes little difference there too.

Now if there was 100,000 cars like him there ....  would there  be a measurable difference?

I use electricity to operate the battery tenders on my gasoline powered lawn tractor  & old cars... so am I double dipping with pollution the  foot print?

[Uncle Bob]

I use electricity to operate the battery tenders on my gasoline powered lawn tractor  & old cars... so am I double dipping with pollution the  foot print?

You get extra bonus points for being "hybrid".