Electric Car 2.8 sec to 100kph

[k14]

Electric cars will become more mainstream, but the dilemma is the load that they incur on the electricity grid - in the US, even with coal and nuclear power, most power companies are paying local businesses (with rebates) for reducing their demand - the cost of new power stations is just huge. Coal and nuclear power are about the worst and ungreenest sources of power you could imagine. In NZ, most of our power comes from renewable resources, this increases as each coal powered station is grandfathered.

Grandfathered?? And replaced with what? A wind farm that generates power 30% of the time and take 5 years to get a resource consent. Yes currently we do make 55% (give or take) of power from renewable but if every second person buys an electric car where is the extra going to come from??

The guy in the story said in 10 years they will be everywhere. I'd love to see that happen but it is just way too optimistic. Maybe 30. For a start how many cars now are on the road that are less than 10 years old???

[dipshit]

The atom is quick off of the line, granted, but a CBR600?? It would have absolutely destroyed the atom after they'd got some speed up. Given both vehicles using street tyres, a bike like that has incredible turning and braking too,

You obviously have no idea what a good handling lightweight open-seater is capable of. Such a car will have no problem out-braking a bike into corners and also carry higher apex speeds at the same time.

this is not the first time top gear has done such a thing, believe me.

Other times they have had bike vs car (1098 vs Lamborghini for example) the bike won. Do you think that was staged as well?

[EJK]

I wonder how future will run the F1 or any endurance races. Pit stop for a recharge? Cool!

[racefactory]

You obviously have no idea what a good handling lightweight open-seater is capable of. Such a car will have no problem out-braking a bike into corners and also carry higher apex speeds at the same time.




Other times they have had bike vs car (1098 vs Lamborghini for example) the bike won. Do you think that was staged as well?

Yes the atom would brake better and turn better but for the straight line speed of a CBR? To lose by 4 seconds on a small track like that- lol there is certainly something going on! I've seen it all before on top gear. It's rediculous.

The lambo one was so staged it's not funny, they all are of course- they're only out to make money... Go read some performance magazines if you want to see some real tests of this kind. Not even a modded caterham super 7 can beat a stock gsxr1000 on bruntingthorpe.

[Badjelly]

Burning Hydrogen is a no-no by the way, as H2O is the by product. And as you know, weight for weight, water vapour is the worst green-house gas.

Nope. Water vapour does account for most of the greenhouse effect, but, unlike CO2, it is cycled quickly in the atmosphere. So any extra water vapour you add will be rained out in a short time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenho...of_water_vapor
http://mustelid.blogspot.com/2005/01...-dominant.html

[dipshit]

Yes the atom would brake better and turn better but for the straight line speed of a CBR? To lose by 4 seconds on a small track like that- lol there is certainly something going on!

Ummm... did you notice how slowly the CBR pulled away compared to how quickly the atom shot by going into a corner? Because it was a small track the CBR had little chance to use its speed advantage.

The lambo one was so staged it's not funny, they all are of course- they're only out to make money...

But the 1098 won with its acceleration and speed advantage. Where a good car will have it all over a bike is braking deep into corners. Bikes are shit at this in comparison.

[Pixie]

Imagine however, a world where we had super efficient solar panels on our houses, and where we actually sold power back to the grid. Think one supercomputer versus the power of the internet (distributed model). If we could do that, and STORE the power (which is the real issue), then electric cars would work well. If you measure in kilowatt hours, the sun has more power each hour, than the entire planet would consume in about 18 months...

Imagine however, a world where we generate power by sticking cables up leprechaun's bums....

Unfortunately, like "super efficient solar panels" they don't exist outside of science fiction

[Pixie]

You obviously have no idea what a good handling lightweight open-seater is capable of. Such a car will have no problem out-braking a bike into corners and also carry higher apex speeds at the same time.




Other times they have had bike vs car (1098 vs Lamborghini for example) the bike won. Do you think that was staged as well?

The Ariel Atom is a great handling car.

That electric thing has 500 kg + of batteries to haul around corners