Electric Car 2.8 sec to 100kph

[Winston001]

According to an item on 60 Minutes a NZ guy has built an electric car which can accelerate through 100kph in 2.8 seconds. It's a sort of sports car and is one-off. Still, that is staggering. It's faster than Ferrari, McLaren, or Lamborghini. If - and I say if, it is true, then the only faster production car is the Bugatti Veyron. Farg!

Even among motorcycles there are only a few such as the Suzuki GSXR 1100 W which would beat it.

[scumdog]

Saw that, kinda seems wrong to have all that grunt and no noise!

[wbks]

I thought he said it was in the 3 sec range. But the battery lasts about 160kms (or something really short,) and then it costs something like 70k for a new one. I would think you could make a lot of petrol powered bikes that would smoke it no prob if they built it to go fast as fcuk and only last 160ks. I thought its cool how there is full power all the time though, no waiting for the torque to peak, its all there from 5km/ph to 100

[EJK]

No petrol motorcycle in the future? That sucks.....

[Elysium]

Please....

http://images.search.yahoo.com/image...sigb=135pi1nnv

[pete376403]

replace or recharge the battery after 160km?

The tesla battery doesn't need to be replaced for five years, but it needs recharging after about 220miles

http://www.teslamotors.com/performance/perf_specs.php

[slofox]

According to an item on 60 Minutes a NZ guy has built an electric car which can accelerate through 100kph in 2.8 seconds. It's a sort of sports car and is one-off. Still, that is staggering. It's faster than Ferrari, McLaren, or Lamborghini. If - and I say if, it is true, then the only faster production car is the Bugatti Veyron. Farg!

Even among motorcycles there are only a few such as the Suzuki GSXR 1100 W which would beat it.

If you are talking about the "Tesla Roadster" it is true enough - I have heard interviews with the maker......but the Tesla has a slower 0-100 time in commercial production...maybe a different car?
All the same the Tesla sounds pretty far out....

"How powerful is the acceleration? A quick story to illustrate. A favorite trick here at Tesla Motors is to invite a passenger along and ask him to turn on the radio. At the precise moment we ask, we accelerate. Our passenger simply can't sit forward enough to reach the dials. But who needs music when you're experiencing such a symphony of motion. "

Go to www.teslamotors.com for more....

[No FX]

According to an item on 60 Minutes a NZ guy has built an electric car which can accelerate through 100kph in 2.8 seconds. It's a sort of sports car and is one-off.

I only half watched it and it looked to me like an Ariel Atom but with an elec motor, and 2.0L petrol powred Ariel Atoms will do 0-100kph in 2.9sec with gear changes.

Maybe if I ask Santa nicely.......

[wbks]

I should obviously lay off the vodka jellies then, cause I herd replace the battery every ___ kms but yea i think it was recharge every 220 or something

[Winston001]

I only half watched it and it looked to me like an Ariel Atom but with an elec motor, and 2.0L petrol powred Ariel Atoms will do 0-100kph in 2.9sec with gear changes.

Maybe if I ask Santa nicely.......

Yeah you are right. Its not on the TV3 website yet.......but AHA...Google is your friend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrightspeed_X1

[slofox]

For Christmas I have asked Santa for an Ariel Atom, and a Tesla.......

[madbikeboy]

I only half watched it and it looked to me like an Ariel Atom but with an elec motor, and 2.0L petrol powred Ariel Atoms will do 0-100kph in 2.9sec with gear changes.

Maybe if I ask Santa nicely.......

Yeah, it was.

Just out of interest, the litre sports bikes would still beat it. The Atom goes well to 60mph, and then sort of runs out, bike keeps accelerating much harder to top speed.

Electric cars are really interesting, they have huge torque. Latest battery technology is about increasing life, but it's also about reducing internal resistance (a capacitor can deliver huge power very quickly, an old lead acid battery (think deep cycle marine battery) can provide power for longer). The best of both worlds would be, err, both worlds.

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.

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...

[nigel]

A guy at work is part of a team that's trying to build an electric racecar. Hundreds of kgs of batteries mounted on the outside for cooling. The coolest thing about the car is not the huge torque, but that it can apply max torque throughout the entire revrange. It's only got two gears and the gearchanges are done by computer, so you just put the pedal to the metal and scream

[madbikeboy]

A guy at work is part of a team that's trying to build an electric racecar. Hundreds of kgs of batteries mounted on the outside for cooling. The coolest thing about the car is not the huge torque, but that it can apply max torque throughout the entire revrange. It's only got two gears and the gearchanges are done by computer, so you just put the pedal to the metal and scream

That's pretty neat. I've always wanted to build a solar powered car for that trek across Australia...

[racefactory]

That car may be quick to 0-60mph like you say but after that it will be shit, they all have fuck all for speed beyond that.

To be honest the 0-60mp/100kph test is such bullshit, it tells you fuck all about the performance of the car. I get sick of hearing about it on top gear and the bullshit car programs. The proper test is 0-100mph/160kph... that test is actual useful performance info.