al mcguire Posted May 9, 2014 Report Share Posted May 9, 2014 Nowhere is the silence of electric vehicles more apparent than at the dragstrip. When Top Fuel cars regularly hit 150 decibels and shake your body to its core, their electric equivalents sail down the strip with an eerie silence. They're not quite as quick as 8,000-horsepower Top-Fuelers either, though Don 'Big Daddy' Garlits's new record proves they certainly aren't slow. According to Wired, Garlits and his electric dragster have just set a new 184.01 mph, 7.258-second quarter-mile at the Bradenton Motorsports Park in Florida. That's a little short of the 200 mph pass Garlits was aiming for, but has still broken the previous record by 24.16 mph. Not many electric vehicles can make supercars look slow--though Tesla's Model S gets close--but Garlits's dragster trumps them all with six 7.5-inch DC electric motors. Total output is 1,500 kilowatts--equivalent to about 2,000 horsepower. Juice is provided by four lithium-polymer battery packs, at 420 volts and 3,600 amps--and living your life a quarter mile at a time, there's no such thing as range anxiety... https://autos.yahoo.com/news/2-000-horsepower-electric-dragster-sets-drag-record-160009835.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old school Posted May 9, 2014 Report Share Posted May 9, 2014 Very cool. Back in the late 1960's, I worked at Orange County International Raceway (OCIR) and Big Daddy was the man. Glad to see him alive and taking it to the next level. CrewC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryF Posted May 9, 2014 Report Share Posted May 9, 2014 My favorite Tshirt at the drags is "What could go wrong in 3 seconds. " Larry f Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirror Posted May 9, 2014 Report Share Posted May 9, 2014 The interesting thing is that it's powered by two NP-1's through a BDS. Big Daddy Don wants to upgrade to the one with the USB port for his Iphone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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