A few photos from today...
That LEAF was stripped out and I had a passenger
A selection of cars in the AE racing paddock, and forumers.
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A few photos from today...
That LEAF was stripped out and I had a passenger
A selection of cars in the AE racing paddock, and forumers.
I had no idea this 'Alternative-Energy-Racing' event was running until midday when I checked this forum, and promptly grabbed my keys and shot over to Santa-Pod raceway.
Was a fascinating day out, and good to put faces to names and chew the fat about EVs in the UK.
Below are some slightly blurry screen grabs from a video shot on my cell phone, and an 'very pink' Leaf !!
Does anyone have pics of the two Tesla's on the start line ??
I didn’t realise that the worlds fastest street-bodied EV was in our presence today ... until it went up the track at sub-light speed.
Turns out "Black-Current III", an EV VW Beetle (kinda) can do a standing qtr in a staggering 9.51s @ 135mph.
What's even more amazing is how two brothers built it on a tiny budget here in the UK, including all the engineering, electrics, BMS, and tweaked Zilla 2K controller, and all the support software.
The performance of this homebrew EV simply destroys the timings from all $1m supercars.
It runs twin-inline netgain 9" impulse motors, and can handle 2,200 amps or 700,000 watts of power from a lithium-cobalt block, and does 0-60mph in 1.6seconds. Blimey.
To understand just how fast this EV is, check out this amazing rear-view vid clip, especially at about 1m15s :-
Last edited by PV4EV; 05-12-2012 at 06:41 PM.
I believe the reason why the Mustang chickened out against the Tesla was that it was apparently beaten by that pink LEAF earlier in the day
The beetle famously beat Don Cochrane in a Roadster a couple of years ago. That got on EV news sites. I didn't realise they also now gone faster than White Zombie today because when I asked in the morning they'd just run a 10.0. That's worth shouting about.
That mustang was all mouth and no trousers, whilst the Leaf was more of a a sassy vamp !Originally Posted by dpeilow
I believe the reason why the Mustang chickened out against the Tesla was that it was apparently beaten by that pink LEAF earlier in the day.
Yeah, I thought White Zombie held the record, hence my amazement when Black Current appeared, nonchalantly sets an astonishing world record of 9.51s, and then the driver goes off for a cup of tea !The beetle famously beat Don Cochrane in a Roadster a couple of years ago. That got on EV news sites. I didn't realise they also now gone faster than White Zombie today because when I asked in the morning they'd just run a 10.0. That's worth shouting about.
Heres a shaky 2010 clip of an older version Black Current ( was only 11.6s back then) beating a Roadster, but the Tesla still manages an official 12.6sec ss qtr :-
Love how you can see PV4EV's car under load here.
Love how you can see PV4EV's car under load here.
Good find - thanks !
The car is squatting down ... because I need to lay off the doughnuts
But seriously, that is an interesting capture. I did have TC switched off, and managed to produce quite alot of chirps from the rears.
What were the times and terminal speeds from this run?
Not sure, but the times usually appear on the AEracing website
I'm gutted I couldn't go this year. I'd planned to race my leaf, but after arriving back from Israel on the Thursday, and with another event booked for the family over the weekend we decided it was just too much to split up and take one kid to each event (especially as I was kinda beat and didn't fancy driving 150 miles on my own.)
Next year, we hope to be back there
Really glad to see that the Leafs which ran this year did a really good time, and hoping to see if we can persuade SP to do another AE race in the fall.
Not sure, but the times usually appear on the AEracing website
I'm gutted I couldn't go this year. I'd planned to race my leaf, but after arriving back from Israel on the Thursday, and with another event booked for the family over the weekend we decided it was just too much to split up and take one kid to each event (especially as I was kinda beat and didn't fancy driving 150 miles on my own.)
Next year, we hope to be back there
Really glad to see that the Leafs which ran this year did a really good time, and hoping to see if we can persuade SP to do another AE race in the fall.
We both did half a dozen runs each, best times were a modest 13.3 and 13.0 (non-sport, sport) and both of us had consistently bad 0.6s reaction times !
If you look at this the end of your 2010 video at around 1m20s, it shows a Roadster Sport being driven by Sam (the Black-Current III driver) and armed with his super fast reaction time he gets an excellent 12.6s at 102.89mph.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3LjELMUyHQ
This puts the Roadster ahead of many recent supercars including the Ferrari 360 at 12.7s *, and the Lamborghini Countach 5000QV at 12.9s *.
Naturally both of these cars have claimed performance reserves in the 100-200mph bracket, but in practice this is a waste of engineering effort and more about bragging rights...whereas Tesla have put all the performance into the useable speed band of 0-90mph, the rest being a waste in the real world (says me, who's had a few 200mph capable cars
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* Source :-
Ferrari 360 Modena information on SupercarWorld.com
Lamborghini Countach QV information on SupercarWorld.com
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