340 Hp 4wd PROEV Lithium Polymer Electric car racing SCCA

[superart01]

That looks really cool. I have a couple questions if you don't mind.

Are you getting 340 HP peak or continuous? From what I have researched the Seimens motors are only capable of about 90HP continuous. If it is peak, how long can you sustain that power?

Are you using a transmission or direct drive?

How much range do you get?

Have you implemented regen braking?

What controller are you using?

Thanks.

[ez3usx2]

cool video thanks for posting it.death to the dirty oil company thugs!!!the world needs more people like you and less people who would throw sticks at people like you.good job i rate u a 5 star*****.keep up the good work your a good person.

have you seen the 59 lincoln neil young is converting to electric?instead of plugging it in to recharge you plug it in to power your house.check it out@lincvolt.

[Gruntol5]

- and when you run out of power, how long is your pitstop to refuel? 4-6 hours?

340 bhp against some small 4-cylinder cars, yet still unable to overtake them. Not that impressive.

[focovere]

It was running at half power. 340 bhp/2= 170 bhp....

[flee2010]

The reason it takes so long to refuel is because battery technology hasn't had anywhere NEAR the time or MONEY big oil has for research and production. Why can people like focovere do this but Ford,GM,etc etc can't/won't? Who is getting paid off?

[AlRoderick]

The reason it takes so long to refuel is the voltage limit imposed by the grid. Lithium batteries can actually charge much faster, but the wall socket usually stops at 240V/30A max. Higher voltage plugs and appropriately-beefy chargers would do the job faster, but the electrical service available at the consumer level is too low-powered. The batteries in the Chevy Volt, due out next year from General Motors, could indeed charge in 30 minutes if high voltage service was available.

[shaurz]

Not really, you're comparing two fundamentally different things. Refuling is analagous to replacing the battery with another pre-charged battery, not recharging. You don't need conspiracy theories about big oil suppressing electric cars to account for the current limitations of the technology.

[Paxmax]

are you really sure about that:

watch?v=DzImGvY7e1Y

I agree, we still have some practical limits to range per day with the current way the city's are planned. but what if every parking meter also had a electrical output...? what if the auto industry really tried to mass produce parts...? ..but they do not.

[sm7tjc]

"Super capacitors" are coming rapidly. Soon you could have an electric car that can be charged in less than 2 minutes (If you have a source that can put out lots of current).

[liberalxinxamericax]

running at half power = 170 hp and battery pack switchings don't take nearly 4 hours

[videocruzer]

fucken red neck...

some mit guys have played with the chemistery from a123 systems and are pulling 200 and 400c from one 2.3amp cell.

thats 400 x 2.3= 920 amps from one 3.3 volt cell. they also can charge at 200 to 400c. for the retards out there thats 10 or 20 seconds. or 5 minites for a e car to charge with a 500+ mile range. word has it 2015/16 for commercial products.

[chris69fromhell]

how much costs 340 - 350 Hp electric motor? (I mean, if I want to replace fuel motor with this)

[Afrocanook]

At least one of those cars sounds like it have a gasoline engine under the hood.

[Pikansokamikaze]

love the sound: 2:00-2:05 lol

[markii63]

sounds almost like a real car *lol*

[leviterande]

how much do teh engine and batery weight?

[josephchar]

The track is too windy to show what it can really do. It accelerates real fast and can end up in the dirt.

[GegoXaren]

man I hate the sound of DC motor consolers....

when i get/build an EV I will get AC!

[saiboogu]

This car runs dual Siemens AC controller & motor sets.

[C20rules]

More power and probably 5 times less energy consumption and the sound is really nice

A good thing is that you can use all the available power - there is no transmission loss and the torque is almost linear to the rpm (not as the peaky gas engines).

[tribluered]

Lion Electric Vehicles. cost about $30K. sedans, suvs, and trucks. Max tested range 456 miles.

[wharbio]

This is LiPo.

[mohalive]

the care don't vibrant atol

great sound looks fun fun fun

[V82R]

el sonido del futuro

[kreator83adam]

THE ELECTRIC MOTOR SOUND IS AMAZING :D ...LIKE TURBOJET :D or cosmic power :D

[TommeyLeeReed]

If you need a controller, we make 120v to 5000v up to 5000 amps.

[BrianB170]

*sigh* now you made miss my old ITC class Datsun 510

[billdale1]

(Cont'd)... Just as the Sunraycer's victory in the World Solar Challenge eventually resulted in the GM Impact and EV-1 electric cars, I'm hoping this victory will result in massive racing fan acceptance of EVs as superior to gassers, which soon thereafter may result in the auto industry crumbling to public demand for EVs.

[billdale1]

It is so hard to break the habit of using the terminology of the gas-guzzlers: often someone says something about "stomping on the gas pedal" when describing the heavy-duty acceleration of EVs.  In this case, "focovere" says in his info about this vid: "Full traction, two engines, running in this test at half power..." it did not have two ENGINES, I assume, but two MOTORS.

[DerVampyrEngel]

This is a cool car but I was wondering how exspensive are the Lithium Polymer batteries?

[DeLorean4]

I've been asking myself that question quite often. The only clue I have is that the Lightning Car Company in England, maker of the 50,000£ Lightning GT electric super car uses Altair Nanosafe batteries which are basically Lithium batteries with a kick (The kind of kick that only requires a 10 minute recharge time).

[iamjames2]

um... were we watching the electric car, or were we *in* the electric car?

[dottySquirrel]

cool sound.

[WNanette]

You know if this was only a straightaway, the EV would have SMOKED the gas guzzler....

Maybe - who knows - we won't need those Arabic classes after all! :P 

Thank you!

[jgrobert57]

total kick arss

[BUDYCHRST]

THIS BITES DONKEY DINK