Can an Electric car beat a F3 race car?

Honestly!!! typical Myth Buster BS.

They used some trick video editing to try and cover up the fact they used a rolling start on a drag strip. (I've never heard of rolling start drag racing)

EVs are unbeatable off a standing start so to rig the race, the myth BSers specified a rolling start.

The only fair comparison is to run both rolling and standing starts, but then being fair isn't their gig.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Electric
• car
• F3
• race
• Wrightspeed
• X1

[mabdiuhrman]

what ? I don't know that car they used but the white zombie can beat any super or muscle car

[tsport100]

The race was rigged, it was a rolling start. The EV would've won if they did a standard drag strip type standing start.

[SideburnerSol]

And that was from a rolling start.  Wouldn't the electric car have competed even better from a standing start?

[frankodelic]

Electric cars kick ass... the superior low end torque offered by electrics leaves gas guzzlers in the dust!

[daswada9]

just type on youtube "White Zombie" and you will that electric cars are unbeatable

[toyotaprius79]

Even the Mythbusters fell to TV hoaxes.

[gatorsrule850]

yet again they make a car look fucking terrible, if they want to sell electric cars or hybrid's at-least make them look good for god sake, car companies are stupid when it comes to style for these cars

[MsAbbydo]

Kamie and Adam, you must re-do the race. Because a standard drag race starts from a stop positions, not a role start, re-do test.

[HEMIH3AD]

@mabdiuhrman hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahahaha "the white zombie can beat any super or muscle car"

are you insane ? the white zombie is still in the 10s at the 1/4 mile while there are 5 sec 1/4 mile pro mod muscle cars you dumbass

[DRTMaverick]

F3 cars are slow compared to F1 cars...

[SuperSkillage]

Amazing petrol heads just don't wanna see truth just blinded by exhaust fumes and defeaned by noise.

what's limiting power to weight with ev motors will come down to materials that can withstand the torque developed and these electric motors are basic now.

Liquid cooled would half there weight, halbach array perm magnets increase power directing flux inward,new hard as stel composites,it's just the beginning of ev, ev vs ice it's like comparing ipod to a hand cranked calculator

[klp4d]

Besides the F series racing have a unique system they use to generate their high performance, they use high compression principles a vehicle can have as many as six compression units on it depending on it's classification rating.

[klp4d]

@SideburnerSol no, it's clear it's settings being street legal runs differently then the F3 which settings are not street legal because of that it can run as it is designed to run, non street legal ..

[klp4d]

@DayB89 actually the WS X1 is set for legal street running, so is the white zombie though there are adjustments made to the white zombie at a race, an f3 isn't street legal it would never handle well on the street because of it's high monster settings it's the stop and go that is the nightmare .. lol .. it would hit 15 vehicles in front of it before it would stop ...