Formula E car on track - looks good, sounds bloody awful
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interloper said:
If this is the future, I will happily stay in the past. Sounds daft but I find sound is incredibly important when it comes to motor sport, without it it just ends up a bit like normal sport and I cant be bothered with that!
just put some large speakers where the exhaust would be, and the sound track from any engine you want. maybe a BDA? that might work...Crikey that was dull to watch. Didn't help it was a boring marketing video rather than an actual test.
It's like that Drayson Racing green car - I loved it and supported it when it was a petrol car and in the ALMS.. much less interested now. Great tech, just leave it on the road, not on the track.
Let's all get electric cars and save what's left of the petrol for race cars. Everyone's a winner?
It's like that Drayson Racing green car - I loved it and supported it when it was a petrol car and in the ALMS.. much less interested now. Great tech, just leave it on the road, not on the track.
Let's all get electric cars and save what's left of the petrol for race cars. Everyone's a winner?
interloper said:
Jerry Can said:
just put some large speakers where the exhaust would be, and the sound track from any engine you want. maybe a BDA? that might work...
And hear somebody else's sound? That would be just as wrong IMO. As part of my final uni project I did a lot of research into alternative fuels for race cars. I can't find a link to the vid of this car ATM but this from BMW is where I think we should be looking.
http://www.gizmag.com/go/3247/
It's a v12 running on hydrogen. If someone can find a way to store a reasonable amount of hydrogen in a vehicle (which is being done and there is light at the end of th tunnel for that challenge) and for the efficiency of a combustion engine running on hydrogen to be improved, it's a real option, and it sounds mega.
http://www.gizmag.com/go/3247/
It's a v12 running on hydrogen. If someone can find a way to store a reasonable amount of hydrogen in a vehicle (which is being done and there is light at the end of th tunnel for that challenge) and for the efficiency of a combustion engine running on hydrogen to be improved, it's a real option, and it sounds mega.
PhillipM said:
Max_Torque said:
They need to jack up the inverter output frequency and overmodulate the motor PWM with some audio tones, make it sound like a Tron car or something!
And on a more serious note, take all that backlash and shunt out of the drive system...Max_Torque said:
Eh? It's a lightweight formula car with a dog gearbox! If they took out the "backlash" it would be very difficult to change gear! ;-)
There's a massive amount of shunt when it changes down though, way more than just the dogs 
The damned car skips from the oscillation!
Edited by PhillipM on Saturday 23 November 01:02
I have no real problem in trying to use the sizzle of racing to promote electric cars. However to me the key issue of electric cars is the sausage of limited range and so demonstrating that you need two vehicles to complete the race distance seems completely daft. Having 3 sprint races would have made much more sense and would have prolonged the "day out" for spectators.
I can't see it lasting more than 3 seasons, once the novelty has passed. There currently seems to be a huge credibility gap between Renault's Twizy and this.
I can't see it lasting more than 3 seasons, once the novelty has passed. There currently seems to be a huge credibility gap between Renault's Twizy and this.
PhillipM said:
Max_Torque said:
Eh? It's a lightweight formula car with a dog gearbox! If they took out the "backlash" it would be very difficult to change gear! ;-)
There's a massive amount of shunt when it changes down though, way more than just the dogs The damned car skips from the oscillation!
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