RE: Blistering new 0-62mph record dips under a second

[Water Fairy]

I found that really quite anti-climatic tbh

Hats off to the engineers of course, it's very impressive.

[GTRene]

thats slingshot fast, looks almost like a fighterjet on a ship helped by such slingshot chain thing, so it does not need a long deck.

[ManyMotors]

Venisonpie said:

Red 5 said:

ManyMotors said:

A top fueler hits 60 in 0.4, 100 in 0.9 and 300 in less than 4.0. But you can't run it in your driveway.

How long will it take for electric drag cars to beat those numbers?

I imagine the first two, not long. The last one some time.

Top fueler has 11,000 horsepower. Each horsepower is worth 746 watts. So some kind of battery needs to put out 8,206 kilowatts over four seconds. I know they rate batteries in 'kilowatt hours' so the implied 'kilowatt seconds' means I'm now out of ciphering.

[Google [bot]]

normalbloke said:

Red 5 said:

ManyMotors said:

A top fueler hits 60 in 0.4, 100 in 0.9 and 300 in less than 4.0. But you can't run it in your driveway.

How long will it take for electric drag cars to beat those numbers?

What were the figures for Sammy Miller’s Vanishing Point? I seem to remember it still holds the record at the Pod.

0-60mph in 0.28secs, 0-100mph in 0.36secs

[Katzenjammer]

The Swiss German dialect of a couple of the team members is funny too.

[PHZero]

pycraft said:

0-60 in under a second; range 12 metres. It's the ultimate EV.

It's possible that a male driver may have managed to get a quicker time. Perhaps not though.

At the traffic light Grand Prix, they will look great, for an instant, before smashing themselves into a wall.

[E63eeeeee...]

PHZero said:

pycraft said:

0-60 in under a second; range 12 metres. It's the ultimate EV.

It's possible that a male driver may have managed to get a quicker time. Perhaps not though.

All you have to do is find one who weighs less than 40kg.

[PHZero]

E63eeeeee... said:

PHZero said:

pycraft said:

0-60 in under a second; range 12 metres. It's the ultimate EV.

It's possible that a male driver may have managed to get a quicker time. Perhaps not though.

All you have to do is find one who weighs less than 40kg.

Gandhi would have nailed it.

[HLS30]

When I see students doing things like this even while maintaining their regular course work I admit to being blown away by their spirit and determination. Regardless of any labels, these folks are having fun, and what are the goals of higher education, anyway, but this?

[Terminator X]

QuartzDad said:

Nish Gnackers said:

Does anyone know what the McMurtry Speirling can do 0-100 kph in ?

0-60 in 1.40s.
0-100mph in 2.63s.
0-145mph in 4.98s
1/4 mile in 7.97s

https://mcmurtry.com/0-60mph-and-%C2%BC-mile-recor...

Already yesterdays news.

TX.

[pycraft]

HLS30 said:

When I see students doing things like this even while maintaining their regular course work I admit to being blown away by their spirit and determination. Regardless of any labels, these folks are having fun, and what are the goals of higher education, anyway, but this?

Mechanical Engineering departments take Formula Student very seriously. I used to work in Mech Eng at the University of Surrey, and there were several group projects in the 2nd and 3rd years working on parallel - one on suspension, one on drivetrain and so on. There were usually 2-3 cars being worked on in parallel, since development took more than a year. They were also supervised by members of staff with automotive experience. Winning at FS is a big deal for a Uni and makes excellent promotional material (as it clearly has here), so departments put a lot of resource into it. There were also a lot of categories - acceleration was one but there were others (handling etc). The only thing they didn't actually do was head-to-head racing.

Surrey also has the benefit of being 4 miles from Woking, hence the workshop having a rolling 650S chassis for inspiration..

[tr3a]

Katzenjammer said:

The Swiss German dialect of a couple of the team members is funny too.

I speak and understand German quite well. Here, I was grateful for the subtitling.

[mat205125]

Red 5 said:

ManyMotors said:

A top fueler hits 60 in 0.4, 100 in 0.9 and 300 in less than 4.0. But you can't run it in your driveway.

How long will it take for electric drag cars to beat those numbers?

The 60 moh and 100 mph will go relatively soon, I would expect, however the 300 mark will take some time.

Past the direct drive launch advantage that EVs have, the challenge becomes the conversion of stored energy into kinetic energy at the tarmac ..... Nitro vs L-ion is still a war that I think belongs to the chemicals and combustion.

[Cryssys]

I struggled with the fact that the driver in full race gear only weighs 40kg.

I wonder what it would do with me on board?

[Harry_523]

Its also faster than all but 1 of the worlds fastest accelerating roller-coaster, pull 2G. I doubt that would ever get boring.


Its an EV on PH though so:
Wots the real range??
Must be so heavy!
Could never be a drivers car!
Batteries will catch fire after 2 runs!
etc....

[MarvinTPA]

Scalextric. That is all.

[Mogul]

Is it 4WD?

[Hatchoo]

They give the game away at 1:40, it's not electric powered at all, it's a pull back toy.

[Krikkit]

normalbloke said:

Red 5 said:

ManyMotors said:

A top fueler hits 60 in 0.4, 100 in 0.9 and 300 in less than 4.0. But you can't run it in your driveway.

How long will it take for electric drag cars to beat those numbers?

What were the figures for Sammy Miller’s Vanishing Point? I seem to remember it still holds the record at the Pod.

This website claims 0-60 in 0.28s, which equates to about 9.7g

http://www.slamminsammymiller.com/

[Krikkit]

HLS30 said:

When I see students doing things like this even while maintaining their regular course work I admit to being blown away by their spirit and determination. Regardless of any labels, these folks are having fun, and what are the goals of higher education, anyway, but this?

This is their coursework - they're students at various motorsport/engineering degrees. There's a whole racing series, "Formula Student" which runs every year for multiple universities.