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Electric Car Drag Racing

By Queuebot in Car & Vehicle, Video Clips on Jan 27, 2009 at 5:02 pm


Here's a great video from Oregon Public Broadcasting: The White Zombie, a 1972 Datsun that has been converted to run on nothing but electricity.

Not satisfied with an ordinary electric car, John "Plasma Boy" Wayland kept improving it until it had the speed and power to compete head-to-head with traditional drag racing vehicles.

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  1. Alex
    Jan 27th, 2009 at 5:06 pm

    Dang! That is amazing!

  2. Gauldar
    Jan 27th, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    I've known for a while that the right off the bat acceleration of electric cars beats any internal combustion engine out there.

  3. Sofar
    Jan 27th, 2009 at 6:21 pm

    Peak torque at zero RPM.

  4. manik
    Jan 27th, 2009 at 7:02 pm

    I often wondered why there weren't more of these guys out there. The torque of electric motors is no secret. It's guys like this that are going to push the industry just like gaming pushed the computer industry.

  5. vlad
    Jan 27th, 2009 at 7:48 pm

    Actually one of the founders of Tesla motors started out the same.

  6. floatingk
    Jan 27th, 2009 at 9:58 pm

    you know that power plant that made the electricity probably put out a fair amount of pollution. Im just playing the devils advocate after reading about googles database computers' power consumption is off the charts...

  7. Sofar
    Jan 28th, 2009 at 12:10 am

    @Floatingk: Drag racing is not about energy efficiency.

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