Comments on: Electric Car Drag Racing

By: Sofar

Sofar — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 05:10:04 +0000

@Floatingk: Drag racing is not about energy efficiency.

By: floatingk

floatingk — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:58:45 +0000

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…

By: vlad

vlad — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:48:11 +0000

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

By: manik

manik — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:02:28 +0000

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.

By: Sofar

Sofar — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:21:57 +0000

Peak torque at zero RPM.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:29:03 +0000

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

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:06:00 +0000

Dang! That is amazing!