World’s Fastest Electric Car is a 1972 Datsun
Out on the dragstrip, one hardly expects the car kicking ass and taking names to be an old ‘72 Datsun 1200. Especially when the losers are driving BMWs, Corvettes and Ferraris. But those guys didn’t get pwned by any ol’ Datsun…this one’s electric!
It seems a bit like a paradox. Drag racing is flame-dipped muscle cars with bikini-clad hood ornaments spread over the hood. Electric cars, not so much.
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But John ‘Plasma Boy‘ Wayland’s White Zombie is a game changer.
It goes from 0 to 60 in 3 seconds! In fact, it can take a quarter-mile in 11.46 seconds reaching a top speed of 114 mph - that’s a world record. And it’s street-legal.
The White Zombie is powered by two motors; motors that are usually used to operate forklifts. It’s filled up with over 60 batteries that occupy both the trunk and the back seat. All of this gives the White Zombie about 300 hp, and the ability to beat every combustion engine it comes up against.
It takes about 20 minutes to fully charge the car, and it can get up to 40 miles on a full charge.
So how does a ‘72 Datsun knock down a souped up Corvette? Well, electric vehicles have an abundance of torque and they have it all from a standing stop. So they just explode off the starting line.
I think it’s safe to say that the future of racing is green.
Image: dragtimes.com
I want to see this Datsun drag race against the Eliica.
Eliica Electric Car Accelerates Faster Than a Porsche 911
http://gas2.org/2008/12/27/eliica-electric-car-accelerates-faster-than-a-porsche-911/
Clayton B Cornell. Do you know by chance who owns that site you are quoting from?
Everyone seems to forget about hydroelectric power. An to Charles, that toxic smoke is from the burning of the rubber from the tires. There is no way to stop that unless you don’t do a burnout.
Now all you need to do is get a bit better mileage, slap it on a production line and we’ll be back to the future in 1972.
Your Car is very cool. Rock on!
While the car is not polluting the air, the production of electricity probably is. Hopefully in the future our electrical production will be as clean as your Car!
Come-on, get with it. Are fossil fuels/coal the only way to generate electricity? What about water turbulance/solar/wind etc.
Not all electricity is produced from coal. Can you say, “Hydroelectric Dam”? If this is being raced in the west, chances are the electricity is coming from that source, so the carbon footprint is WAY lower than with coal. Think about it people.
@Clayton B. Cornell: You need to read up on the differences between PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles), HV (Hybird Electric Vehicles) and EV’s (Pure Electric Vehicles)
The article you pointed at was merely comparing CV’s (Conventional Gas Powered Vehicles), HV’s and PHEV’s
None of the data covered pure EV’s (PHEV90 is the closest) AND it assumed it’s based on the national grid, which a mix of generating sources but primarily from coal… pure production EV’s tend to be lighter than hybrids (mine’s between 5-600 pounds) therefore you can expect their electricity usage to be less than a PHEV90 once the weight of the gastank/motor is removed.
Sometimes ya’ gotta read past the headline/first paragraph and look at the data…
Most of the responses have covered the efficiency advantage on EV’s, but to add, a funny thing about EV’s — mine gets about 200 MPGe off of coal/nuke, but give me a green energy source and that skyrockets to between 5-600 MPGe. As soon as I can get renewable electricity, my 10-year-old EV gets immediately makes a big jump greener. That’s something you just can’t do with an ICE — they get dirtier with age as they get out of tune/wear out.
To be honest, it does disturb me greatly that miners are buried alive/mountaintopping/nuclear waste is generated to power my EV, but it is the lesser of two evils (blood-oil from the Middle-East). We (US) import 2/3rds of our oil, and I’ve cut my personal oil usage by over 2/3rds with a minimal increase in my electricity usage.
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Mike: “Actually, electric vehicles are greener than typical gas powered cars. In the future you should probably pause for a moment before you spout opinion as fact lest you appear foolish (again).”
How about you practice what you preach, d—.