Hi guys, I work with renewable technologies and was thinking that an all electric car would be ideal for competition drifting: Instantaneous torque and you don't need silly ranges as you are only running in pairs for a short time. Apart from the obvious Clarkson bigots and BDC regulation issues, do you think it would be a good format? Miike
extremely boring for a spectator. Its like watching a Tesla drive, there is no noise. A great thing about watching drifting is the noises the cars make
It's a different kind of noise, but I understand your point. Electric cars for the road are boring, however stripped out BEVs have a spaceship sound that appeals to me.
Having driven the ecotricity Nemesis, fuck yeah an electric car, well, electric cars, will dominate drifting once someone builds a good enough one. Look at Pikes Peak already, the electric cars are kicking ass. The current fast ones are programmed to be tractable and even then the torque and response is mega, if programmed a bit more aggressive they'd be just smoke machines. Current tech will mean a shitload of money n effort though. But electronics improve n reduce in price fast. Yeah they don't make loads of exhaust noise, but that's no big deal, half the drift cars sound shit anyhow, and I wanna see good drifting not loud exhausts. Shame most don't see that, so you see loud exhausts and average drifting.
More than that, there would never be any noise complaints again, thats got to be a good thing. Nissan are running this in the LM24 hours this year: They reckon it will do 11 laps as any normal car but will do every 12th lap solely on electric power harvested from the previous laps. They also reckon it will do the electric only lap in under 4m, which is crazy fast.
Pedants accepted here. It's how most arguments are started on DW My point was that fuel cell cars can last the day. But you are 100% correct, fuel cells are electric, it is just a battery that you can constantly pump fuel into for longer output. Fuel cells don't have the power density to make decent drift cars yet, and the constant high load would cause serious degradation issues due to water flux and other key issues. Unless hybridised with supercaps or li-pos. I am exploring getting some funding for our formula students to build an electric car. Just gut an E36 and put loads of Li-Pos and a motor in. Connect to a welder, and hey presto, a skidder.
You're forgetting (or are unaware) that low frequency sound (engine noise) travels further, and is harder to quell. But high frequency sounds (tyre squeal) diminishes easier, and travels less far.
Yeah, electric cars are wank. My 8 years in academia is worthless, fuck it. I'm glad you informed me so eloquently. Could of got into a whole heap of trouble following my current path.
