Some EV Racing History - APS electric races (before nedra.com ) http://www.aps.com/main/green/choice/EV/ev_8.html 1992 – APS in creates the APS Electric 500. Held each year at Phoenix International Raceway, the APS Electric 500 featured about 80 vehicles constructed by high school and university racing teams and driven by professional racecar drivers such as Tom Sneva and Billy Roe.
APS Electric 500 http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/21/us/electric-cars-race-silently-into-the-future.html Clare Bell @APS Electric 500 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Bell#Biography ... As part of the Women's Electric Racing Team, she competed in the Arizona Public Service utility company's APS Solar and Electric 500 and APS Electrics electric vehicle races, held in Phoenix, Arizona from 1993 to 1997 ... http://www.thefoat.com/fa/photos-album/album_id-503 EV Racing Posters, etc. 1993 APS Solar & Electric 500 ... > ... swap out a racing pack ... Take a look at an image Otmar (of Zilla controller fame) is kind enough to still keep on his site http://www.cafeelectric.com/images/Snowhite1.jpg Snowhite is one of the very first Electric Race cars. It had two packs, one on each side of identical size. All the pit crew had to do was push down on the side lid and it would pop open. The lifting tool would scoot under the pack and it was easy to take the whole pack out. Swapping a fresh pack in was just as easy and straight forward. A push down on the lid again and it locked in place. The EV racer would take off and the depleted pack would taken back to the pit for a dump charge (DC level-3 charging before there was such a thing ... ) Another Bob Schneeveis design that was way, way ahead of its time. Dual 8" AdvDC motors with two Curtis 1221x controllers, using one accelerator potbox ... http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0oGdVeCuitRfFYAiFNXNyoA?p=Bob+Schneeveis http://dor.stanford.edu/Marsh/Schneeveis.html {brucedp.150m.com} - On Mon, Feb 25, 2013, at 11:03 AM, EVDL Administrator wrote: > On 25 Feb 2013 at 13:02, Chris Tromley wrote: > > > There is no reason you couldn't swap out a racing pack in little more > > time than a typical fuel stop. > > They used to do that in the APS electrics races. I saw one in Cleveland > many years ago. It was a sight to behold. They used a total brute force > approach - a well trained crew, swarming over an EV, swapping batteries > in > perhaps a minute or two. - -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
