On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 4:26 AM, brucedp5 via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote:
> A Texas-based enthusiast named Mitch Medford has teamed up with well-known > electric drag racer John Wayland to build an all-electric 1968 Ford Mustang > that’s capable of beating a top-spec Tesla Model S P85D on a drag strip. > I continue to be baffled by the drag guys' fascination with comparing a highly - and specifically - modified race car to a stock-and-standard high performance OEM car. Sure, the racer can go to the store just like the OEM, but that is not what it was built for. They completely ignore the value of all the time it took to get the race car to the point where it could beat the OEM. The Zombie is probably a 1/4 million dollar car if you paid everyone for their time. They also ignore the fact that if Tesla knew they were going to go drag racing and could prepare for it, they could simply swap controllers and do a few other minor tweaks and be in the hunt. What would a Tesla do with the amps coming from those twin Zillas? This whole exercise seems rather childish. I beat Corvettes and Ferraris on the street all the time in my wife's Honda Accord. Of course the results might be different if those guys knew they were racing. Chris -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20150624/1137bfad/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
