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Chrispy_ wrote:http://www.fiaformulae.com/enYou're never going to see a multi-lap race with electric cars this decade.
Chrispy_ wrote:Perhaps one day they'll create a race-series where you can swap out entire battery packs like a traditional refuelling pitstop at the moment, but that goes against the current design philosophy of integrating the batteries into the floorplan to keep the centre of gravity as low-down as possible and welding armour over the part of the chassis holding batteries to prevent damage and subsequent thermal runaway.
JustAnEngineer wrote:Chrispy_ wrote:http://www.fiaformulae.com/enYou're never going to see a multi-lap race with electric cars this decade.
Saturday's race in Monaco was 51 laps. When the battery goes flat halfway through the race, they come to the pits and swap to a second car.
bhtooefr wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if you see someone doing an electric Garage 56 entry at Le Mans, probably in 2020 or so I'd guess. Maybe side-loading batteries?
bhtooefr wrote:The problem with the NIO EP9 record is that it's not even a street-legal supercar.
Somewhere I've seen someone pointing out that it beat the Pagani Zonda R, but if you're including street-illegal cars, that's not the car to beat. The car to beat would be the Porsche 956, which set a 6:11.13 on the exact same circuit configuration as NIO's lap, in 1983.
bhtooefr wrote:the crown jewel of endurance racing is the 24 Hours of Le Mans
Chrispy_ wrote:JustAnEngineer wrote:Chrispy_ wrote:http://www.fiaformulae.com/enYou're never going to see a multi-lap race with electric cars this decade.
Saturday's race in Monaco was 51 laps. When the battery goes flat halfway through the race, they come to the pits and swap to a second car.
Lol, second CAR?!!!
I snorted my coffee
Arclight wrote:Weird, an all electric car is now the fastest hypercar to have lapped the Nürburgring, at 6 minutes and 45 seconds beating their own previous time of 7:05 from late last year . Who would have thought, combustion cars are slow now.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/fu ... rburgring/