hacker-pschorr

https://blog.dupontregistry.com/pors...t-nurburgring/

Pmorritt

Watched for 2 minutes and had to shut it off. No glorious engine noise, no popping and cracklings exhausts. This might be the future but i hate it. Sounds like a Hoover vacuum.

dgrobs

That sound is just not natural. Yuck!!!

venom51

And yet I still have no interest at all...

hacker-pschorr

Yup, I tired really hard to watch a Formula-E support race a few days ago. A dozen silent Jaguar's chasing each other around the track. I only made it 4-5 laps.

In an ironic twist, the idea of racing being used to advance street cars this is the natural cycle. But at the same time people need to be interested enough to actually watch it.

How long before the FIA monkey's up the LeMans rules so bad an electric race car with quick change batteries is the lead prototype?

TXE36

My biggest gripe is none of these electric vehicles are "electric powered", they have an electric drive that is powered by energy stored in batteries that comes mainly from evil coal, evil natural gas, evil hydro or (gasp!) super evil nuclear power plants. There may be this teeny-tiny percent that is powered by holy sun or holy wind.

When I can buy a reasonably priced electric car with a 300 mile range that can be recharged in 5 minutes, then maybe I'll take an interest.

-Mike

certz

Impressive, but the RC car sound is annoying - I could not watch more than a couple of minutes.

hacker-pschorr

I suppose it depends where you are.
Almost 20% of the electricity in Germany comes from wind and I've never heard rational negativity towards hydro electricity. In fact some parts of the world they are expanding with new(er) technologies such as wave generated electricity.
Natural Gas is considered a clean energy (at least compared to coal) - it's a primary reason why the US is scoring rather well on the global doomsday list of dirtiest countries.
Germany also increased it's solar production by 68% last year over previous years.

Many factories have gone "green" to some extent. Some even claiming to be 100% renewable:
https://www.greencarcongress.com/201...vwsachsen.html
The technology is moving at a very rapid pace.

breljohn

That's the beauty of watching the video at the office... sound is turned off

Cory M

title is a bit misleading, they beat the electric car record but are still about 45 seconds off the overall record set by the 919

Veloce Raptor

Barf

TXE36

As an engineer, I feel hydro is nearly the perfect energy source where it is available, but there are those worried about fish or other nature concerns that oppose it.

None of these energy sources address the long recharge times and, while I'm on my high horse, even if the energy source and charge time issues are addressed, the electrical grid is completely unprepared for the load. Then there is the issue of the environmental damage caused by making and disposing of the batteries.

While a single car offers an individual freedom, it really is a system based upon an economical and reliable distributed energy system (today hydrocarbons rule), the car, and road infrastructure. Evaluation of electric vehicles is incomplete if does not address the energy distribution issues - both recharge times and quantity.

Now stick a Mr. Fusion on an electric drive train and I'll be interested.

-Mike

jmartpr

Only works on DeLoreans.....

Veloce Raptor

When you MUST provide taxpayer subsidies to get people to buy electric cars....they are a failed business model. When people buy them in droves with no subsidies, then you have a viable product. Let the market decide.

LuigiVampa

That's so cool that someone posted a picture of their remote control car. It almost looks real.