Electric Dragster SHOCKS Driver!
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- čas přidán 3. 01. 2024
- EVs are here and watch as this innovative, state of the art electric drag shocks the driver Steve Huff of Steve Huff Motorsports when he becomes the first EV drag racing to break the 200 mph mark after years of hard work! We take you to Tucson Dragway to watch the adversity the team has to overcome to get this electric dragster to perform the way they want it o. Enjoy electric racing history! #dragracing #electric #electricvehicles #electricvehicle
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I've been at louder libraries
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I can't read.
@@danstephens3344Neither can I.
I can see that being a benefit. Lots of places currently aren't allowed tracks thanks to noise limits, this should open it up for more places.
Karens are still gonna complain after they move in next to the track.
With that much high speed switching on the power system... I'm sure there is a good amount electromagnetic interference going on there. I'd love to see what it does to WiFi. So yeah, now they'll just complain about that too.
Would it be possible to make the time display a little more blurry? It's almost readable as it is, if it was slightly more blurry you could pass it off as a Christmas display in the fog.
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We will never know how fast that car ran. It could have been a 22 second run that they hyped up to make us all believe it was something else.
@@bashr52 The time itself is readable, it's 7.9s, also he mentioned final speed was 201.
@@joemama069 only 4.3 seconds and 140mph to go
@@OoogaBoog dude in video say, they did small adjust and went from 150 to 201, still a long road to go, but if this is actually true then maybe its not that far away
Watching the tires change shape on the burnout at 1:10 is unreal.
Wow, that's cool! Didn't notice it the first time
It’s the same with cars with real engines
They become oblate sphereoides - LoL!
Drag tires have a lower psi compaired to conventional tires. That explains why they rapidly expand during burnouts.
@@1wheeldrive751 and who was saying tha tis not? stop crying and go watch your beloved combustion videos, get out of here
When the car is so quiet, you can literally hear the track prep sticking to the tires. I swear, you could almost hear the sidewalls bind on the hook.
You can hear the lights humming. Boring.
@@cmo5459 - I can hear your mother humming... is that boring?
@@driverjamescopeland Only the way you describe it. But your mom tells me you were never clever, even as a child.
i worked the bleach box years ago, and that was the quietest bun out in history.
BOR-RING!
When the title says "shocks driver", I was thinking of an electric shock.
Me, too!
I was hopeing😂😂😂😂😂😂
I think that's called "click bait"
So was the author....😮
Yep.. click bait for sure.
That was weird. Imagine going to a drag where you can sit there and talk to other people. Heard louder noises on the golf channel.
And watching slow ass cars... he ran a 7 at 201... top fuel just set a record at 341......
@@kden1271 I recall when I used to attend Fremont Drag strip in CA and saw the 200 mph broken there for the 1st time back in the 60's.
The noise, smells and speed is why we go race. This had none of those, except tire smoke only. Boring AF.
yep and they still didn't wake the audience
@@kden1271 some might not know that Top fuel cars don't run the quarter mile. Just a 1000 feet. If a top fuel car had a full quarter mile it's top speed would be even higher.
i know the noise is the whole fun of it but theres something crazy about being able to hold a conversation next to a 200mph dragster run
You can hear a mouse fart its so quiet
You do realize there's tons of street driven cars capable of well over 200. There's a street driven Mustang with a 275 drag radial that has run a 6.26 1/4 mile. It has a factory cast block and factory heads. It had a stock crank but deflection was too much past 2900 hp it would eat bearings. 302 cubic inches making 10 hp per cubic inch. Early this year, a top fuel dragster hit 300 mph in a 1/8th mile. Electric is just a novelty that won't last, it's too slow to race and will never range with loads like diesel. Internal combustion will continue.
Not bad, just got another 135mph to go.
@@tailwatcher2500You people have been saying the same thing for years but last year the best selling model of car was an EV. ICE is going the way of the horse.
@drunkenhobo5039 and the top 3 best selling vehicles, Ford, Chevy, and Ram trucks, in that order. With the Ford alone selling nearly double that of the Model Y. You know what will never be replaced by EV? Trucks. It's basic physics. It currently takes over 400 kg of the market's best battery to match the stored energy of a single kilogram of diesel fuel. The biggest problem being a really inefficient engine from the factory made worse by an EPA that is extremely ignorant. There are diesel tuners that are able to make diesel engines have more power, gains in mileage, and produce less emissions, yet the EPA is fining them and threatening prison for removing the "emissions control devices." They can prove all of this with testing, and they don't have to fake the test like all of the auto manufacturers. An EV truck will never be as capable as a modified diesel. To understand how far EV actually is, I'll point the fastest EV dragster just hit 200 mph in a 1/4 mile, last year a top fuel dragster hit 300 mph in 1/8th mile.
It will never replace the heart pounding thump of nitro burning 11,000 horsepower! 💥💨
Just wait, soon it will surpass that pounding thump
I own two EV's and I totally agree!
Psssh, too bad rocket powered dragsters are banned. There's nothing like losing your hearing watching a rocket car from close up.
No. It will never replace the roar of internal combustion, but it will outrun it. People don't realize the power of electricity. Electricity will one day be the most feared weapon. It's what will defeat artificial intelligence.
Or a jet.
This Drag Race is brought to you by the National Hearing Institute.
At least deaf people can feel vibration they would even find this shit boring😂
Hilarious comment 🤣😂😂
I was only listening to this video; what actually happened??
Drag cars are only loud because they have to be to make that kind of power and speed. You could put most of this drag cars components into a normal car and run mid to high 8s, like the Plaid does.
@@Optimistprime.and still boring AF!
This thing is a beast. Steve has been working and reworking it for years. He used to be my motorcycle mechanic. Glad to see he’s got it in the track!
That's the kind of thing that will bankrupt drag strips. Nobody will pay to go see that. Not taking anything away from the builders but watching that would put me to sleep.
Let them bury their own sport 😂
Reminds me of my slot car racing days.
You beat me to the comment.😁
It kinda does doesn't it! Reminds me of back when.....when I imagined designing electric bikes back 50 years ago, but having no idea how they'd be powered. Then too thinking if slot cars were only life size and how fast they might go.....now we have the Tesla. Who'd thunk it?LOL
I wonder if the flapping sound at the launch and half way down the track were from the sidewalls wrinkling from the torque? Also, very cool to do it at an empty venue to be able to hear just how much noise it doesn't make.
I think that is exactly what the noise was.
It's the tires sticking to the track prep, maybe a little wrinkle but not after the 60 ft
My Nissan Leaf sounds the same when I floor it. Hahah
What about big daddy’s electric drag ? That things a monster to this . They had problems because it was so powerful it kept destroying itself but they still had a few runs
"Big" retired it. His was DC, Huff's was AC..... DC can burn things up pretty fast... like controllers and motors, which Don had repeated troubles with.
@@Romans--bo7br 👍ha ha ha it was funny as big D was selling it as going green when it was a ploy to keep racing when he was banned from racing top fuel
@@pauldean8638 Don Garlits is 92 years old.
@@N2YTA dude still rocks even at 92
It's just not the same without the crazy flames and INCREDIBLE roar . . .
….and the nitro exhaust fumes burning your eyes! 😁. Top Fuel all the way.
I’m happy for you guys. The world of electric racing just doesn’t do it for me. The sound and smell of a combustion engine will always be legendary.
It sounds much better running on fossil fuels🤔
Yeah! Nothing like burning a weeks worth of gas in 7 seconds! F*ck the world!
I bet nobody said this about horses!
I love both personally. God Bless
Why you call it "racing" then? Better call it "Hearing and smelling"...
The sound and the smell can never be replaced.
I wouldn’t associate the citrus scent of a ruptured lithium battery with fast things either
So weird for no sound
Watch.
@@binomesprite7829 this can be the women’s basketball of drag racing, all the same rules apply, yet it doesn’t provide the hype that fans look for
@@binomesprite7829 and when most people think of electric vehicles, they think “the reason the V8 is dead” which is why despite being cool, it will never gain traction, pun intended.
Years ago a friend and I used to go to a run down local drag strip in Riverhead NY to watch local guys race. One weekend Shirley Muldowney showed up to race. It was the first time I'd seen a car like that in person. When that thing lit off it was like entering a different dimension. It was so loud and so forceful, it was freakin amazing. Lol, one guy on the side of the track dropped to the ground. Maybe he thought the thing was gonna blow up and kill him.
I'll always remember that... If she showed up in this thing I wouldn't have cared one bit.
This is the automotive equivalent of a vegan burger. Kid yourself all you want - it’s not the same.
No noise no nitro methane think I will just go fishing
With your ELECTRIC trolling motor.......lol.
exactly
@@davidsod6800 A electric motor that has a entirely different purpose people watch for the entertainment not for the silence and boringness a lot of people go just to experience hearing a engine like that up close and feeling it you make the sport quiet and boring a lot of people will leave regardless of how its powered.
@@davidsod6800 An electric motor to hit the river?... For what exactly lol
@@keremysmith6866 so you are saying that the only interesting thing in a drag racing is the noise?
shocking that it’s so quiet, you can hear the rear slicks sticking to the track, never heard that before!
I walked our tar streets in the summertime in the south as a child, thats what our bare feet sounded sticking to the street as we walked lol! For real though!🤠👍
I knew they were always silent but I never put it into perspective just how it goes from zero to everything lol. I've had RCs cars that went 70-80mph but they always had a fan lol
I saw the Courage of Australia rocket car at the old Surfers Paradise drag way in 1972 fluff the start only to emerge from a opaque cloud seconds later. I was up in the tower at the finishing line and saw a blur as the front of the car passed below me while the rear still seemed to stuck back in the cloud. 300 mph and 6 seconds. I think it was powered by the same engine they used to land Apollo 11 on the moon. Not quite the same but Wow. When pushing the limits it's all about the Wow and the Fear factor.
Both deafening nitro burners and relativistic electric darts work for me as long as they keep pushing the limits.
The guy’s yell at the end was the loudest sound all night.
Shit, it ain’t no fun without the noise and smell of nitro burning your eyes.
Exactly. The absolute best part of seeing an NHRA race is FEELING the cars literally shake you to your core. There is nothing else on earth like it. I wouldn't walk across the street to see this for free.
@@twalker294
Amen bro.
@@twalker294 same. Electric motors are good at devices, sedans, city cars. Not in racing or sportscars and shit
Now you can build a electric drag strip next to a hospital
Or a library
DRAG RACE! (Yeah!!!)
for handling the accidents directly ?
@@chargehanger I never considered what a safety advantage that would be. Thanks
@@kenneymitchell1186 Darwin disagrees with the concept of "Safety"
Next up, full self driving.
Then, we can get ChatGPT to write software to watch the race, so we don't even have to.
good one, these replies are killin' me
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better yet simulate everything so you never have to go and have fun.
I think it’s just called an automatic on the pedal
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Hearing those tires tacking was cool.
that's really impressive, i guess you don't need a spoiler with a metric ton of batteries.
these cars will probably push the concept of "go as fast as possible in a straight line". but i don't think people go to the drag strip just to have it sound like an R/C car taking off.
the fun is in the loud noises and flames out of the exhausts.
The smell of rubber mixed with high octane is intoxicating
But on the flip side, you don't need to have drag strips that have been there for decades get taken out by housing development that complain about noise either.
@@wihamaki but no one will watch it so strips will still close.
@@origaminefretami3480 The only tracks, either road, dirt, or strip that I know that still exist are still in a rural area and haven't been closed due to being encroached by housing. Who cares who was there first. But strips are going to close because right-to-repair anything from your watch to tractor are going to raise a generation where practically nobody is a gear-head anymore.
Nice performance, but the visceral experience offered by ICE vehicles, especially in the performance realm, is unmatchable. This is like watching a Ryobi drill.
It's like a library.
If the dubblyew E eff and See See Pee get their way - Nobody alive will have any memory of fuel dragsters, by 2030
They'll lobotomize us all
It's like taking candy from a baby. Just as gas and diesel overtook steam, so electric can overtake gas. Who cares about heart pounding pistons? Just a few. Noisy engines are already a thing of the past, since balancing shafts and excellent exhaust systems quieted them down. People mostly don't want noisy cars.
@@microdesigns2000 "Who cares about heart pounding pistons? "
The people paying for the race.
You know we still have horse races, don't you?
If, by 'performance', you mean noise, sure. If you mean speed and handling, obviously EVs are going to win without trying.
I don't think it has to be gas vs electric ...it can be both but create a separate class for electrics.
I got my first ev a few years ago. It had one of the lowest hp ratings. Yet it was very peppy - instant acceleration - no lag - it felt as quick as higher rated gas cars....so much fun to drive.
With all the problems,why would you buy one
They are not for everyone but it worked well for me. I drove it local, no trips, so the problems with charging stations was not an issue for me. I did all my charging at home. I saved about $100 per month fuel cost (electricity is cheaper for me than gasoline). I had the car 4 years with no oil changes (saved hundreds) and had no repair bills (no tune ups etc). I was able to trade it in and had a very low depreciation cost. I bought the car at just the right time and got a great deal (don't see deals like that anymore.) I would have kept it but the range was getting low because I bought it used and had it 4 years. The cost to replace the battery had more than doubled in those 4 years so I did not do it.@@johnnyporter7655
Hp is not acceleration HP iis how high the endgame is in velocity, EV have torq
What problems? @@johnnyporter7655
@lw216316.... Enjoy it!.....EV's Won't be around much longer. PS; It should be.. "gas vs electric" - vs NITRO!!
My dad was in the drag racing business and I spent my youth at more racetracks than I can remember. Nothing sounds better than a nitro burning engine. I can still hear it to this day!
It’s like watching golf. I don’t think I could get through a day of it even if they are fast.
Wanna know what’s more boring than golf on TV? Golf on the radio 🤣🤣🤣
Or Brandon babbling 😂
You could make brum brum noises and sniff a gas rag.
Hey, sometimes people get injured watching golf!
This vehicle didn’t shock the driver or any of the viewers for that matter
Great job. Got 138 mph to go. .....
God bless Brittney and her awesome Dad !
It’s just so weird how quiet the video is, it’s like moving stuff around in a parking lot late at night. Cool
This is awesome. I could get in to this. Wonder if they use capacitors for a high energy dump timed to go off at specific intervals according to track distance.
Microwave vs BBQ, microwaves might cook quicker but it doesn't taste the same.
Amen, Plus, it is Never as Healthy food as on the old fire !!! ! !!!
@@kopronkoactually bbq is unhealthy because of all the black smoke in your steak. of course thats why it tastes better but it s unhealthier.
Absolutely beautiful analogy my friend!
Stolen, but still amazing.
Good analogy
How could that ever be as exciting as a 100decible, 6 foot high , SHOOTING FIRE DRAGON rolling down the track??
You don't go deaf, breath in cancer fumes(pit mechanics/driver need to wear gas masks when working on the car) and you don't need National Security clearance to purchase/handle/use the fuel...
@@kylereese4822You must be fun at party's
I don't know. That driver sounded like he had a really great time.
Listen Gary, you're not into drag racing so... maybe go glue your hand to a road somewhere. Sorry Gary, that was meant for the vegan who commented about hating America Kyle Reese or something...
Biden 2024 right buddy
I haven't seen someone that excited about going 200 MPH since Big Daddy Don Garlits did it in the mid 60s.
Good job guys regarding the electric car. Well done and keep it up.
It so cool being able to hear the flapping of the drag tires. Really drives home just how low PSI is run in a drag tire
Next stop , electric Nascar.... can't wait!
There's a reason nobody delivered moonshine in an EV.
It does have a little appeal left don't it ,that should do it the rest of the way in
@@derekheim8172because they didn't exist yet?
@@scrambledmandible Sure they did, electric cars go back to the 19th century. An EV held the speed record for cars until 1900. Combustion vehicles didn't sail by them until the electric starter was invented.
Another advantage to a combustion vehicle hauling moonshine is that it can be used as fuel if need be!
Got there in the end, and that's nice.
Please I cannot read the performance on the display. Could you share it please?
Not the same without the roar of an engine.
WHAT... I cant hear you tinnitus.
Earplugs.
Its like they took the soul out of the car and stomped on it.
You could not have explained it any better than this comment 🤣🤣
@@ftmt9568 😊
Brilliant reply👍👍
lol, perfect analogy
Just like their doing to US!
I love the sounds you can hear.
That’s was awesome. Well done boys.
That's pretty awesome. Certainly the future of drag racing, but I just don't get excited without the roar of an engine and the smell that comes with it. The ground vibrating and the thunderous roar. It's going to do wonders for zoning though.
But use 10,000 KWH per run every drag strip will need a nuclear reactor
THEN DRAG RACING HAS NO FUTURE , I WOULD NOT SPEND MONEY TO WATCH AN ELECRIC DRILL LOL
There is only one company in the world that can make multiphasic motors and solid-state calcium batteries, so it will be the end of competition ! That is why the GM Delphi rail only ran for exhibition!
The future of drag racing? God, I sure hope that isn't the case. Drag racing will lose at least one fan for certain.
@@harrypalmer291 call it the women’s basketball of drag racing
Well, that was…. sedate.
I'm upset. Too much noise and smoke. Can't we just run a simulation of this and watch it in VR?
@@KC9UDX 100% someone would still comment 'this is the future of racing, so exciting and impressive'
@@origaminefretami3480definitely. And those people never witnessed a Nitro Dragster in person
Is that with TCS or did it just perfectly hook up?
You could hear the driver passing flatulence! 😂 My Docter said this kind of unplanned excitement could give me a widomaker ha
My question do they have the equipment to put out a electric fire
Impossible. The EV freaks won't tell you that.
Excellent point. 🔥
A container filled with water isn't very complicyted to put somewhere.
🐂💩🧌
@@diymicha2water conducts electricity. Just thought you’d like to know.
Wow now drag races will be like going to a silent movie.
Maybe they'll pipe an old player piano through the PA.
I was hoping to see the time and some more stats like reaction time etc. But it's a cool machine that hopefully we'll see more of.
Welcome to the new world. Hard for the old school aficionados and I love the fuelers as much as anybody but the times are a-changing.
That machine is insane. Dunno what kind of Gs the driver was pulling but...wow!
Dang i feel asleep half way through the video. How did it end guy's? I don't want to re rewatch it.
When the current ICE rails are running 3+ seconds at 350mph, this isn’t impressive.
Yep , its street car fast lol .
4.4 seconds but ok
With electricity, it's just a matter of matching current and voltage.
Keep in mind that in this video, we're not looking at the latest and greatest battery and motor tech here. This is one hobbyist's dream.
If corporate and sponsorship were behind this (like any ICE race today), it would progress much faster.
@@pavanbiliyarwhy would they sponsor something that nobody is going to watch
It's true that the sound dragsters make, make up a large percentage of the excitement a Drag race has to offer. I couldn't EVEN sit through 3 hours of that....😂
Still a decent sound as it warms up the tires and take off.....reminds me of rc cars! With the faster speeds and g forces hopefully a new breed of drivers will come out. And some funky new electric motor sounds to add more sound down the track. Its almost like the quiet anticipation of olympic shotput, goal kicks, you name it, relate the sport now to other sports. 😊 jm
Thats like trying to say 1% skim milk is delicious😂
I used to work for ASRA and ASCCA in Arizona. Assuming this is the same organization since it's in Tucson. This was back in the 90's and we had an electric circuit that was started by three universities. I flagged corners back then and it was the most boring job ever when the electric cars were on track. We had a running joke between the flaggers crew where we would press the talk button down on our comms every time the cars would pass your corner, just so the rest of the crew working the field could hear the cars driving. It got so silent at firebird that you could fall asleep during these races so we did everything we could to keep us entertained. Again this was the 90's so the cars didn't have the speed that they do today and if it wasn't for us hitting comms and laughing the entire time, we would have gone insane with boredom 😂😅
Looks like it says 7.259 at 201.87 MPH. Pretty decent run. I'd love to see this drag race Mullet or Ruby from Cleetus McFarlands stable if you ever get to Florida.
I'd love to see this go against Mullet! Did you see clay millicans top fuel make ruby shit her pants 😂 now THATS a real dragster
How long between charges?
Two burnouts and a quarter mile.
Same as a gas dragster.
So this is why I haven't been hearing the roar from the fairgrounds like I used to, I thought it had been a little too quiet lately! Lmao
Nice job. Would have been helpful to know if 1320 or 1000.
1/4
Damn most of the fun I found going to the drag races was the sound of the cars and the smell and vibrational fills of the motors. I don't believe I would even bother to waste time seeing an electric dragster
You know, cameras with real clicking shutters have largely been replaced by cell phone cameras with artificial clicking noises. I imagine cars will be the same. Fake engine noise to calm the user with similarity. It's hard to accept change, so some fakery can help the human cope with change.
I find myself wondering to what degree a capacitor array is employed here?
Two pints of full cream milk please , o it was that quiet I thought it was a milk float 😆
Just skip this technology and start working on Star Trek transporter technology to get from one end of the track to another.
What? This EV drsgster went so flow I almost got bored and fell asleep . 200 mph in ghe quarter is very slow by 1960's standards, much less today. EVs eill NEVER be able to compete with Nitromethane top fuel ICE
You need a LOUD STEREO SOUNDING LIKE A,10, 000 HP engine....lol
If I ran a track that's exactly what I'd do on EV night. Crank the metal constantly and play engine noises when they launch.
Pretty interesting stuff... and sorta scary when you consider grandma may have access to a vehicle capable of going 0-200mph in like maybe 10-12 seconds as prices come down in EV motors and batteries. Production Plaid's are already doing like 10 second quarter miles in the 150~ range, and similar power is going for like 50-60k with other brands...
First electric car late 1800s to this. Huge achievement. Yes! But watching your buddy jump out of his skin. Experiencing his first throttle wack. Priceless!
Looks like a top end run, more then off the line. Impressive for how early in to the power development process EV drive trains are. Getting in to the 6's will be hard work, will be fun to watch it happen.
I’ve been doing foundational research on this. Specifically having a road legal passenger vehicle capable of 2000Hp at the wheels in a dyno setting. Off the shelf motors aren’t going to get near it. 1500 Kw is 1000 volts at 1500 amps. I know a certain motorcycle team that runs a 1000 volt architecture for about 10 minutes. The risks are up there with the moon shot. The cooling system alone needs a secondary loop cooled by either dry ice or liquid nitrogen. That’s just for a 10 second run using 18Mj or 5kwh. At least 10% of that will go as heat. It takes 8Mj to get 2000 kg to 320Kmh in a vacuum.
Short of a rail gun or some other external power source today this (2000Hp ATW for 10 seconds under 2000Kg in a mobile application ) is near impossible
@@theairstig9164 Aside: Why do people think Moon Shot's are risky? So much testing an developing has been done that make Rockets safer to ride in then Cars on a freeway.
It's just when things do go wrong, the whole world sees it, and then knee-jerks a reaction faster then John Force at the Tree.
@@theairstig9164 "Off the Shelf motors",... This, I would expect. Tesla's Model S and Model 3 hardware was engineered to move the Wingflaps on Starship (S) and gimbal the Raptor rocket engines (3), with the Powerwall hardware being what is strapped in to the ship to power them. This is why their drivelines are far more over-engineered compared to nearly every other EV install, but even those can only handle the full power acceleration loads for short periods of times before they have to be backed off and allowed to cool. Comparitively, the gearbox in the Bugatti Veyron is limited by heat soak to about 22 minutes of operation at full throttle, Bugatti was happy with that, as at full throttle the car's tank is empty in 19 minutes, giving it time to cool off. The 1000hp Veyron W16, actually makes closer to 2500hp, the rest is used up driving the cooling system and alternator, power steering, friction, pumping and thermal losses.
We accept these limits to performance normally, and then there are guys like in this video that decide not to, and go chasing records.
I have no doubt that None of this car uses off the shelf parts, and like the motorbike team you mentioned, will be all custom engineered parts, and to see the sort of power needed to move the mass hard enough to stay with the fueler, is going to take motors with solid busbars instead of windings, and the liquid Nitrogen you mentioned, with that cooling flowing through the insides of both the stator and rotor, and will need batteries made as low mass as possible. If they can do it under 2000kg, it will drive forward the technology in ways we can't begin to imagine.
We are not early. Been electric cars for over a hundred years. There is a reason the model S Tesla is 25% battery weight.
I'm happy to say, I was there in the good ole days!
Wow! Good job on the power transfer
1/8 mile? 1000 feet? 1/4 mile? A plethora of information in this video. Smh
Since they only seem to be concerned with the speed at the big end, not the ET I would assume it's 1/4 mile.
As exciting as watching the grass grow.
Nah , not that exciting :) .
Just watched a video of a 4 cylinder turbo dragster do 209, only thing that would sell me on electric dragsters is if I lived close to the strip.😅
That was so surreal - just silence and a bit of electric motor whine! Fantasic effort on 201 and a 7.9 - absolutely astounding.
I like top fuel... Call be biased.
How do you guys control the speed on the electric motors another question is How much is left on the table on the Tesla plad Kyle from boosted boys tried to break a record on the car by making it lighter but was wondering if they could have had some connection to the speed or voltage to the motors would they had a better outcome?
outstanding !
can't wait to see an all wheel drive version... 5000kw per wheel would be a good start.
No noise, no excitememt, no raw fuel, no rumbling ground pounders.
I watched a Delphi rail run for exhibition only in 2008 it was impressive. They swapped the battery for every run.
I literally heard the tree countdown, wow!
Oh that was such a thrill.
Kind of like watching paint dry!
Or women's bowling, or women's golf...Nevermind, save me a seat. I'll watch paint dry with ya
Yep, fast, OK. Boring as batshit, yep.
Even longer....watching grass grow!
I bet the driver didn't feel like that people watch base ball and that is like watching the grass grow so it can be done.
i does dry really fast tho XD
Now you can race at 2 in the morning and not have people bitch about the noise
I want to feel the ground shake and hear the rumble of the engine
This is really cool!
If it ever comes to this,,,, I'll never go to another drag race. Part of the experience is hearing and feeling the roar of the Nitro engines
I'll make sure to tell them.
Use your headphones with full volume while watching electric racing. CZcams is full of Nitro dragster noise 🤣
@@bobsnabby2298 You know, that is true, but I won't be able to feel the thunder in my skin from these electric want to bes.
I watch Grandma clean er dentures. i have to say that was more exciting they flipped out of her hands, and she caught them in mid-air 😮
Lol 😂
i mean that does sound exciting XD
That had me doubled over. Yew bewdy!
Totally agree, I was at the first TT Zero on the IOM an that was just as exciting (NOT) no sound, no smell an half off them didn’t have enough juice to do one lap.
🥱🥱🥱🥱
Yeah, i heard him screaming during the "burnout" 😉😂
Now 2 days to recharge the batteries.
It takes a few minutes actually
I wonder how much all of those batteries weigh....and how long does it take to recharge between runs??!! Kinda fun though....it sounds sort of like my battery drill.
Probably shorter than the engine rebuild they normally need to do every run
@@NootNooot: Really? It would seem to take quite a while with all of the amps that the machine is pulling, but, who knows, maybe they have spare batteries that are charged and ready to swap out!
I think they are more capacitor type batteries so the charge time is very very short then.
I bet you can recharge those batteries faster than you can rebuild an engine.
@top fuel crews do it in less than an hour, they go faster too mikem.8487
So strange to not hear a whole lot of noise. Awesome!
This vehicle is very specific in time about the technology it uses
Electric seams like it would be a great place for kids to enter the sport (of course sized down for safety and cost) seeing they could get a sense of the end speed and a little of a launch. I agree with most the comments. We don't go to the races for our eye's, we go to have our soles shaken. Thanks Jack !
NHRA does have an entry level class for kids, It's called junior dragster. And the best part is they have a gas burning engine too. Screw this electric nonsense !!!
Top fuel Hemi rails have been doing well over 300 mph for years now. All the technology still is behind.
300 in 2.9 seconds now. 1/8th record
EV race car tech is still in its infancy. Give them time.
Remind me, how long did it take a drag car to hit 200 mph in a quarter mile?
@utha2665 Not long when they started using Chrysler Hemi's. How long did it take them to make an EV? And how much did it cost compared? And how toxic and dangerous are the batteries?
@@utha2665It took over 100 years for EVs to be able to do 200 mph in the quarter mile. So Don't hold your breath. It took the Hemi V 8 on race gas, (No Nitto Methane) in less than 10 years of work. EV will NEVER be as quick or fast as today"s Nitromethane top fuel dragsters, even in your Great, great kids lifetimes. 13,000 hp Top fuel ICE by ghe laws of physics has a much, much higher power to wright ratio than any EV vould ever have. Ewuivalent to 13 Tesla Plaids, with 25% the weight one one Tesla Plaid. The physics isn't possible. Aldo Jet aircraft will ALWAYS be much faster than ANY E plane EVER could be