You Think Your Car Is Fast???

[A383Wing]

I doubt it....don't challenge this guy....you will loose

http://www.opb.org/programs/ofg/videos/view/56-Electric-Drag-Racing

[1969chargerrtse]

Amazing.  I've been saying for quite some time when electric cars go main stream old Muscle cars are gonna look old.  And it's a coming, SOON!  like next year.
I watched the whole thing.  Thanks for posting.

[skip68]

   Now that was cool.     Thank's for posting that A383Wing.   

[472 R/T SE]

Thanks for the heads up.  It's bad enough being beat by a 4 door Charger due to my shortshifting but no amount of being on top of my game will be faster than that little ride.

I haven't seen the Zombie at the track yet but would be anxious to hear his take on coal fired power plants & damned up rivers, lakes against his "gasoline is bad" for the environment thinking.  Also interested how he disposes of his batteries after each swap. 

[tan top]

 ... damn thats quick

[BB1]

Amazing.  I've been saying for quite some time when electric cars go main stream old Muscle cars are gonna look old.  And it's a coming, SOON!  like next year.
I watched the whole thing.  Thanks for posting.

Oh yeah, I want a 72 Datsun to drive around with my head up my ass thinking I want clean air.

Share the technology; I bet that thing cost more than the Corvette did when it was new.

I'm sure it was probably built with tax payer money, at a University and he is just the spokesman.

[TruckDriver]

I haven't seen the Zombie at the track yet but would be anxious to hear his take on coal fired power plants & damned up rivers, lakes against his "gasoline is bad" for the environment thinking.  Also interested how he disposes of his batteries after each swap. 

The one thing they fail to mention when it comes to all battery powered cars is the batteries. Especially the lead batteries. I thought the story was neat, but I will never buy a electric car ever until they can invent one that you can drive for a week or so at a time with plugging the damn thing in every 2 or 4 hours

Because of that reason, I realistically don't ever seeing electric cars being the total answer. Maybe only for city commute cars, but that's it.

[1969chargerrtse]

Thanks for the heads up.  It's bad enough being beat by a 4 door Charger due to my shortshifting but no amount of being on top of my game will be faster than that little ride.

I haven't seen the Zombie at the track yet but would be anxious to hear his take on coal fired power plants & damned up rivers, lakes against his "gasoline is bad" for the environment thinking.  Also interested how he disposes of his batteries after each swap. 

Maybe so for the first few years the power comes from power plants.  What are you going to say when Hydrogen is onboard, which is as clean as spring water for discharge.  The Hydrogen cell will make the electricity that will make the electric car go by our Chargers like in the video.  Hydrogen powered cars are all over the US, and 2 towns over from me they are building the first staiton for their custom built town hydrogen cars as we speak, or type.

[Old Moparz]

I doubt it....don't challenge this guy....you will loose

http://www.opb.org/programs/ofg/videos/view/56-Electric-Drag-Racing

That was great, & I liked the lithium swap to lose several hundred pounds & gain almost 1/2 a second.

[1969chargerrtse]

I doubt it....don't challenge this guy....you will loose

http://www.opb.org/programs/ofg/videos/view/56-Electric-Drag-Racing

That was great, & I liked the lithium swap to lose several hundred pounds & gain almost 1/2 a second.

Those are from A123 which is out of MA, and most likely that company suppling batteries for the Chebby Volt next year.

[BB1]

Don't think all the answers come from Hydrogen.
Powers isn't cheap, it might be years before the cost comes down to the consumer world. In other words, the market will tell whether they will be successfully, but it still has to compete with gas and other technologies.

Solar powered cars are as free as the sun, they will come on strong as soon as the solar panels are affordable.
My cousin's home runs completely on the sun. I hope by the time I retire, I can live outside the public energy grid.

Where are the Hydrogen power plants, they should be on line soon right?

Hell you can't build anything in this country without years of government red tape telling you how not to kill an ant hill.

You greennies people better get a handle on reality. This is mostly a coal fired country, nothing has changed in centuries. It's cheap, we own it, we use it, get use to it.

If the White Zombie was a 30 foot motor home, with electric motors on all 4 wheels, and had massive batteries bank that could do 11s, I would be impressed.
But it a freak'en motor home.

[Old Moparz]

Don't think all the answers come from Hydrogen.
Powers isn't cheap, it might be years before the cost comes down to the consumer world. In other words, the market will tell whether they will be successfully, but it still has to compete with gas and other technologies.

Solar powered cars are as free as the sun, they will come on strong as soon as the solar panels are affordable.
My cousin's home runs completely on the sun. I hope by the time I retire, I can live outside the public energy grid.

Where are the Hydrogen power plants, they should be on line soon right?

Hell you can't build anything in this country without years of government red tape telling you how not to kill an ant hill.

You greennies people better get a handle on reality. This is mostly a coal fired country, nothing has changed in centuries. It's cheap, we own it, we use it, get use to it.

If the White Zombie was a 30 foot motor home, with electric motors on all 4 wheels, and had massive batteries bank that could do 11s, I would be impressed.
But it a freak'en motor home.

I understand what you're saying, but I still thought the goofy little Datsun was pretty cool. I like seeing anything that's different, so a 110 MPH, 1/4 mile in 11.5 seconds with cordless drill batteries is awesome.   

[W4ATL]

He is the first environmentalist I have heard that takes a positive and patriotic attitude toward electric cars.  The main argument for an electric car should be less money into the Middle East.  That argument will appeal to the most people.  Trying to put a guilt trip on muscle car owners is not the way to win friends and that is what most enviro-wackos do.

Battery technology still needs to improve. And the EE that told him that you can't do better than an 18 sec. ET was basing it on mid 90s battery technology.  Batteries have come a long way since then and they have a long way to go.

[1969chargerrtse]

From what I read awhile back there are quite a few Hydrogen stations out there and being built. CA where the test Honda Clarity is there are at least 3 spread apart for the owners to be able to get around for the testing. FL has some going up and we are the first on the East Coast building one in my neighbor town of Hamden Ct. Remember Hydrogen is the most abundent fuel source and 3 times more powerful per unit than gas. The big thing is we can get it from people that don't want us dead for religious reasons. As for Coal, that's how I heat my house. Right from the good ole USA.

[bull]

Thanks for the heads up.  It's bad enough being beat by a 4 door Charger due to my shortshifting but no amount of being on top of my game will be faster than that little ride.

I haven't seen the Zombie at the track yet but would be anxious to hear his take on coal fired power plants & damned up rivers, lakes against his "gasoline is bad" for the environment thinking.  Also interested how he disposes of his batteries after each swap. 

All that doesn't matter, right? As long as you hate gas you're a true environmentalist.

[Mopar2Ya]

I luv gas. 
http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,52156.0.html

[1969chargerrtse]

He is the first environmentalist I have heard that takes a positive and patriotic attitude toward electric cars.  The main argument for an electric car should be less money into the Middle East.  That argument will appeal to the most people.  Trying to put a guilt trip on muscle car owners is not the way to win friends and that is what most enviro-wackos do.

Battery technology still needs to improve. And the EE that told him that you can't do better than an 18 sec. ET was basing it on mid 90s battery technology.  Batteries have come a long way since then and they have a long way to go.

Big Whoa there buddy!  I hope you weren't meaning me when you said that bad word " enviro mental person ". I brag all day long how my big gas sucking 440 is out there spewing toxic fumes trying to help out with global warming. Matter of fact had I done a little more cruising this past summer maybe everything up here in the freezing East Coast would'nt be covered in snow and ice.  I don't care if a volt can do the mile in under 5 sec. I'll
be cruising around in my classic Charger till I die. Amen.  Oh yes it really is to become less reliant on people that want us dead. 

[bull]

I brag all day long how my big gas sucking 440 is out there spewing toxic fumes try to help out with global warming.

You need to do it more because we're expecting more record low temps here in the Portland area later this month.

[W4ATL]

He is the first environmentalist I have heard that takes a positive and patriotic attitude toward electric cars.  The main argument for an electric car should be less money into the Middle East.  That argument will appeal to the most people.  Trying to put a guilt trip on muscle car owners is not the way to win friends and that is what most enviro-wackos do.

Battery technology still needs to improve. And the EE that told him that you can't do better than an 18 sec. ET was basing it on mid 90s battery technology.  Batteries have come a long way since then and they have a long way to go.

Big Whoa there buddy!  I hope you weren't meaning me when you said that bad word " enviro mental person ". I brag all day long how my big gas sucking 440 is out there spewing toxic fumes trying to help out with global warming. Matter of fact had I done a little more cruising this past summer maybe everything up here in the freezing East Coast would'nt be covered in snow and ice.  I don't care if a volt can do the mile in under 5 sec. I'll be cruising around in my classic Charge till I die. Amen.

I'm with you there brother. I hope to get gas for my Charger until I die.  I would also like to stick it to the Middle East too. Less reliance on them would be a good thing for us.

[defiance]

From an energy independence standpoint, electricity is OVERWHELMINGLY better than gas: The US supplies the fuel for over 85% of the electricity produced here, and the rest is primarily nuclear, which we get from countries like Canada and Australia, who we're on excellent terms with.  

From an environmentalist standpoint, electricity a university study I looked at a while back found that mile-per-mile, electricity puts more of some pollutants and less of others (don't remember which ones), but that the overall impact was neither better nor worse with the current mixture of US energy sources.

From a versatility standpoint, however, electric is again overwhelmingly superior.  If a new technology emerges to produce electricity, adoption can be done piecemeal, one plant at a time, with no need to change the entire country's infrastructure.

[BB1]

 

From what I read awhile back there are quite a few Hydrogen stations out there and being built. CA where the test Honda Clarity is there are at least 3 spread apart for the owners to be able to get around for the testing. FL has some going up and we are the first on the East Coast building one in my neighbor town of Hamden Ct. Remember Hydrogen is the most abundant fuel source and 3 times more powerful per unit than gas. The big thing is we can get it from people that don't want us dead for religious reasons. As for Coal, that's how I heat my house. Right from the good ole USA.

From what I'm hearing you say, is the world's energy so called crises is over. Yes?
Stations? Do you mean electrical power station?
I'm going beyond the automotive industry; I'm talking what will light up my home in the future.

What will water vapor do if millions of cars and industries run on Hydrogen? Global Humidity?
Rain 24/7 365, seams like everything man does will cause the earth to suffer in some way according to some people.

We where going nuclear in the 50s, then environmentalist said no we can't. The rest of world enjoys an abundance of power from there nuclear plants, and we invented it.
We can't drill for oil here, off shore or in Alaska. Environmentalist said no we want the caribou to have land untouched my man.
So we have to buy oil from the people that want to kill us.  

Thank you environmentalist your religion is killing us.

I want alternative energy source too, lets not leave any rock unturned.  

I'd still like to see a motor home do 11s.

[1969chargerrtse]

I wouldnt go as far as saying the crises is over, but the future is looking good. Do some research into a Hydrogen future and it's exciting. There are all ready new large factories that run on huge commercial Hydrogen cells that cut the cost of buying electricity from electrical suppliers big time. In fact they make more than they need and feed it back into the grid. I think shows like Discovery did a segment on Hydrgen in the future. 

[SFRT]

I think its cool. I wonder what sort of costs are involved. 100% direct power is pretty awesome. I for one would LOVE to have say a a body
400 hp electric mopar. because, once you set it up its pretty much maintenance free.

[Old Moparz]

From an energy independence standpoint, electricity is OVERWHELMINGLY better than gas: The US supplies the fuel for over 85% of the electricity produced here, and the rest is primarily nuclear, which we get from countries like Canada and Australia, who we're on excellent terms with.

And being on good terms is the biggest reason we should invade those countries. They'll never expect it & the element of surprise will be on our side. A few more states & stars on the flag would be cool too. 

[hemigeno]

From an energy independence standpoint, electricity is OVERWHELMINGLY better than gas: The US supplies the fuel for over 85% of the electricity produced here, and the rest is primarily nuclear, which we get from countries like Canada and Australia, who we're on excellent terms with.

And being on good terms is the biggest reason we should invade those countries. They'll never expect it & the element of surprise will be on our side. A few more states & stars on the flag would be cool too. 

Bob for president.  A chicken in every pot, Mopar in every garage, and never a dull moment...