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Electric Cars Hit Milestone With first race Grand Prix before.
The world's first series of Grand fully electric Prix, FIA championship Formula E launches this year, he will oppose the runners electric powered car against another ten street course of downtown Beijing in Los Angeles and Miami, Rio de Janeiro to Monte Carlo and Berlin blog linked How does the electric battery to gasoline on the race track.
The first public demonstration of the car that the ten teams will use the Spark-Renault SRT 01E, is scheduled for Monday at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas Former F1 driver Brazilian Lucas de Grassi, test pilot Official of the formula E, will be behind the wheel of the vehicle, which was built by Spark Racing Technology in collaboration with a consortium of some of the major motorsports manufacturers including Dallara, McLaren, Renault, Williams and Michelin See quiz linked What You Don t Know About cars and fuel.
Formula E ramp glitz quotient increased significantly in recent weeks, announcements that the teams will be commissioned by the movie star and passionate electric drive Leonardo DiCaprio paired with the electric carmaker Venturi Automobiles and French luxury by billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin group other classic car racing teams competing as teams IndyCar Andretti Autosport and Jay Penske dragon Racing and squads that focus entirely on green technologies, such as Drayson Racing UK.
The future of our planet depends on our ability to adopt vehicles, clean fuel-efficient power, DiCaprio said in a statement relacionadas View Photos Cars Fired Our love-hate relationship with this fuel.
But the race organizers have also sought to highlight an EV benefit beyond low emissions and cheap fuel Formula E series is to help make the sexiest electric cars, said formula E spokesman Tom Phillips electric cars are expected to reach speeds and accelerations on by with classical skiers, running at 150 miles per hour to 240 km / h and streaking from a dead stop to 60 mph 97 km h 2 9 seconds, you will have many Action, said Phillips.
Accentuation of the series and sustainability visibility broadcast deals have been signed with FOX Sports and TV Asahi of Japan, and Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck and its partners have invested reported 21 million for the defenders of the series and the electric car say this is just the beginning They argue that EV technology continues to evolve and improve, the superior performance of inherently more efficient electric motor could give traditional internal combustion engine racers a run for their money.
Of course, you will not be seeing competing electric cars alongside internal combustion vehicles in NASCAR or Formula 1 races in batteries near future that would be light enough to fit in a race car just aren t ready to push the vehicles fast enough, or long enough Supercomputing Apparatus could pave the way for energy efficient motors.
In the course of the street, electric vehicles could become much more competitive with conventional vehicles when running at the top, with the advantage, boost battery, they benefit of regenerative braking on the slopes but tortuous enough batteries light to maintain with combustion engines will still charge t last long enough.
All this will be part of the sport in the upcoming competitions Formula E Each team will use two identical electric cars per race During the race an hour, drivers must make two stops mandatory pit to change cars Phillips said both cars will last the race if the driver properly handle the power of the battery, like a classic Formula 1 driver manages tire wear throughout a race, but a driver who opposes too late can run out of power battery and won t be able to finish the race We hope it will make for an exciting race and strategies of interesting team, said Phillips.
For race viewers, switching the car can be used to emphasize one of the main disadvantages of current EV limited technology†But pit stops are part of NASCAR racing in Formula 1, and many fans enjoy their amazing screens accuracy and speed of Formula teamwork E will offer its own unique version†dashboard driver 109 yards 100 meters down the pit lane of a vehicle to another.
Although advances in batteries will be needed to improve the EV range, both on the track and off, electric car already today technology can offer a surprising rate.
The experimental electric cars have already reached sustained speeds of over 180 mph 290 km h For comparison, the fastest Grand Prix ever in 2003, the winner completed the race in 153 8 mph 247 9 km h and car student builds Ohio State University known as the Buckeye Bullet holds the current world record for a land vehicle electrically powered just a shade under 308 mph 496 km h the record land speed for an internal combustion vehicle driven by the wheel is a shadow 439 mph on 706 5 km h.
The side of the performance of the electric driving becomes very clear, said Professor Giorgio Rizzoni main engineering faculty advisor Ohio project, which is also supported by Venturi Even in a typical hybrid, for example, you can think of electric power on board as something that could give a helping hand and make a car with a small gasoline engine feel more like a sports car.
His students concentrate on taking one step further How to push this technology to make smaller and more powerful electric drive systems, he requested more importantly, how do you extract the maximum performance of lithium ion batteries we re using pushing to limit absolute.
No design or technical progress supercharged potential electric race as lithium-ion batteries, the EV experts say consumers who use smartphones and tablets enjoy every day of research dollars and untold development spent over the two decades, but for high-performance electric vehicles, the gain is power.
We speak a performance multi-seven to six automotive powertrain time duty on batteries older lead acid, made possible by lithium batteries, said electric car pioneer John Waters who led the General Motors-battery design EV1 electric and S-10 vehicles that hit uS roads briefly in the 1990s, it is the beginning of the last frontier for energy storage that we know the elements lithium is the lightest metal on elementary graphic, and as it was applied consumer electronic batteries in the 1980s and the late 1990s, we now apply to vehicles See Related Photos Sept ingredients for better electric car batteries.
Even the best modern batteries aren t in high energy density as a combustion fuel such as gasoline But electric vehicles are able to compensate for this limitation due to the intrinsic efficiency of the electric motor Combustion engines simply can t compare even with a starting head over a century only about 14 percent to 26 percent of the energy of the fuel put into a gas tank of the internal combustion engine is used to move the car on the road rest energy is lost, mainly as heat and exhaust.
The combustion engine is a kind of Rube Goldberg design torque and movement that we grew up with and take for granted, Waters said not on Mars, seeking to design an engine for the first time, would say, Let's go blow a group of the carbon chains to make a piston moving up and down, then process a huge thing, heavy called a crankshaft, which is then connected to a large steering wheel and connected to a transmission and gear moving d a drive shaft and so on until finally, a wheel and tire and finally turn a car actually starts moving.
Electric motors, however, operate at efficiency of over 90 percent because they are much simpler and lose less energy along the way you store electrons in a box, which is connected by a cable to an engine that doesn t really need a differential, a complex transmission, or a crankshaft, but just a simple box, Waters said.
An electric motor is rather connected to a controller, which serves as a kind of gas which regulates the amount of energy sent is always provided to the engine at any time when required by the accelerator pedal Acceleration is in many vehicles snappy electric because the couple depends on the flow of electrons from the engine is immediate, the same way a hair dryer fan motor goes on at full speed spinning in a moment in an electric vehicle, there no clutch, gearbox multi-speed or variable power derived from rotational shafts of a combustion engine, which can vary dramatically†as evidenced by the gauge of turns on the dashboard.
For all these reasons, Waters argues that electric vehicles have the potential to eclipse traditional distance race cars in performance is not black magic, it's just ordinary physics, he said, and it is not really a tree-hugging Conversation in the race, it is purely on acceleration or new ways we might be able to go faster on the track relacionadas View Photos design students ultra-efficient cars in Eco-Marathon.
Engineers working on high-speed racing electric vehicles are free to explore new ways to squeeze the efficiency of their vehicles in a way that is possible conventional automotive engineers performance EV racing design their own engines reduce weight, improve aerodynamics, create their own pieces and usually pull out all the stops in the name to go faster.
While conventional racing organizations once operated in the same, most of them now impose serious restrictions to stop cars going too fast, and endanger drivers, and promote races close and competitive, NASCAR IndyCar organizations to apply strict rules and standards that standardize vehicles and blocked a part of the innovation that has always led the fastest drivers in the first race time, for example, IndyCar has seen its best unofficial lap clocked 1997-242 333 mph 389,997 km h, but safety rules now maintain speeds in 220S the running series for six years with a single engine provider before lifting this restriction 2012 teams can t even bring many internal changes, or design their own suspension and aerodynamic parts.
The members of Bullet Ohio State Buckeye team believe that the process of custom-design and construction of their pieces to challenge one day land speed records combustion engines for example, they focus on repeating and refining part found in electric vehicles called controller, consisting of an inverter, which alters or reverses the DC battery into alternating current that powers the motor.
This kind of technology in the range of power we need for these speeds existed for industrial purposes, Rizzoni explained and devices are like the size of a refrigerator, not something you can put in a car So with our industry partners, we work hard miniaturize things and pack as much AC power possible in the smallest possible package.
As for the new Formula E series, it will be run as an open championship, which means that each team can design his own cars, seeking the best way to meet the need for speed in more flexible global specifications presented by FIA F d ration Internationale de l'Automobile, which sanctioned the race.
While it is the goal of all race cars go as fast as possible, they should also be able to slow down, especially in the winding tracks along the way style racing Fortunately for Formula E, today electric technology has an advantage on combustion engines on these courses.
In the past, Formula 1 racing cars used to losing so much kinetic braking energy as heat literally drives their fiber warm red glow carbon Organization has adopted a system to recover energy lost in 2009 vehicles power can use the motor itself to slow down, which means the energy units aren t lost, but instead are converted into electrons and back to the battery for later use regenerative braking it doesn t come into play much on large oval tracks like the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where the strong braking is scarce and battery power just can t keep gas, but on winding tracks, where speeds are up to 200 mph and brake frequently, the regenerative braking can make electric vehicles more energy efficient and powerful relacionadas View Photos Rare look Inside Carmakers†Drive for 55 MPG.
I did a little analysis and data on the issue, said Waters If you are managing the dynamics of finding as much of this as possible kinetic energy, which also allows you to reduce the size of the brakes and gain weight, electric car has parity or a potential advantage compared to a combustion engine to the road course races.
Performance electric cars aren t limited to the racecourse The Tesla Model S honored as Car of the Year 2013 Motor Trend has 0 to 60 mph time of only 4 2 seconds when equipped with the performance of battery 85 P85 kWh This puts right up there among the fastest consumption of sports sedans on the market the S model tops out at 130 mph 209 km h See Related Articles, Tesla Motors success gives the electric car market a load.
Like Tesla founder Elon Musk innovations stimulated whole EV industry, Formula E aims to foster progress in the thrill of competition that will benefit consumers if we can speed kind of technology that's used, it can filter up 'the average road car, as it does in a car from the track to the road, said Tom Phillips, the spokesman of Formula E.
John Waters believes that s sure to come, and said a look at the past provides a roadmap to the cars of the future View related articles, electric car ride China Impressive, but not enough.
Innovation takes place on the circuit, which is how Indy started, he said he has always been rich guys with their cars, looking to push the envelope guy like Carl Fisher, James Allison, Arthur Newby, and Frank Wheeler founders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway were the same pedigree as the people you're seeing now enter the conversation with the electric vehicle View related documents American teenagers are driving much less four theories about why.
Innovators in Silicon Valley and Europeans minded tend to be very steward minded people and they wonder how can we change a dirty sport to promote philosophies and technologies that are more sustainable†but make sure it is always great fun for racing fans as well see related documents, US While Tesla probes, what you need to know about car fires.
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