Nascar- Hybrid or all electric

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Maybe not NASCAR, exactly. But electric motors have a crapton of torque, and it would be pretty interesting to watch a race, if the course was one that required a lot of speeding up and slowing down.
 

JEDI

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Maybe not NASCAR, exactly. But electric motors have a crapton of torque, and it would be pretty interesting to watch a race, if the course was one that required a lot of speeding up and slowing down.

ahh.. grand prix?
 

JulesMaximus

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I don't follow nascar now so what makes you think I'd give a crap about it if they were all electric?
 

thedarkwolf

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Nascar tries to keep their cost down for teams so they keep things primitive. They aren't doing either of those things anytime soon. They were running carbs still a few years ago and are only running throttle body injection last I heard which is still pretty primitive as far as fuel injection goes think late 80s tech.
 
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sdifox

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How are they going to refuel with electric? Replaceable battery pack?
 

tynopik

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part of the appeal of nascar is the roar of the engines and the way they rumble the stands

maybe if they add in subwoofers or something so you could get the same feeling as they rush by . . .
 

Red Squirrel

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part of the appeal of nascar is the roar of the engines and the way they rumble the stands

maybe if they add in subwoofers or something so you could get the same feeling as they rush by . . .

Yeah that's the thing with electric it does not sound as good as gas. The other day I saw someone driving by with what look like a regular mini van that was converted to electric and it sounded like an electric tooth brush.

Though the sound of a huge induction motor powered by AC sounds awesome though, but mostly just when it starts up.
 

marincounty

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Forget that- I say 1000hp two-stroke engines. Imagine the smoke! and the crashes.
I would say diesel but they're too heavy and slow.
 

Eli

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They should let electric ones into the regular races. Then it would just happen naturally, as all the internal combustion engines get spanked and everyone jumps on the bandwagon.

Don't get me wrong, I love engines probably more than most - the smell, the sound. But the electric motor is a far superior in just about every aspect conceivable. Once people get a taste of what they're capable of, there is no looking back.

If only battery technology could make some leaps and bounds...
 

sdifox

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They should let electric ones into the regular races. Then it would just happen naturally, as all the internal combustion engines get spanked and everyone jumps on the bandwagon.

Don't get me wrong, I love engines probably more than most - the smell, the sound. But the electric motor is a far superior in just about every aspect conceivable. Once people get a taste of what they're capable of, there is no looking back.

If only battery technology could make some leaps and bounds...

no battery powered car is going to finish Indy 500 at this point in time.
 

Eli

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It probably wouldn't be hard at all actually - like you said, refuel with replaceable battery packs that can be swapped out in 30 seconds in the pit. That's the only real limitation.

I guess it would suck if they had to swap every 10 minutes.
 

twinrider1

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But what would they call the sequel to Days Of Thunder? Days of Whirrrr?

YAWN!

I want an all electric car for daily driving. But I don't want them on the track or the dragstrip. Race gas just smells too good.
 

Brian Stirling

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Since most of NASCAR's races are ovals and high bank ovals and the power demands are nearly constant a hybrid is a bad choice for such an application. For road racing, where you're off the throttle and on the brakes a bunch reclaiming energy while braking will reduce energy requirements, but when there's very little braking there's almost nothing to be reclaimed.

NASCAR does a few road races each year but for the few races a hybrid would make sense the costs to develop would not.

An all electric car is even less likely as NASCAR runs LONG races of, like, 500 miles and 500 miles on a battery pack, even if you were driving country roads at 50mph or less is not feasible at this point so racing at 150mph or more is probably an order of magnitude out of the question.

Lastly, since Ford and GM make most of there money selling gasoline cars and trucks there is ZERO chance NASCAR ill do this in your lifetime!


Brian
 

Humpy

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I think the idea is to power them with lasers from a central tower.
 

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Forget that- I say 1000hp two-stroke engines. Imagine the smoke! and the crashes.
I would say diesel but they're too heavy and slow.



Diesel would be fun for sure. Not really that slow when tricked out, but way heavy. In NASCAR style racing a diesel engine wouldnt fair too well at all vs gas. Make em all race towing 10,000lbs though
 

MtnMan

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4 hour pit stops to recharge are going to make for some dull racing.
 
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