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st-evo-9*corn fed-8urvet* · 08-13-2008, 09:58 AM

so i was watching supercars exposed last night and an electric car was reviewed called the tesla ...
http://www.teslamotors.com/

this car is essentially a lotus chassis, with different panels and an electric lithium battery "motor" thrown in making 200+TQ and 248HP

so what i wanted to know was whats everyones opinion on electric cars participating in motorsports? drag, road race, rally etc....

should they be allowed to run?

is it far to the other cars in that sport?
*here is an example to justify the above question*

- take rally racing with WRC rules which state the cars must be limited to 225KW (around 300bhp/tq) so if an in electric/battery "motor" could produce 300hp and 300tq constantly and its power curve was just a straight line accross the dyno sheet all the was to 13,000rpm it obviously has an unfair advantage to say the rally subaru wrx who has a traditional power curve with arched tq and arching hp and isnt making the same power at 3000rpm as it would make at 6000rpm. also altitute and weather would not phase an electric motors performance at all but reduce performance in a combustion engine.

should it be considered a motor?

now discuss!!

08-13-2008, 09:58 AM	#1
st-evo-9corn fed-8urvet Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 501 Tweet	electric cars and there place in motorsports so i was watching supercars exposed last night and an electric car was reviewed called the tesla ... http://www.teslamotors.com/ this car is essentially a lotus chassis, with different panels and an electric lithium battery "motor" thrown in making 200+TQ and 248HP so what i wanted to know was whats everyones opinion on electric cars participating in motorsports? drag, road race, rally etc.... should they be allowed to run? is it far to the other cars in that sport? here is an example to justify the above question - take rally racing with WRC rules which state the cars must be limited to 225KW (around 300bhp/tq) so if an in electric/battery "motor" could produce 300hp and 300tq constantly and its power curve was just a straight line accross the dyno sheet all the was to 13,000rpm it obviously has an unfair advantage to say the rally subaru wrx who has a traditional power curve with arched tq and arching hp and isnt making the same power at 3000rpm as it would make at 6000rpm. also altitute and weather would not phase an electric motors performance at all but reduce performance in a combustion engine. should it be considered a motor? now discuss!!