TonyWilliams
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I've been asked to join the board for this electric vehicle race effort for the 2013 Baja 1000:
Rokeby said:(EV Joke)
Maybe if we get started right away we could have healthy, productive
current bushes at prepositioned strategic locations along the course.
Maybe you need both; red for +, black for -.
smkettner said:Are they running off the shelf Optima batteries? Compartment looks small to me.
drees said:This EV (SRI EV1 Electric Off Road Racer is what they're calling it) is being built and prepped by the guys over at EV West in San Marcos, North San Diego County.
They don't have any info on the project up on their website, but they have some videos up on YouTube and some posts about it on their Facebook page.
The pack is built using LiFePO4 CALB batteries I believe.
That is kinda cheezy for Optima unless they are an official sponsor providing something.TonyWilliams said:smkettner said:Are they running off the shelf Optima batteries? Compartment looks small to me.
They aren't Optima at all... they had this car at a show recently, and the Optima guys put their sticker on it.
The two packs are 1800 pounds, 83kWh.
Electric4Me said:Awesome! I love this! One thing from the video doesn't make sense though: a driver stated that the car weighed 5000 lbs. With a 1800 lb battery pack, how can this thing weigh more than 3000 lbs?
Also, the video quotes a 100 mile range. Is that in the LA4 cycle like the Leaf, or 100 flat out Baja 1k miles? Will they have 10+ batteries pre-staged along the route to swap out?
Well obviously they have provided cash for placement of their sticker. They might even hide a lead-acid battery in there somewhere to boot the car up, too.smkettner said:That is kinda cheezy for Optima unless they are an official sponsor providing something.
Very misleading at the very least.
I must be missing something - you've got a car going flat out through the desert, but you're going to have, say, 3 battery packs? That would mean that you'd have to be able to charge a pack AND leapfrog a race car going 60+ MPH with an 1800 lb. battery pack within about 2 hours, max.TonyWilliams said:100 miles flat out... about 1.2 miles per kWh. The batteries are almost $40k, so no, there won't be 10 sets. Maybe 3 sets, and they will be charged while the race is ongoing.
drees said:Well obviously they have provided cash for placement of their sticker. They might even hide a lead-acid battery in there somewhere to boot the car up, too.smkettner said:That is kinda cheezy for Optima unless they are an official sponsor providing something.
Very misleading at the very least.
ahagge said:I must be missing something - you've got a car going flat out through the desert, but you're going to have, say, 3 battery packs? That would mean that you'd have to be able to charge a pack AND leapfrog a race car going 60+ MPH with an 1800 lb. battery pack within about 2 hours, max.
Are they going to have a helicopter with a quick charger aboard taking power from the chopper engine? :?:
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