Scottish Elises

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36606500

Anyone else read this and want one !

Light weight and awesome to 60 ..

Sounds familiar. ..

(On phone cant type)

electric car sets record for an electric car.... err.... So what?

"So far, no petrol-powered production car has managed to hit the same speed in a comparable time."

scott_e wrote:"So far, no petrol-powered production car has managed to hit the same speed in a comparable time."

so, let's get this clear.

this is a one-off, non-production car that's faster than a production car?

May I remind you that an F1 car runs on petrol, and is a tad quicker than this POS?

or if you really want to go drag racing, how about this:

Fair point ! .... (also cant be bother arguing today )

scott_e wrote:Fair point ! .... (also cant be bother arguing today )

no problem..

just another example of BBC reporting being so blatantly crap.

2015 Red Bull F1 car 0-60 1.7 secs.

tut

Twas always my understanding that F1 cars have relatively pish 0-60 cos the downforce isn't effective at these speeds, this limiting traction

tut wrote:2015 Red Bull F1 car 0-60 1.7 secs.

tut

2015 Red bull probably the worst car they have ever fielded (engine wise)

I recon Vettel's start at the Canadian GP would be the benchmark

Scuffers wrote:

scott_e wrote:"So far, no petrol-powered production car has managed to hit the same speed in a comparable time."

so, let's get this clear.

this is a one-off, non-production car that's faster than a production car?

May I remind you that an F1 car runs on petrol, and is a tad quicker than this POS?

or if you really want to go drag racing, how about this:

Some bits of that did come off a production line

like the headlights


The real clever stuff with this formula student car is they will have torque vectoring. The driver won't be driving the car they will just be telling the computer where they are going. The computer will be handling under and oversteer and it will be helping the driver out with the steering

I can imagine someone in formula student will be looking if the car needs to actually have the student installed

thinfourth wrote:stuff thinfourth said

This in spades. Real shame the BBC felt the need to write a different story to the actual news! Electric (or at least non petrol) cars are the future. These sort of things help the technologies, though I doubt we'll all end up driving around in single person 1990s formula ford looking mobiles!

For me, the Top Gear Tesla vs. muscle car drag was probably more important than what the beeb are trying to say there. Electric cars can have some serious acceleration. Just a shame they end up weighing so much...

Chris

Yep a drivetrain that can respond in milliseconds altering torque to each wheel independently without waiting for an combustion engine to wake up or a hydraulic pump to build up pressure


You think turbo charged cars have a bad throttle lag

Go drive an EV

It makes a K-series seem ponderous

Corranga wrote:

thinfourth wrote:stuff thinfourth said

This in spades. Real shame the BBC felt the need to write a different story to the actual news! Electric (or at least non petrol) cars are the future. These sort of things help the technologies, though I doubt we'll all end up driving around in single person 1990s formula ford looking mobiles!

For me, the Top Gear Tesla vs. muscle car drag was probably more important than what the beeb are trying to say there. Electric cars can have some serious acceleration. Just a shame they end up weighing so much...

Chris

exactly, EV's are improving at a phenomenal rate thanks to Elon, shame the BBC can't actually write accurate/coherent stories to cover it.