Question; what has 3700kW, 23,000Nm and cover 400m in less than four seconds? Well… nothing yet, but it's coming.
Meet the crew from Top EV Racing in Western Australia, who are setting out to build an electric dragster that is capable of going up against the fastest Top Fuel cars in the world.
It's not just a pipe dream, either. Local drag racing governing body, ANDRA, will let the car run against 7000kW nitro-methane monsters once it's approved – and the team's owner, electrical engineer Michael Fragomeni, reckons it'll even do a pass at half the speed of sound - in excess of 600km/h – if they can find a runway long enough.
We already know that electric cars – like the Tesla Model S, for example – are pretty capable of outrageous acceleration. But the Top EV car is at a whole new level of crazy.
Top EV's car isn't the work of a moment – there's simply nothing on sale in terms of basic electrical bits that can handle the forces and demands that a dragster requires. And the aim is to make this a viable business, and not just a garagista's plaything.
"We're talking about enough potential power, mounted within a foot behind my head, to run a whole suburb of houses with lights and appliances switched on," Michael told newatlas.com.
"We've spent a lot of time on this project, and we're in for the long haul, because we want to do this right, we want to do this safely and we want to promote the sport."
The car is still a year away from turning a volt in anger, but we're already pretty charged. Charged? Get it? Never mind.
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