White Zombie
I'm still chuckling while writing this.
From the WSJ ($? "Those Muscle Cars Really Are Electric", John Fialka, 1 August 2007), Portlander John Wayland took a '72 Datsun 1200, shoved a couple of forklift motors and 30-some batteries in it, and is now the fastest street legal drag racer in the country. It completes a quarter mile at 109 mph in 11.9 seconds, dusting all kinds of muscle gassers.
Yes, the batteries are a little dangerous (the WSJ explains how he got the PlasmaBoy nickname) and the electricity probably comes from a coal-fired or natural gas fueled plant. As I claimed in this article about biodiesel dragsters and this one about solar-n-hydrogen powered stretch Hummer limos, these may be totally impractical, but they demonstrate the potential, push the envelope, and turn skeptics into believers.
Here's Wayland's EV dragster homepage, PlasmaBoyRacing.
From the WSJ ($? "Those Muscle Cars Really Are Electric", John Fialka, 1 August 2007), Portlander John Wayland took a '72 Datsun 1200, shoved a couple of forklift motors and 30-some batteries in it, and is now the fastest street legal drag racer in the country. It completes a quarter mile at 109 mph in 11.9 seconds, dusting all kinds of muscle gassers.
Yes, the batteries are a little dangerous (the WSJ explains how he got the PlasmaBoy nickname) and the electricity probably comes from a coal-fired or natural gas fueled plant. As I claimed in this article about biodiesel dragsters and this one about solar-n-hydrogen powered stretch Hummer limos, these may be totally impractical, but they demonstrate the potential, push the envelope, and turn skeptics into believers.
Here's Wayland's EV dragster homepage, PlasmaBoyRacing.
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