My Take on NASCAR's New Electric Vehicle
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ม.ค. 2024
- Kenny Wallace has some thoughts on NASCAR's electric vehicle.
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You’re exactly right Herm, I think if NASCAR did go to 100% electric it would be the final nail in their coffin. Great job!
if you go to the Clash BOO this car
@@speediepitstop1531. 1/2 the crowd is just there for the concert.
Go woke... Go Broke... maybe Nascar is broke ...they just don't know it yet😂
Its just technology. Dont be afraid.
I mean i don't even know why you want to watch an auto race when there are horse races going on.@jamesemmeneckersr.1875
Do any of you watch imsa?
If Nascar goes electric, I'm done.
My husband was done when they started the chase for the championship. He always believed the most consistent team on top should win. That's what made them different than other sports.
You gona drive your nascar down I-95 😂😂😂😂
No your not
You won't be, you love NASCAR too much
I was done when it wasn't Stock Car
I haven’t watched a nascar race in years. This would put a nail in the coffin.
Drivers will have to learn He/she and pick a new sex
Danica wont be happy
Hand me the hammer.
If anyone has watched a formula E race , when the battery starts run low on power they pit under green and change cars , it dosent make any sense to double the expense !!
Not anymore they don't. Technology has advanced past that for them.
It’s not supposed to make sense it just supposed to get people divided just like we’re divided on everything else.
I don't want EV's any more than any of you folks, but the car swapping genuinely hasn't been the case in 9 years. In fact, this year, they're testing recharging while pitting because recharging has become viably quick.
Like I said, i'll be damned if I support EV's taking over my favorite sport, but lets not embellish. It doesn't help legitimate arguments.
Boring as hell.electrics.
They should jump into BARBIE CARS to show their endurance
What's funny is that the newer fans are already saying Nascar is trying to change to much. Nascar is unrecognizable from 30 years ago. Thanks Herm
"Nascar is unrecognizable from 30 years ago". So is just about everything else. Old fans are dying off and new ones have to be cultivated. Being mired in the past forever is not going to work. Time passes, things change. Lead, follow or get out of the way.
@karenkoe7096 I just get out of the way. Taking everything back from the youths is gonna be simple, you can't read a map, can't read, or write cursive. So we're gonna write our battle plans in cursive on a map 😂🤣 we win go-getter.
EV's suck! Green new scam!
*too much., You young guys don't take the time to spell correctly like us aging baby boomers.
@@shimshonbendan8730 As a young guy I take my time to spell.
Pit stops will be interesting when they park for 3 hours to charge the batteries.
If not longer
Battery swap seconds.
SOLID STATE BATTERIES ARE DOWN TO LESS THAN 15 MINS FOR A FULL CHARGE....
Would allow the drivers and crew enough time for a corn dog, nachos, a soft drink AND take a satisfying shit before resuming the race... who could possibly be against that? 😂
@@lawrencefranck9417the battery in an electric vehicle takes up the whole floor
With all the stage cautions and natural cautions and a 2 hour recharge stoppage should be a lot of time to pray it goes back to normal racing . 😅😅😅
2 things, wrecks should be real interesting now with the lithium battery fires being really spectacular and races will be a whole lot shorter since this thing can probably only make 25 full speed laps before it runs out of juice!
if we just limit their top speed we can increase their run time. lets keep them at around 40 mph, because that would be fun.
the only benefit with going "Lectric" would be hearing the drivers bitch about their race cars as they go by the grandstands! "HEY! did you hear that? Kenny needs another round of wedge!"
You'd hear them cursing in the cars. The f bomb for sure.lol
Or sound like your vacuum cleaners going by with that whiny sound, or that could be the drivers complaining, I cannot tell the difference if this is implemented, lol
The carbon footprint left behind from the mining industry to create the batteries for ev’s is way larger than combustion engines. The charging stations are powered by mainly fossil fuels.Dirt racing is the only true form of auto racing left!!
If I'm some what correct 100% of a internal combustion engine is recyclable.
E V battery 🔋 maybe 10%
BINGO!!! You are exactly right Kevin!!! The practice of mining to extract the raw materials needed to produce the lithium batteries for EV's is BY FAR the most environmentally destructive feat ever undertaken by mankind.
I think you're right too, Donald. @@donaldcreg5110
Dirt racing is in danger. (On multiple fronts) We do zero to protect the interest of the industry. We fail to organize independently and with other firms of motorsports to lobby legislators and the government to secure protections against regulations. Our head in the sand while we turn to FB and social media to bitch and moan daily while sharing our opinions and cult partisan rhetoric won’t accomplish anything. We already fail to recognize the many other traditions and failed ideology that’s eroding the sport. Dirty racing is the only Authenticate form of racing and always has been. But it’s still struggles just the same. It’s also governed by antiquated ideology and irrational rules. This is especially true for modified racing. The rules are often stupendous, antiquated and void of common sense.
As far as electrics foot print and waste, op is right. But that doesn’t justify the continuation of fossil fuel production cars or ex’s use its very real and tangible impact on our life. We need to continue to advance our research into alternative sources of stability. Regardless change is coming on a global scale. But it’s always interesting how Americans became so vulnerable that they got victimized by political propaganda spun in the late 80’s and heavily financed by the fossil fuel industry. How we protect one of the largest contributors to the manufactured inflation effecting our lives. Organizations that drove up costs during a pandemic while their cost of production and crude oil dropped more then 50%. A group of people whom bend us over the pump after yanking down our trousers daily. Those whom drove up the cost on every single thing we purchase at the store. Trillions in profit and sultans driving lambos through cities of gold while we put half our paycheck into gas to get groceries and get back to work. We are dumb AF.
@@donaldcreg5110electric isn’t the answer. Definitely not the permanent answer unless we Handel storage better. We can produce electric fairly inexpensive with little carbon footprint with modern tech. Electric motors are far more powerful and efficient then combustion. But although it’s not the permanent answer neither is the status quote. It’s our inert nature to defend that what’s universally bad for us while we willingly get screwed over. Look how quick we are to blame any President when fuel costs go up at the pump while Ignoring the data and refusing to push back against an industry that molests the hard working core of America and the world. Instead of rallying against an industry that’s directly responsible for the inflation of every single product in the world while production cost was at historic low, we instead turn to tribalistic partisan divisions blaming others. There’s zero logic to the dense of fossil fuels besides our own ignorance, fear of change and the effects of 40 years of highly financed, strategic, propaganda.
Ford and GM have both announced that they are abandoning their electric vehicle lines just recently.
Excellent commentary! 100 % agree. Especially with the “shove them down my throat” part..
I go to Loudon for the sounds of the engines and the smell of the fuel. If you take that away, I’ll just stay home. I’d also ask how this change would affect pit stops and what do major crashes look like with volatile batteries in the cars?
It would ruin them.
I wish the fuel still had that great smell it use to though
@@davids5006 Agreed…
Batteries are not volatile. They can be flammable, though.
Electric bicycles and scooters have a future. The electric car is at best a so so stop gap measure. I’ve been a fan of NASCAR since I saw the King in a 62 Plymouth. Not sure why NASCAR is wasting time on an EV. If anything build some Hydrogen muscle cars to test, get way ahead of the curve.
Imagine having to go to a concert and everyone has to wear headphones!
NOOOOO!! Need to have the mighty V8 Sound mate. No EV crap. 🙂
Test it at Daytona. How many laps at 190 mph, and how long to swap out battery pack? How will the driver be protected in the event of a major roll over, or The Big One, where a pack is ripped loose and exists the car bursting into flames?
Gasoline is flammable too of didn't you know that...
@@kylereese4822Fuel cells are much easier to isolate, difficult to catastrophically rupture, and easy to extinguish in the event a fire does break out. A battey capable of sustaining race pace for anything like a reasonable amount of time is significantly harder to isolate from the driver, burns far longer and hotter, and cannot be reasonably extinguished or even suppressed by immediate response crews.
It'll be the final nail in the coffin of NASCAR. Make it a Pace Car.
Make it the car that Monster Trucks crush before the race!
Great idea. Make it the pace car so Nascar can say they have an EV on the track.
Baseball cards on the wheels, noise problem solved 😮. Cheers Herman
EVs too quiet....switch to studded tires......that would be awesome ....lol
Yea, they could have pit stops to change the clothespins
Part of attending a race is the roar of those high horse engines. Going EV sounds like a silent IROC race and the only excitement would be a battery cell catching fire in a wreck.
Completely agree with you there Herm. I would love to see your reaction to New Zealand stockcar/superstock racing, especially teams racing which is the event Bobby Pierce is racing in a support class this weekend. I personally love out stockcar/superstock racing here I have even worked on the cars myself.
Wonder how they’ll put that fire out those things burn for hours
I forgot, five lug nuts!!!
I haven’t yet seen a “stock” car with one lug nut. Change the name from NASCAR to NAAR
They may as well. What part of a "Stock Car" is still Stock?
one lug is such a safety hazard and huge liability. a driver, fan, or someone in the infield is gonna get killed from a loose tire oneday
Your really think the cars that were running a few years ago with 5 lug nuts were "Stock" ...please
@@ranndomundead9112Literally every single top-level GT and Open Wheel category runs single-lug wheels without problems. This is a team issue, not a tech issue.
@@griffinfaulkner3514 Go watch nascar races before single lugs and tell me how often wheels are barrelling around the track at 150mph.
Agree with you 100% Herman Great job! Loved interview with John Force
Electricity runs the pumps that put gas in your car. As for stock cars, the only thing stock is the brand name printed on the body.
Zip ties in the wheel holes will give you noise 😂
And baseball cards !
Keep doing what you are doing Kenny. you always tell it like it is 🎉
I love it Kenny all the car sounds you should make are perfect lol.
Recently I watched my first Race (Altlanta) and I am so impressed about the sound, speed and the action that I will come back in September and I have already tickets for Talladega too. BTW, I am coming all the way from Germany!
I work for a company that handles the yard operation for a Toyota plant. They trying to make us go to electric yard trucks. They brought in 2 or 3 different ones and the batteries wouldn’t hold up long enough without charging them. To charge them they used a big caterpillar diesel generator. lol. Plus in this day’s environment you would end arguing over who’s car needs that charging station first and out comes the guns.
big caterpillar diesel lmao
Sounds about right.... Toyota plant close to me has the guards using them and they just laugh at them
I went to a couple of warehouse in California that got them the drivers said the battery runs down to quick because they pull heavy loads moving the trls around
Toyota gave up on their electric car program in favor of hydrogen.
HICEV, Hydrogen combustion Engine is the way to go, not the stupid hydro fuel cells or electric
Haven't watched a NASCAR race in three years and don't miss it. Wouldn't bother me a bit if NASCAR went away.
This would be suicide for NASCAR.. if they did that I will continue watching dirt and shortrack just like Mr. Kenny is helping bring back!!
How there going to be aloud to drive over 200 mph in a microwave but can’t in an actual car
Imagine the risk of fire with EV for the driver ?
The fire's come from the fumes and pressure of the battery. Combustion engine's better.
imagine the risk for fans if one explodes in a crash let alone if many cars were involved in a crash in front of the stands many people will get hurt let alone the rescue personal saving them
Gas doesn’t catch fire? That’s news to me and millions of people.
That “risk of fire” statement is null and void when comparing to gasoline vehicles. They burn too.
Gasoline cars do catch fire, but they could be put out... e VS cannot.@@uncensored1948
@@uncensored1948 Put it this way when a gas car burns the fire can be put out. When an EV burns ... well, good luck with that! Some road course race tracks have already banned using EV's on the track because you cant just put water on it.
Would make good yard art
10 minutes of racing, 2 hours of charging, 10 minutes of racing, 2 hours of charging. Rinse and repeat
I like the semi smart electronic engine controls..... Like 1996-mid 2000's on most of the American built stuff. Don't just go into limp mode over bad plugs or coils like some of the newer ones do. 😅 Thought the 2013 avenger I had was blowing up but it was a bad coil and old plugs. Current truck still has the plugs/wires it had in it when it got it running just fine no clue how old they r.
What would Dale Earnhardt Sr. and Bill France Jr. have to say about this?
They'd be standing in their graves saying WTF?
Dale Sr would throw lug nuts at EVs
SHOW ME THE MONEY--- THEY ONLY GAVE A SHIT ABOUT THE MONEY
wrong@@rdejaynes
and Junior Johnson. You can't fill with moonshine..
I have concerns about fires with these batteries. They don’t recommend water due to spread of hazardous materials, or if you do, contain run off, problem is, even after putting them out, they still rekindle. In a rush to fix what is perceived to be one problem to create another is careless. I have to agree with you Kenny. Well stated..
Most families have 3 or 4 gas vehicles on average. Switching over to battery vehicles would be very expensive, especially as we watch electricity rates skyrocket over the next 10 years. In my state it increased 16% beginning this year.
I don't understand why they don't just use a renewable fuel like Methanol.
Methanol is methyl alcohol. It's production isn't much different from Ethanol or ethyl alcohol. We can either grow food, or we can grow crops to produce fuel. Which is more important? We've already sacreficed enough food crops for fuel crops. There's nothing wrong with having an electric racing series like F1 does. The problem is trying to force electric vehicles on the world.
Also, when methanol burns, it burns clear.... Makes it hard to know when there's a fuel fire. Methanol also produces less energy (by volume) on combustion than gasoline does and requires much larger amounts to do so.
@@aaronthomas6155sprint cars don't have a horsepower problem running methanol
The charging stations don't work in the cold weather.
They work in cold weather They just don't work in really cold weather like had a few weeks ago so yeah they better work on improving the technology of them chargers
Work ok in Norway and Artic Circle...
@@kylereese4822Failed miserably in Chicago
They can insulate them better.
lol so aside of orange trees here in New England global warmings got another plus!
Put two slots in the track of the Colosium and then let each fan have a controller for their favorite driver's car. That's what I did as a kid but not with full size cars :-0)
That's the future of drag racing gonna look like.
The sound is so much of the sport and look at sales. Consumers do not want to buy electric vehicles. So manufacturers are in a fkn mess.
I don't know what its like where Kenny is. But up here in the Boston area there are Tesla's everywhere. Their probably good for city driving if you have place to plug in,and your only commuting +-50 miles a day. And you can plug in every night. But if everyone goes electric for cars,trucks,and aircraft. Cape Air,A small airline that services Cape Cod,and the Islands is planning on electric aircraft. I will not be in one of those thanks. But if we get into a situation like a Blizzard of 1978 the penalized this are for weeks. What do you do if all vehicles including emergency equipment aren't moving. Our infrastructure simply can not handle everything plugged in at once. The system can't handle every AC unit working during a heat wave now. Hopefully people come to their senses and realize that electric everything, isn't for everyone. Auto manufacturers are starting to rethink that all EV's won't work.
You can watch restored films of New York in 1910. There are more horses than cars, and then 20 years later, in 1930, there are no horses whatsoever. Something better came along. Change happens. People still race horses,
Good analysis Kenny. I'm just dreading that day if it ever comes.
I don't think any of the elite series will go electric. But I definitely see them doing a NASCAR Eseries within next couple years
Im not an American, but I did watch a nascar race live. Electric cars would kill the adrenaline rush of spectators that its just going to be a snooze fest. The thundering sounds of engines revving on fast cars passing by is a huge appeal for nascar. Might as well watch a slot car racing championship.
The world runs on oil people Love ya Kenny
One day it won't. Not in our lifetime though.
Superspeedway racing with a hybrid battery and motor would be interesting. The motor-generator can recharge the battery but it's a parasitic drag, so you hold down the charge paddle while you're back in the draft and save power or burn more fuel to charge the battery instead of cruising around at half throttle. If you're in the lead and charged up you can pull the boost paddle for 50 horsepower to defend if somebody has a run, or drop in and draft them then use your boost to pass them back after they expended theirs. It'd be like the old slingshot, it has a fuel effect and it's a device with a battery that gets hot and performs more poorly if you abuse it. It's not totally phony like push to pass or DRS because you can use it whenever you decide to as the driver.
Electric cars do best in things situations with a lot of acceleration and braking. Garbage trucks, package delivery, downtown city traffic or... Martinsville. You could run a hell of an 125 lap electric car race at Martinsville.
I agree with you there is not enough charging station to supply the country,or enough supply if there was to meet the needs.
Tesla passes 500-000 charging stations...
Would the entire driving population just wait in line for 1 hour intervals. The shit don't work. The modern automobile took over a hundred years to reach the point we're at, but we're going to flip a switch in 10 years.
The pit stops will be tire changes, suspension changes, and there will be quick change batteries, slide a battery out and put a charged battery back into the vehicle. Just substituting batteries for gas. Teams are already trying pit crews to change the batteries out quickly! The "noise" will be piped in, according to where the cars are on the track.
Does anyone remember about 20 some years ago when electric open wheel cars raced at PIR? There was an accident and the facility had to be evacuated because of the toxic fumes!
Kenny, you doing the sounds would be great!
I know my TH-cam channel says NC Blues Man, but, I am an old railroader. The government is on our back side about pumping carbon admissions in the air. About, maybe a dozen years ago, or so, Caterpillar built a locomotive called SD70ECO it runs on 75% electric / 35% diesel. Now, instead of pumping carbon admissions into air they now pump radiation in the air, and lots of it. I don't think electric engines are any safer for the environment than the gas, or diesel engines.
Love ya Kenny!
Great vid!
Spot on Kenny sounds like listening to myself!😂
watch the Model S Plaid doing 216mph on a runway...
They actually pay good money to music composers to make sounds for the new cars. So Nascar having a sound on the car would be nothing that will not be expected in the future. Even the Jetson's space vehicles had sounds. Please let me point something out Kenny... no vehicle that has raced in Nascar in several decades is a car.
David Regan! Put it in the wall.. give LA a show!
They technically are cars. They just aren't "stock" cars..... The closest we've been to "stock" cars was back in the 80's when teams were still buying street cars and turning them into race cars.
I can hear the car before I see the car. That was what like at Road Atlanta last October in IMSA when I was there sitting across from pit road near the tower. The noise was deafening but I would like to go back. The cars run on electric and gas. Even some farts have noises.
The whole experience at NASCAR is the sound .
If you have ever been to Talladega on full green with those beasts screaming by in packs , you know what I mean.
368 million in America now 8 million more have come across the border recently and they thank you all for your free hospitality 😄
Plus, the free everything they get
@@jocalafarms4051 Ya, Welfair systems like social security and Medicare, unemployment insurance, free education, Covid relief, farming subsidies, tax relief and income tax credits. Oh wait thats all free shit you leverage at the cost or contribution if other tax payers that they don’t qualify for. Or do mean stuff like free living similar to the Honestead Act and Dawns act like your dead beat ancestors likely utilized when they floated over with their hands out? Pot calling the kettle black?
8 million 😂 lol try double that
As a Californian I say… you are absolutely right!!!
EV racer has minor fender bender on track and starts shooting out flames everywhere.
How nice, quiet conversation while watching NASCAR. Even gen z will fall asleep.
Seems like it would be like watching a slot car race. wow and wow again
Kenny you are awesome
I hope they bring this new car to the track as fast as possible.
I want to see a quiet SHORT race.
Or, a 45 minute pitstop.
Driver gets out of car, has lunch, takes a nap..... then goes back to racing.
Well that took about 4 times longer than it should have.
Electric Golf carts in the pits are great!
Ah, yes, the inevitable "electric golf cart" comment. Have you seen the 0-60 times for quite a few of those "golf carts"? They'll bury anything ICE powered, unless you're willing to drop high six figures on a Koenigsegg.
NASCAR is the dog n phony show what you just said is so true keep going
Amen Kenny..spot on
i'm curious about the safety aspect. With current gas powered race cars we know how to deal with fires and clean ups after a wreck whether one car or multiple cars. What will change with batteries in the cars in the event of a crash, will it rupture a cell, will it explode with a driver in the seat, how can they extinguish it, how will they clean a track if it ruptures and leaves debris on the surface. All these things affects the people on the teams and in the stands. I don't know what the other EV racing series do but they better have a hard look at the safety aspect of all this. And if i was a crew member I won't want to be around them until there are some new procedures put in place around these things. Hell even at their shops putting them together would add new hazards.... food for thought....
The big benefit of hydrogen is only water comes out of your exhaust
the big benefit of gasoline is that it smells awesome.
There's a lot of merit to hydrogen fueled engines. They would be more sustainable then electric. EV car batteries are bad for the environment. Engines, as we know them, can be mostly recycled. Politics is driving the policy of American industry. This only hurts America.
Water on the racetrack, that will be wonderful 😂
Tanks at 15-000-30-000psi...
so what do you do about all the water, its gotta go some where
They quit putting carburetors on cars in 1987 not the 70s, chey 87 pickups and passenger cars came with a 4 barrel carb.
Those were throttle bodies, not carburators
wrong, throttle bodies started in 87 with the 4.3 V6 only you had an option of throttle body or a 480 4 barrel carb but all v8s came with a 625 4 barrel carb all the way up to 88@@scottcash
Actually oldsmobile still used a quadra jet on the 307 through 1990 in their station wagons
@@scottcashWRONG !
Thank you for your honest words
I wish the SRX series was on tv more. Its getting better than Nascar
Kenny your on the right track. I work and build engines at Hyundai. They have even had contacts with Toyota about hydrogen combustion engines. I personally feel that we as Americans should be the most efficient in ALL phases of propulsion that we use. Our power grid CANNOT provide consistently now as is.
Pit Stops be like 2 hrs. long for a recharge. Time for a PB&J sandwich 🥪! Just let the drivers have a controller and they can have a full size RC car.
Days of thunder, they had time for ice cream
Or make them so they have enough battery that they don't need to recharge
@@timhefty504 Not possible at this time!
In 2005... oh wait it`s 2024...
Pit stops are no longer for re-fueling- now they will be for re-charging. You are right.
NASCAR goes electric an I’ll drop NASCAR like a hot potato . I’ve never said that before no matter how many ups downs I’ve been through with them
It's a damn Tesla lol
I guess the guys over at NHRA are scratching their heads now 🤣🤣🤣
Yea above 12 volts is to confusing for them. (Cybertruck is 48 volts)
Could they be used to rubber the track?
NOT gonna wait out a race for them to charge those cars to finish a race.
They wouldn't stop the race to charge. They would either find a way to keep the batteries charging as the car goes or they have another battery to put in
Zeeker quad motor 001 FR 1300hp.... The 800-volt architecture allows the Zeekr 001 FR to charge its 100kWh battery from 10% to 80% in just 15 minutes.
Then they wonder why attendance keeps declining. Cheese and rice, Batman!
One downside of H2 cars on the road in the US is that there are 54 H2 stations in the country. 53 of them are in California. And no, they're not saying that "every car has to be electrical by 2050". They're saying you won't be able to buy a _new_ ICE car in California. But you'll be able to buy a year old ICE vehicle.
The power grid up here in Connecticut already cant handle the demand when we turn on the air-conditioning. And now they want to add all of us trying to charge our vehicles. Ridiculous
I've maintained this stance since the first word of hybrid/electric power in NASCAR. The best way to implement an Electric car into the NASCAR fold is to bring back the old Dash Series. Call it the NASCAR eDash Series, run compact cars like this test vehicle in shorter length, 50-100 lap events on short tracks across the southeast and leave the current top series alone completely. The FIA has Formula E and Formula 1. They aren't replacing F1 with Formula E, they co-exist and cater different fans. So too should a NASCAR electric series along with the top 3 series of NASCAR...
Great take Kenny,without getting political.( but that is exactly what it is, POLITICAL!)
If NASCAR is actually serious,it will just continues the loss of more REAL fans and continue to strengthen ALL forms of dirt racing.
This will play perfectly for High Limit and the World of Outlaws popularity.
The only way I would watch a NASCAR EV race is if the Herminators voice did the sound effects 😂😂😂 👍🏻🏁.
cut that state off and move it on out,lol.i agree wth ya herminater.love the celtics pic on the back wall.bird parrish and mchale.best front court ever.
EV is gonna run for about 10-20 laps and charge for a couple of hours. My neighbor has one and can't take it out of town and his electric bill has gone up WAY more than he would have spent in gas.
Your neighbor is lying to you about the charging cost. I have a Tesla long range, it costs $11 to charge it up to full from less than 5% on my home charger.
The way NASCAR is going, I think maybe it’s going the wrong direction. It needs to go backwards rather than forward especially with electric vehicles. Carburetors, open headers, at least 750HP. That’s NASCAR and racing. No computers!
Your right, I think personally that the internal combustion engine is the best option for the majority of the country. Sure big high populated cities could run a lot of electric but everywhere else the combustion engine is the way or hybrid. Even hybrid doesn’t do us country folk much good. To many hills to make a difference lol. Just work on fuel efficiency more !
Your hilarious , I’m curious how quick the crew can change out the big bulky battery
I can’t wait for the General Electric vs Siemens rivalry to hit the track 🤣😅
Zeeker quad motor 001 FR 1300hp.... The 800-volt architecture allows the Zeekr 001 FR to charge its 100kWh battery from 10% to 80% in just 15 minutes.
You forgot Allen Bradly
Can't wait to see the pit stops with an EV! Will it do 500 miles on a charge? Or are the races reduced to 100 miles. Like I said before when JJ was crying the races are tooooooo long: Let's just do a warm up lap then qualifying lap and then an all out speed lap! The fastest time is the winner, three laps and we can go home.
They already reduced laps on a bunch of tracks. What about coke 600?
I'm quite interested. With all that weight of the batteries combined with the extra torque of an electric motor, the new cars should be able to run some pretty high gears allowing the cars to be able to reach some pretty fantastical speeds at tracks like Daytona. Imagine a car running 12 gears topping out at 275mph-300mph! For any daredevils willing to make the leap that is.
In 1971 I started telling my friends to never buy a car built after 1973. Before cats, before computers. Personally I even prefer manual crank windows. I have spent years working on newer cars and I always marvel at how easy it is to work on a 1966 Chevelle compared to working on a new Malibu.
Hey Herm , I agree totally , the " EV " is simply appeasing the carpet munchers and tree huggers ! NOTHING smells better than burnt race gas ! And the sounds that go with it ! Now , here's my thoughts on the car design , Remember the " COT " and that " Wing " and what happened when the car got around backwards on the big tracks ? Oopsie daisies flippo roonies , Yep it was a wing and what do wings do ? Create lift , but I'm sure NASCAR remembers that , so why even put it on those cars unless they are gonna just have it on tracks 1/2 mile or less ? Just make it a museum piece and leave it at that ! NASCAR fan since the 60's , born and raised in Daytona at Halifax . Sometimes change is not a good thing for the sport and it's evident here as well . Keep up the good work !
This is why it’s important to vote for smart people and not stupid people. Excuse me 🖐️ excuse me 🖐️, there are lots of stupid people running our country right now. It’s true.
I can take my family of 4 on a trip in a vehicle that has a sub 4 sec 0-60, 20 min stop every 2 hrs to stretch our legs and use the bathroom. Bonus that the vehicle is crazy quiet and drives itself half the time. I think having EV races would be an awesome way to push manufactures in their development but they have to be onboard, let them all have the freedom to build their own 900HP ev. Seeing 20 cars bolt out of the turns and come flying down the straight away with only wind noise would be pretty sweet to me.
Hopefully this gets all new fans and sponsors to the sport of oval racing. This sport could use much younger fans.