"Big Daddy" Don Garlits is a legend in drag racing http://green.autoblog.com/2013/01/16/don-garlits-drives-electric-swamp-rat-37-in-preparation-of-reco/ [image] Don Garlits drives electric Swamp Rat #37 in preparation of record attempt By Domenick Yoney Jan 16 2013
[image http://www.blogcdn.com/green.autoblog.com/media/2013/01/swamp-rat-37-shakedown-628.jpg lawless ev racing video http://youtube.com/watch?v=OySTN8YmU_A SW-37 Blast #1 lawlessind Dec 18, 2012 ] "Big Daddy" Don Garlits is a legend in drag racing. Over the decades he's set a lot of records, and was the first to break hit 200 miles per hour in the quarter-mile (and the eighth-mile, for that matter). Now, at the tender age of 81, he's getting ready to do it again. This time, in an electric dragster. Lawless EV Racing, the guys behind the world's quickest electric motorcycle, have put together Swamp Rat #37 for Mr Garlits with the express purpose of warping down the track in six seconds at speeds in excess of 200 mph.The elongated machine depends on three Zilla controllers to send 1500 kW – the equivalent of 2012 horsepower – from the custom High Tech Systems battery pack to the General Electric series DC motor. The project arose after Big Daddy's previous electric dragster experience – some match races in cars with golf cart-like performance – had left him with the impression that EVs are slow. With a little preliminary testing under his belt, Garlits now knows this is not the case. Scroll on down for video of one test run, along with footage of that match race that provided the impetus for this project. You can see other, slightly clearer, clips here and here. Though the wick wasn't turned up all the way and the vehicle was still incomplete, this latest Swamp Rat seemed to tear up the first 60 feet of asphalt faster than any EV that's come before it. We are looking to seeing the what this latest Swamp Rat will do once it's ready to play for keepsies. [© 2013 AOL All rights reserved] For all EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date Here are today's archive-only EV posts: EVLN: Angkor EV wants to reduce Asian oil reliance r:300km ts:60kph EVLN: Indian PM Asks Auto Industry to Adopt Electric Technology Fast EVLN: Unhappy warm-climate Leaf-owners > Nissan's lack of a fix EVLN: Strange half-homemade China nEV must corner like a racecar! + EVLN: Future Engineers turning old clunkers into racing EVs {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Big-Daddy-s-Swamp-Rat-37-EV-Racer-built-by-Lawless-tp4660694.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
