Hi Bill etc, I always have a *blast* at EV racing events & meeting the folk's on the evlist I haven't seen in awhile. I think the next one I'll go to is the Pike's Peak Hill Climb where I used to camp out at mile marker 9 (good vantage point) when I lived in Co Spgs. And of course the Hagerstown Md east coast EV NEDRA race. Have a renewable energy day, Mark in Roanoke, VA www.REEVA.info community service RE & EV's Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:17:15 -0700 From: Bill Dube <[email protected]> To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [EVDL] EVLN: Electric car racing helps mature and develop new technologies Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Tire technology is just one example of how racing innovation serves the general motoring public. Radial ply tires is one of many examples of racing innovation contributing to advances used in every day automobiles in this one technological area. There are countless other examples. I will say that modern day racing has become specialized enough that the contributions to technology advancement (for every day autos) is minimal. However, EV racing is young enough that it is not that way, yet. Future innovation in racing depends how the EV racing rules are written. >>>> Pit stops <<< Modern pit stops are on the order of seconds. Typically, they are in the range of 3 to 4 seconds. (2.31 seconds is the record in Formula one.) Refueling pit stops can take up to 12 seconds. In Formula E, they are going to simply change cars. The driver gets out and makes a dash to a freshly charged car. Bill D -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130301/5a05e3ca/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ 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)
