http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/74247852/countrys-fastest-electric-car-faces-competition NZ's fastest electric car faces competition November 25 2015 LUKE KIRKEBY
[image / LUKE KIRKEBY/ FAIRFAX NZ http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/8/7/h/3/y/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.187e0c.png/1448421670278.jpg Tom Short with his electric Datsun which is set to compete during EVolocity in Christchurch ] Tom Short with his electric Datsun which is set to compete during EVolocity in Christchurch. It's going to be a matter of catch him if you can when Taupo's Tom Short heads to Christchurch this weekend . Short, who owns the country's fastest electric car (it has a 14second time for the quarter mile) which won the New Zealand Drag Racing Association Street Car Championships in 2014, is set to race against electric cars built by technology and engineering students during the annual EVolocity event. The event will showcase electric vehicles and smart energy solutions at Mike Pero Motorsport Park on Saturday. The TSR Motors mechanic, who converted his yellow 1972 Datsun into an electric drag car, said despite the "endless" supply of knowledge and resources available to students he was confident with his chances of winning. "EVolocity put the challenge out to race against the university students to see if they can take my title and they are paying me to go down so they must be quite desperate to do it," he said. "I am quite confident with my changes although it is going to be tough because I don't know who I am racing against or what they are going to be doing to their cars." No doubt having six banks of batteries, which each have four times the amps available in a standard house, will go a long way to maintaining that confidence. "At the moment it is so damned fast that it actually makes your stomach hurt on acceleration," he said. Short, who converted a Subaru WRX in 2011 as his first electric car, said despite working on all types of cars he had a passion for electric. "We built the WRX to try and save the planet and last year decided to use everything we had and build an electric drag car," he said. "As far as winning the championships against all the V8s, it was because it was more consistent as they have gear changes and I don't, but it is still very fast and this year we are setting out to prove how fast." "I am just having fun with it and it is a good ride to be on." Short said he would like to thank his local sponsors for supporting him along the way. [© stuff.co.nz] ... http://evolocity.co.nz/ EVolocity Christchurch Sat Nov 28, 2015, 9:00 - 4:30, Mike Pero Motorsport Park, Christchurch. Excitement for all the family including: Electric vehicles taking on high performance ... https://www.facebook.com/evolocitynz/ For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-NZ-s-fastest-EV-faces-competition-during-EVolocity-in-Christchurch-tp4678909.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 Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
