drag racing
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Drag racing is conventionally noisy. Very, very, very noisy. And while electric drag racing is slowly getting started--and a number of racers have been rudely surprised by the White Zombie, a 1972 Datsun converted to electric power, and lots of it--you wouldn't think of production electrics like the Nissan Leaf as quarter-mile material. Which is why Roman Mica's video, above, made us laugh. Mica is the videographer who created the Prius vs Prius hybrid drag race a couple of years ago, pitting a second-generation 2009 Prius against the newer, more powerful 2010 Prius. In this one, a 2012...
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Hybrid Truck Shows Ferrari What It's Missing: Electric Motors (Video)Last month Ferrari Boss Luca di Montezemelo reiterated that his firm would never bring an all-electric car to market, declaring that he just didn’t believe in them. Instead, he said, the Italian automaker would bring out a gasoline-electric hybrid drivetrain in a few years time. However...
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A Ten-Second Camaro Promotes Electric Drag Racing
The performance characteristics of electric motors make them ideal for drag racing, and one man is out to establish electric drag racing as a legitimate sport.
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Forumlec World Series ‘Electric Grand Prix’: Coming in 2012
You may not realize it, but the ultimate gas-guzzling motor racing sports in the world have been keeping collective eyes on the humble electric car, with a view to creating the ultimate electric race series. It started many years ago when unassuming cars like the 1972 “White Zombie”...
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Most Popular Prius Posts for October: Floor Mat Recall
It's the end of October, but we'll spare you the lame Halloween jokes and dive directly into the most popular posts of the month on AllAboutPrius.com. Just like the month before, only two of September's most popular posts reappeared: the 2010 Toyota Prius Reference Guide (by now the year's...
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Most Popular Posts for September: Prius Drag Races, Who Knew?
We're back on schedule with our favorite end-of-month activity, logging the most popular posts of the last month-or-so on AllAboutPrius.com. Autumn is here (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere), and we've got a fresh crop of favorites. We only held over two of August's most popular posts...
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Which is faster, the 2010 Toyota Prius or its predecessor, the 2004-2009 Prius? On paper, the 2010 should win. Its engine is larger (1.8 liters vs 1.5 liters) and more powerful (134 total horsepower vs 104 hp). It's even got a lower coefficient of drag, the very respectable 0.25. This morning we got a note from Roman Mica, a "National Road and Driver Examiner". He set out to answer that question by staging a drag race between a new red 2010 Prius and a silver 2009 model. Before you hit Play on the video below, we should say that the drag race was pretty amusing. Rather than the roaring of...
