How fast are electric cars?
Terry A Woodman
Lumi...@home.com <luminous1> wrote in message
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> This may sound stupid but how fast do these electric cars go?
>
> I have been racing a gas HPI mini and think it is fairly quick. What kind
of
> motor
> is that comparable to? The only electric car I have is my TA03 with the
> <cough>
> stock <cough> 540 and a <cough> mechanical speed control, so we all know
> that is damn slowww. How much faster are the aftermarket motors, meaning
the
> "reasonable" ones? I know you can get a super hot 7 turn motor and put 15
> cells
> on the car to make it fly, but i want to race around for more than 5 mins
at
> a time...
>
> I'm going to get a Stampede with a Rooster ESC but it can only take motors
> up to
> 16 turns (I want the reverse and like the price) is that going to be a
fast
> enough
> motor or should i get somthing else?
>
> Also, any recomendations on what motor to get?
>
> -GEMiNI
>
>
>
Unknown
Hugh Jass
Terry A Woodman wrote in message ...
>Well my Ruster TRUCK goes 45mph on dirt
I seriously doubt that.
LONG JUMP1
cause rustlers are far from high tech machines that will go 45 i doubt it would
go 45 with a 6 or 7 turn motor heck my gas car doesnt even go that much man get
a life or atleast a radar gun that works
JOe
Jim Knepley
typo).
With a good, fast, mod motor I figure a touring sedan will do MAYBE 30.
1/12th scale pan cars can be faster, but I've never clocked a 6-cell mod.
Insane speed run cars close in on 100mph with brushless motors, drag cars
are something over that I think.
The ultra-fast stuff is so custom it's disgusting... what you get off the
shelf will probably do 20-25mph at best.
Jim
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>>--Jordo-->....@
.....i think i will believe it when i see it
jordo
Terry A Woodman
and using capacitors that put enough power to zap ya pretty good. Soon ill
have a page up showing how to make a capacitor pack that snaps onto your
motor. Me and one of my firends who works at radio shack developed it. Its
really kewl for getting fast starts.
Also i put non Traxxas gearing into when i speed tested it. Burn up the
motor (shity stock motor :)) Well i think that covers it. It DID do 45
m.p.h. just not very safely or wisely. But what fun will you have with out
burning out a motor every once and a while
?
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Jim Knepley
know I've seen video of the insane speed runs (that don't get up to 100mph
with any reliability, but still DARN fast), it can't be hard to find video
of some RC drag racing.
The insane stuff is done in bicycle velodromes; the fastest gate speed on
the 2nd laps wins. The last I heard 86mph would win because the faster
stuff couldn't make the turns, or their tires blew up on the back straight.
I'm less sure about the drag stuff, but I seem to remember open division
dragsters were doing sub 2 second scale quarters. Of course, they don't
need to turn as much.
Cheers,
Jim
Tom
> This may sound stupid but how fast do these electric cars go?
>
As a general rule, gas is faster on the straightaways, electric is faster
in the infield, and electric is more faster on the infield than gas is on
the straight, so electrics beat gas cars in races, unless the electric
dumps 'cuz the race is too long. Electric stock cars can easily beat gas
cars on many tracks, set up to run for 5 minutes.
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remember seeing a parma poster I think with the actual speed and specs.
Course, the thing was strapped with like 14 batteries. I thought the
insane runs were only going like 65 or 70 mph though.
Unknown
No more questions here....
-GEMiNI
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> This may sound stupid but how fast do these electric cars go?
>
Andy Kunz
> shelf will probably do 20-25mph at best.
You guys should try boats! 25 mph is a slow electric any more.
On my site I have several videos of our boats, and one of the heats
AVERAGES 45 MPH around the 1/10 mile oval.
Check it out!
http://www.rc-hydros.com/videos.html
Andy
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Kirk Lane
tires explode (capped foams)...one guy pushed it too hard and sent it into
the wall at 90+ after a tire disintigrated, shattering his car...
There's also that dual-motor TA03 a few months ago in RCCA...and I bet if
anyone was insane enough to take a 6 cell 12th scale and put a 6x1 in
it...*SHUDDER* Small pieces of metal, lexan, and fiberglass isn't meant to
go so fast... :)
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Lawrence Keys
> I agree. 45mph is highly unlikely for a Rustler (I hope that "Ruster" was a
> typo).
>
> With a good, fast, mod motor I figure a touring sedan will do MAYBE 30.
> 1/12th scale pan cars can be faster, but I've never clocked a 6-cell mod.
During last years Trinity Race at The Track in Maryland (carpeted, Ozite), they
had mounted at the end of the straight, one of those radar detectors that
displays a cars speed. The fastest cars on the straight (on road course) were 4
cell 1/12th modified. The fastest speed I saw was 37mph. The modified touring
cars were doing on average about 34mph, stock touring was between 22 and 25.
The 2000 Trinity Road Course Challenge (same track), will probably have faster
speeds since many of the modified 1/12th drivers are now racing 3000 cells with
9x1 motors!
High-C
flips is not enticing.
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High-C
Terry A Woodman <ter...@uswest.net> wrote in message
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> Well my Ruster TRUCK goes 45mph on dirt so i imagin the cars go much
faster
Donna LaValley
As i recall the record is about 230 mph but it used about 1000+
cells. I have a rc-12l that is rather out dated that will do 54 MPH
(clocked with radar) on a 6 cell 1700mah for about 5 minutes. I haven't
used the car for a long time but as I recall the motor is a speedworks
saphire, the esc is novak m5, carbon pan, 48 ptch gears, mirco servo and
mini revever. It's a fun car to drive. put a lesser motor in there and
it last much longer and brakes better for a rad corse.
ta ta
Seth
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On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Jim Knepley wrote:
> I think you can get it on video tape (one of those Associated RC videos). I
> know I've seen video of the insane speed runs (that don't get up to 100mph
> with any reliability, but still DARN fast), it can't be hard to find video
> of some RC drag racing.
>
> The insane stuff is done in bicycle velodromes; the fastest gate speed on
> the 2nd laps wins. The last I heard 86mph would win because the faster
> stuff couldn't make the turns, or their tires blew up on the back straight.
> I'm less sure about the drag stuff, but I seem to remember open division
> dragsters were doing sub 2 second scale quarters. Of course, they don't
> need to turn as much.
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
>
Tao3524
countershafts
all the way to the pullys. I have upgraded to a differ chassis.The car is
running on sanyo 2000s with a 9quad tc1 mod with a cyclone speed controll.The
car flies.
it makes me nervous driving it at full throttle
my tgx gas ic running the o.s.cv-.15 with
the cevec tuned pipe and a 2-speed and
the tao3 scoots write by it. I really dont understand it.
Andy Kunz
>
> The thought of having to go out to the water every time the boat stalls or
> flips is not enticing.
That's why you have a retrieve boat or a fishing pole. It's no big
deal.
I haven't flipped my Pocket Mechanic ever, and my Wild Fire only when
pushing it to find where it loses it. Took some doing, but I managed to
pull it off. I designed it to be super stable on the kind of water we
race in. We'll know exactly how well I did after the Nationals in 2
weeks (www.99nats.com).
You can see videos of the boats running on my site. I'm gearing up for
Christmas, so if you want one, order now!
Micah R Rogers
Average lap speed of 42 MPH 560 ft racing groove with 5.5 second lap times
A gas car held the lap record until the electric cars switched to 1700 mah
packs
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Chris Z. <cz...@ddminc.net> wrote in message
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> Sorry guys but whoever said electric is faster than gas is nuts. I
> have a hpi super rs4 with a bone stock os .12cv motor and it clocked
> at 46mph with stock 2 speed gears. ( taller gears are available ) I
> said clocked with a real radar gun, no guesses no B.S. real radar
> speed----46mph. I used to race electric and they are faster off the
> line but top speed def. goes to gas ( this excludes speaciality cars
> like the dragster that went 106)
>
>
> chris
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 16:14:47 -0700, Tom <tyou...@csc.UVic.CA> wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, it was written:
> >
> >> This may sound stupid but how fast do these electric cars go?
> >>
> >
Chris Z.
nozza
>Sorry guys but whoever said electric is faster than gas is nuts. I
>have a hpi super rs4 with a bone stock os .12cv motor and it clocked
>at 46mph with stock 2 speed gears. ( taller gears are available ) I
>said clocked with a real radar gun, no guesses no B.S. real radar
>speed----46mph. I used to race electric and they are faster off the
>line but top speed def. goes to gas ( this excludes speaciality cars
>like the dragster that went 106)
>
I've seen a nice electric vehicle when I aws in the US, that could do
about 46, it also weighed 180 lb's
Jonny Hodgson
> With a good, fast, mod motor I figure a touring sedan will do MAYBE 30.
> 1/12th scale pan cars can be faster, but I've never clocked a 6-cell mod.
There's a Guinness Record for a BRCA-legal, six-cell scale saloon
set by one Fred Wing at 50.something mph - with both a Tamiya and
another chassis. I believe he used an 8x4 in one and an 8x6 in
the other...
Jonny
Ringmeister-to-be: current best lap 9:39
Jonny Hodgson
> The insane stuff is done in bicycle velodromes; the fastest gate speed on
> the 2nd laps wins. The last I heard 86mph would win because the faster
> stuff couldn't make the turns, or their tires blew up on the back straight.
86 mph was the *average* lap speed record - they reckoned over
the ton down the straights to achieve that.
Can anyone confirm whether they've stopped their tyres exploding
yet, and beaten the 100 mph average?
Heremans
Jonny Hodgson wrote in message ...
>There's a Guinness Record for a BRCA-legal, six-cell scale saloon
>set by one Fred Wing at 50.something mph - with both a Tamiya and
>another chassis
A HPI RS4.
Elvo
Dean
Would this work:
Wire a large (like 1 farad) capacitor in parallel with the battery.
Then you could use a micro switch to put that current straight to a
motor...
That would allow an INCREDIBLE amount of amps to the motor when you
hit the switch.. IT would be cool to have the voltage higher too,
like 12 cells or so.
I guarantee that you could spin any tires you could put on that car.
-Dean
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> Well my Ruster TRUCK goes 45mph on dirt so i imagin the cars go much faster
> Lumi...@home.com <luminous1> wrote in message
> news:J_OQ3.12797$Ua7.3...@news2.rdc1.on.home.com...
> >
> of
> > motor
> > is that comparable to? The only electric car I have is my TA03 with the
> > <cough>
> > stock <cough> 540 and a <cough> mechanical speed control, so we all know
> > that is damn slowww. How much faster are the aftermarket motors, meaning
> the
> > "reasonable" ones? I know you can get a super hot 7 turn motor and put 15
> > cells
> > on the car to make it fly, but i want to race around for more than 5 mins
> at
> > a time...
> >
> > I'm going to get a Stampede with a Rooster ESC but it can only take motors
> > up to
> > 16 turns (I want the reverse and like the price) is that going to be a
> fast
> > enough
> > motor or should i get somthing else?
> >
> > Also, any recomendations on what motor to get?
> >
> > -GEMiNI
> >
> >
> >
I’d really like to get into this one on the ground floor because I have a strong feeling, based on the research I’ve done, that this one is going to take off shortly out of the gate. So I’d be really interested in hearing what others have to say about it.