Electric Dragster SHOCKS Driver! 

With that much high speed switching on the power system... I'm sure there is a good amount electromagnetic interference going on there. I'd love to see what it does to WiFi. So yeah, now they'll just complain about that too.

@@ramosel Which would make it not really a "Karen" thing to complain about, but more a general housing issue, you can't be building houses next to something like this... The fuel cell is going to be more dangerous than gas too, it's just asking for trouble near houses.

@@I_Crit_My_Pants Agree to a certain point. Ideally, the powers that be should have never approved housing or tourist business next to a track. But every politician wants that property tax revenue to spend on some boondoggle. But since they did they should have insisted on addendum at the time of sale that residents could not complain about pre-existing noise. We used to make a “F you b*tch” stop at the winery near Sears Point every time we got black flagged for noise.

Which is why they should never be listened to when it comes to anything.

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I can't read.

@@danstephens3344Neither can I.

I can see that being a benefit. Lots of places currently aren't allowed tracks thanks to noise limits, this should open it up for more places.

Wow, that's cool! Didn't notice it the first time

It’s the same with cars with real engines

They become oblate sphereoides - LoL!

Drag tires have a lower psi compaired to conventional tires. That explains why they rapidly expand during burnouts.

@@1wheeldrive751 and who was saying tha tis not? stop crying and go watch your beloved combustion videos, get out of here

"Big" retired it. His was DC, Huff's was AC..... DC can burn things up pretty fast... like controllers and motors, which Don had repeated troubles with.

@@Romans--bo7br 👍ha ha ha it was funny as big D was selling it as going green when it was a ploy to keep racing when he was banned from racing top fuel

@@pauldean8638 Don Garlits is 92 years old.

@@N2YTA dude still rocks even at 92

With all the problems,why would you buy one

They are not for everyone but it worked well for me. I drove it local, no trips, so the problems with charging stations was not an issue for me. I did all my charging at home. I saved about $100 per month fuel cost (electricity is cheaper for me than gasoline). I had the car 4 years with no oil changes (saved hundreds) and had no repair bills (no tune ups etc). I was able to trade it in and had a very low depreciation cost. I bought the car at just the right time and got a great deal (don't see deals like that anymore.) I would have kept it but the range was getting low because I bought it used and had it 4 years. The cost to replace the battery had more than doubled in those 4 years so I did not do it.@@johnnyporter7655

Hp is not acceleration HP iis how high the endgame is in velocity, EV have torq

What problems? ​@@johnnyporter7655

@lw216316.... Enjoy it!.....EV's Won't be around much longer. PS; It should be.. "gas vs electric" - vs NITRO!!

WHAT... I cant hear you tinnitus.

Earplugs.

1/4

A six second run equals somewhere around 1,000 to 1,500 kilowatts at the wheels.

@@albinklein7680 When was the last time you watched Back to the Future?

@@SW-zx3op not long ago actually...

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We will never know how fast that car ran. It could have been a 22 second run that they hyped up to make us all believe it was something else.

@@bashr52 The time itself is readable, it's 7.9s, also he mentioned final speed was 201.

@@joemama069 only 4.3 seconds and 140mph to go

@@OoogaBoog dude in video say, they did small adjust and went from 150 to 201, still a long road to go, but if this is actually true then maybe its not that far away

You can hear the lights humming. Boring.

@@cmo5459 - I can hear your mother humming... is that boring?

@@driverjamescopeland Only the way you describe it. But your mom tells me you were never clever, even as a child.

i worked the bleach box years ago, and that was the quietest bun out in history.

BOR-RING!

And watching slow ass cars... he ran a 7 at 201... top fuel just set a record at 341......

@@kden1271 I recall when I used to attend Fremont Drag strip in CA and saw the 200 mph broken there for the 1st time back in the 60's.

The noise, smells and speed is why we go race. This had none of those, except tire smoke only. Boring AF.

yep and they still didn't wake the audience

​@@kden1271 some might not know that Top fuel cars don't run the quarter mile. Just a 1000 feet. If a top fuel car had a full quarter mile it's top speed would be even higher.

Me, too!

I was hopeing😂😂😂😂😂😂

I think that's called "click bait"

So was the author....😮

Yep.. click bait for sure.

Have to agree, been to many drag meetings in my life, The smell of the fuel ,The sound of the motors, you can't beat it.Electric is 4 the environment that's it. From ( Aussie John).....

I think that is exactly what the noise was.

It's the tires sticking to the track prep, maybe a little wrinkle but not after the 60 ft

My Nissan Leaf sounds the same when I floor it. Hahah

fifteen percent slip

At least deaf people can feel vibration they would even find this shit boring😂

Hilarious comment 🤣😂😂

I was only listening to this video; what actually happened??

Drag cars are only loud because they have to be to make that kind of power and speed. You could put most of this drag cars components into a normal car and run mid to high 8s, like the Plaid does.

​@@Optimistprime.and still boring AF!

Let them bury their own sport 😂

Or a library

DRAG RACE! (Yeah!!!)

for handling the accidents directly ?

@@chargehanger I never considered what a safety advantage that would be. Thanks

@@kenneymitchell1186 Darwin disagrees with the concept of "Safety"

With your ELECTRIC trolling motor.......lol.

exactly

@@davidsod6800 A electric motor that has a entirely different purpose people watch for the entertainment not for the silence and boringness a lot of people go just to experience hearing a engine like that up close and feeling it you make the sport quiet and boring a lot of people will leave regardless of how its powered.

@@davidsod6800 An electric motor to hit the river?... For what exactly lol

@@keremysmith6866 so you are saying that the only interesting thing in a drag racing is the noise?

You can hear a mouse fart its so quiet

You do realize there's tons of street driven cars capable of well over 200. There's a street driven Mustang with a 275 drag radial that has run a 6.26 1/4 mile. It has a factory cast block and factory heads. It had a stock crank but deflection was too much past 2900 hp it would eat bearings. 302 cubic inches making 10 hp per cubic inch. Early this year, a top fuel dragster hit 300 mph in a 1/8th mile. Electric is just a novelty that won't last, it's too slow to race and will never range with loads like diesel. Internal combustion will continue.

Not bad, just got another 135mph to go.

​@@tailwatcher2500You people have been saying the same thing for years but last year the best selling model of car was an EV. ICE is going the way of the horse.

@drunkenhobo5039 and the top 3 best selling vehicles, Ford, Chevy, and Ram trucks, in that order. With the Ford alone selling nearly double that of the Model Y. You know what will never be replaced by EV? Trucks. It's basic physics. It currently takes over 400 kg of the market's best battery to match the stored energy of a single kilogram of diesel fuel. The biggest problem being a really inefficient engine from the factory made worse by an EPA that is extremely ignorant. There are diesel tuners that are able to make diesel engines have more power, gains in mileage, and produce less emissions, yet the EPA is fining them and threatening prison for removing the "emissions control devices." They can prove all of this with testing, and they don't have to fake the test like all of the auto manufacturers. An EV truck will never be as capable as a modified diesel. To understand how far EV actually is, I'll point the fastest EV dragster just hit 200 mph in a 1/4 mile, last year a top fuel dragster hit 300 mph in 1/8th mile.

You beat me to the comment.😁

It kinda does doesn't it! Reminds me of back when.....when I imagined designing electric bikes back 50 years ago, but having no idea how they'd be powered. Then too thinking if slot cars were only life size and how fast they might go.....now we have the Tesla. Who'd thunk it?LOL

I walked our tar streets in the summertime in the south as a child, thats what our bare feet sounded sticking to the street as we walked lol! For real though!🤠👍

I knew they were always silent but I never put it into perspective just how it goes from zero to everything lol. I've had RCs cars that went 70-80mph but they always had a fan lol

What? This EV drsgster went so flow I almost got bored and fell asleep . 200 mph in ghe quarter is very slow by 1960's standards, much less today. EVs eill NEVER be able to compete with Nitromethane top fuel ICE

Golf.

Watching grass grow in the desert.

I'm upset. Too much noise and smoke. Can't we just run a simulation of this and watch it in VR?

@@KC9UDX 100% someone would still comment 'this is the future of racing, so exciting and impressive'

​@@origaminefretami3480definitely. And those people never witnessed a Nitro Dragster in person

There's a reason nobody delivered moonshine in an EV.

It does have a little appeal left don't it ,that should do it the rest of the way in

​@@derekheim8172because they didn't exist yet?

@@scrambledmandible Sure they did, electric cars go back to the 19th century. An EV held the speed record for cars until 1900. Combustion vehicles didn't sail by them until the electric starter was invented. Another advantage to a combustion vehicle hauling moonshine is that it can be used as fuel if need be!

Don't worry. EVs will NEVER be as quick and fast at drag race strips as Top fuel ICE dragsters are. Phydics will not allow it. Street cars, yes, EVs are quick in that category. NOT against all out race cars though.

God bless Brittney and her awesome Dad !

Impossible. The EV freaks won't tell you that.

Excellent point. 🔥

A container filled with water isn't very complicyted to put somewhere.

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@@diymicha2water conducts electricity. Just thought you’d like to know.

the funny thing is. the way you launch in dragracing is that you are already revved up to the best part of the engines powerband aka youre instantly getting all the torque the engine can provide as soon as you release the clutch. so the whole ”instant torque” of EVs is irrelevant. its all how you get that power down to the ground. most of the videos where a tesla races against a muscle car and wins. its a 4wheel drive car aka two cars that are never in the same class. if the engines have the same hp and torque adn both the EV and the ICE car acn put that power down it will be a pretty even fight. so… the electric motor to compete with 10000hp fire breathing nitro engine is going to have to be pretty stout XD

Probably a bunch of electricians.

@@hyacinthbucket3803nahhh, most electricians are blue collar workers and would prefer something more exciting.

Since they only seem to be concerned with the speed at the big end, not the ET I would assume it's 1/4 mile.

Yep , its street car fast lol .

4.4 seconds but ok

With electricity, it's just a matter of matching current and voltage. Keep in mind that in this video, we're not looking at the latest and greatest battery and motor tech here. This is one hobbyist's dream. If corporate and sponsorship were behind this (like any ICE race today), it would progress much faster.

​@@pavanbiliyarwhy would they sponsor something that nobody is going to watch

Maybe they'll pipe an old player piano through the PA.

Lol 😂

i mean that does sound exciting XD

That had me doubled over. Yew bewdy!

Totally agree, I was at the first TT Zero on the IOM an that was just as exciting (NOT) no sound, no smell an half off them didn’t have enough juice to do one lap. 🥱🥱🥱🥱

….and the nitro exhaust fumes burning your eyes! 😁. Top Fuel all the way.

But use 10,000 KWH per run every drag strip will need a nuclear reactor

THEN DRAG RACING HAS NO FUTURE , I WOULD NOT SPEND MONEY TO WATCH AN ELECRIC DRILL LOL

There is only one company in the world that can make multiphasic motors and solid-state calcium batteries, so it will be the end of competition ! That is why the GM Delphi rail only ran for exhibition!

The future of drag racing? God, I sure hope that isn't the case. Drag racing will lose at least one fan for certain.

@@harrypalmer291 call it the women’s basketball of drag racing

Probably shorter than the engine rebuild they normally need to do every run

@@NootNooot: Really? It would seem to take quite a while with all of the amps that the machine is pulling, but, who knows, maybe they have spare batteries that are charged and ready to swap out!

I think they are more capacitor type batteries so the charge time is very very short then.

I bet you can recharge those batteries faster than you can rebuild an engine.

​@top fuel crews do it in less than an hour, they go faster too mikem.8487

Nah , not that exciting :) .

If I ran a track that's exactly what I'd do on EV night. Crank the metal constantly and play engine noises when they launch.

It takes a few minutes actually

if it's hitting 400 500 mph , thats the only way it would draw a crowd

I’m not convinced crowds would show up even for higher speeds. If racing goes all electric, I think it will be the death of racing.

Exactly. The absolute best part of seeing an NHRA race is FEELING the cars literally shake you to your core. There is nothing else on earth like it. I wouldn't walk across the street to see this for free.

@@twalker294 Amen bro.

@@twalker294 same. Electric motors are good at devices, sedans, city cars. Not in racing or sportscars and shit

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