Electric RCR's

Fran Hall RCR · 01-07-08, 09:34 PM

Sorry its a PDF. file ...but it should work...

Howard Jones · 01-07-08, 10:30 PM

Does that car in the picture have the downforce (track) package on it? Front splitter, sill skirts, etc.

Russ · 01-07-08, 10:52 PM

That silver car would be no good for me Fran, i get car sick going backwards!!

. ..But electric is the future i'm afraid to say . . .that is unless you can work some nuclear fission into a superlite?

Fran Hall RCR · 01-07-08, 10:52 PM

Howard,

that is the street package...the track package has a similar external profile but is lower to the ground by approx 45mm...

Big-Foot · 01-07-08, 11:13 PM

Since when is the SuperLight Coupe a "Replica" ???

Nice copy though Fran - It's going to propel RCR to a new level...

Fran Hall RCR · 01-07-08, 11:25 PM

Journalists...cant believe anything they say...

Bill D · 01-08-08, 12:15 AM

I want a Lola T70E (Electric)

Big-Foot · 01-08-08, 08:22 AM

Bill wants to drive in the HOV lane with all the hybrids and car-pools...

Fran - If you're selling turn-keys doesn't that change your status from a parts supplier to an automobile mfgr? I know that Factory Five will not sell a new turn-key for that very reason...

Ian Anderson · 01-08-08, 09:42 AM

Fran

A quick question

In the Pdf it looks like an engine in the normal location with presumably a gearbox and dif somewhere.

Why not mount the electric motors in the hubs and save having to wast the energy to turn the gears?

Suddenly 4 wheel drive electric car - each motor does not have to be so "beefy" and get the same power (or more power) to the ground

Ian

Big-Foot · 01-08-08, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by IanAnderson

Fran

A quick question

In the Pdf it looks like an engine in the normal location with presumably a gearbox and dif somewhere.

Why not mount the electric motors in the hubs and save having to wast the energy to turn the gears?

Suddenly 4 wheel drive electric car - each motor does not have to be so "beefy" and get the same power (or more power) to the ground

Ian

Loss of one motor may mean you make an immediate turn... However, there are hydrostatic drive systems like that but they're quite heavy.. I imagine with enough circuitry and logic you could make a 4wd electric car work...

Fran Hall RCR · 01-08-08, 10:12 AM

Randy....

Like I said cant believe journo's.....we will not be supplying batteries so the packages are not complete...
Independent hub drive is expensive...and more complex....thats all well and good if your are an OEM and spreading the cost over thousands of units...no such luck here I am afraid...

David Marx · 01-08-08, 12:02 PM

Where do they get the $5.00/charge figure? It would seem to me that your couldn't charge a car with less energy than it is going to expend. Everything I have read on electric indicates that we will burn more fossil fuel and create more emissions to generate the electric for the car than the car would consume and subsequently emit into the environment. If we could convert to nuclear energy across the board, this would have more promise. (I'm in the NIMBY camp here, but otherwise for nuclear.

). I think we can go a lot further with fuel efficiency and further development of the Hybrid. Besides, who wants a silent GT40?

Jac Mac · 01-08-08, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Fadiboy

Besides, who wants a silent GT40?

I am sure Fran will have a Tape or CD of a GT40 at full noise in the list of options so you can cruise the boulevards at 20mph sounding like 200mph, probably come with solar panel so that your 20mph cruise range does not suffer. Aero drag from the panel @ 20mph should not be factor!

Sorry Fran, I just cannot come to terms with all this battery s***! Everything with batteries around here always seems to be U.S.

Allen English · 08-08-08, 02:43 AM

Fran - Any updates on this?

Steve W · 09-10-08, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Fadiboy

... Everything I have read on electric indicates that we will burn more fossil fuel and create more emissions to generate the electricity for the car than the car would consume and subsequently emit into the environment. ... Besides, who wants a silent GT40?

Detailed audits show ( In Australia with our standard coal fired plants) that the emissions are less. And the few I know who have done a conversion use greenpower options. So, few if any emissions.

And - the silent car IS a problem where they have been used a bit - it is noted that people and dogs don't hear them - so you need a recorded noise, and I understand one of the most popular is the clippety clop of horse hooves.
( I think I'd get something from here: Vintage V12s, Inc. :: Home ).

And here was me thinking it would be heretical to suggest an electric GT40!!

Congrats Fran for being ahead of the game here!

Craig White · 09-10-08, 07:29 PM

The noise factor is certainly something I have thought about. Horse hoove sound is a novel idea.

Looking at bringing some electric RCR's down under soon as we have had a lot of interest in them.