Comments on: Likelihood Of Electric Cars In NASCAR Increasing

By: Tony Cars

Tony Cars — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:03:44 +0000

It’s hard to believe that electric cars have come so far as to consider them for NASCAR. But maybe soon we will have to believe it. If that happens, it will spell the end of liquid fuel vehicles.

By: James

James — Tue, 15 May 2012 08:04:57 +0000

Craze of electric cars are growing day by day and it is good for the nature and it also reduces air pollution. I am in favour of Electric vehicles.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 04:19:05 +0000

I think eliminating refueling at even the shorter distances that Nationwide races would be too problematic to be possible. The only data I could find for fuel mileage was for Cup cars at ~5mpg. With the longer distances in Nationwide reaching 300 miles, that means a minimum fuel load of 60 gallons. That’s over three times the current capacity of 18 gallons. Not only does this increase the amount of highly-flammable material that could ignite, 60 gallons of gasoline weighs around 370lbs. The handling dynamics of the car would be drastically altered as over 10% of its weight is burned off in the course of a race.

By: Michael J Smith

Michael J Smith — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:29:32 +0000

Thanks for commenting, Mike.

My guess is that if NASCAR ever did switch, they would have pit stops for tires, but they would also swap out batteries. The time to swap a battery would need to be about the same time it takes to put on two tires. That said, it wouldn’t be very exciting, I don’t think.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:53:51 +0000

It would be a long race at 500 miles if they charged at 110 volts. How about nationwide series eliminating fueling for the entire distance, pick some fuel tank size and say figure out the rest on your own. Would be kind of cool

By: Prof pi (Jeff Thompson)

Prof pi (Jeff Thompson) — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:43:44 +0000

Auto racing was once the proving ground and rolling laboratory for the engineers and designers of car companies.
Initially, 100 years ago, the challenges were speed and reliability, 500 miles was an astonishingly long race. Both speed and endurance have now been solved.
Today, a 100 years later, the challenge is fuel consumption. For every $2 increase in the price of oil we spend enough extra money to put engineers to teach math and science in one grade level in all the schools in the country. Since the late 1990′s we’ve spent enough extra money to put engineers in all the schools in the US to teach all the math and science courses.
The cost of energy and its availability will define the future of the US, and since the year 2000 that future is rather bleak.

By: Conor

Conor — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:01:45 +0000

Simply put, I would NEVER watch another race again.