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    Electric car speed record attempt

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    Look at the fans on that thing, should have gone for phase-change really.
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    Cool. 2x37KW is only about 120bhp though, so it must be pretty damned aerodynamic....

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    they got a motorless aero plane to travel faster than the speed of sound iirc

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    how'd you work that out rave?? i recon it'd have a huge amount of torque to get it going..
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    Quote Originally Posted by KeZZeR
    they got a motorless aero plane to travel faster than the speed of sound iirc
    so its pretty much a glider then. faster than sound. jeez. scary stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 5lab
    how'd you work that out rave?? i recon it'd have a huge amount of torque to get it going..
    Torque is not the same thing as power. Power is in fact torque times engine speed. Electric motors can indeed generate enormous torque at low speeds, but it doesn't mean that they can sustain that torque at higher speeds to give a high power output.

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    Air Conditioned powered car! That's quite a load of fannage.

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