On Nov 15, 2014, at 11:46 AM, EVDL Administrator via EV <[email protected]> wrote:
> As for muscle cars, they appeal to a totally different kind of buyer from > those who buy high-end European performance cars. The latter may indeed be > swayed to EVs by rational performance arguments. The former buy more with > their guts than their heads, and are going to be harder to sell on EVs, IMO. I think the sell will be easy as soon as the gassers start regularly getting smoked by the electrics. At that point, the testosterone poisoning will start to kick in, and nobody will want to be seen in a wimpy gasser that can't compete with the power of the electrics. Once "electric" has the same connotations as "supercharger," the deal is sealed. Of course, automakers could easily blow it, at least at first, by putting under-powered motors in muscle car EVs. But, if they take their inspiration from the Zombie 222 project, they won't be able to make electric muscle cars fast enough. Another big turning point will be when electrics reign supreme on the racetrack. We're already in that transition phase, with Eva's KillaJoule holding multiple records that have nothing to do with electricity. If she's the first to 400 mph -- and she well could be -- then you'll see all the other land speed racers very quickly transition to electric just to stay in the game. The same is soon going to happen in the drag racing world thanks to the NEDRA people, and there's already an electric Formula One circuit. NASCAR is likely to be the last holdout, but even they're going to have to give in eventually lest they get tarred with the "old and busted gasser" brush. You may be right about the truck scene -- and certainly with respect to the "coal rollers." But a lot of those are also work trucks that actually need the torque to haul heavy loads, and a lot of those have daily milages well within the range of an electric. Combine with dramatically reduced operating expenses, and an electric F-150 (or equivalent) makes an awful lot of sense for huge numbers of contractors and business fleets. And, again, testosterone poisoning will again start to kick in when the electric models laugh off loads that the gassers get bogged down with. I can easily imagine a coal roller blowing smoke on his way to the job site, driving the fleet electric truck with insanely heavy loads all day long...and dreaming up his new vehicle as an electric that spits sparks at passers-by rather than engulfs them in noxious fumes. b& -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 801 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141115/d1e78f55/attachment.pgp> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
