Photo: KleenSpeed
The thoughtfully-named all-electric racing car, the KleenSpeed EV-X11 is the brainchild of Timothy Collins, president, CEO and founder of the Silicon Valey-based company which builds it. Work on the car started over five years ago, and according to Collins, "The first car we developed we tested in secret at a racetrack in Nevada over four years ago [. . .] Then we bought another car and then we bought this car and we converted it. So each car had a different system and from each car we learned about the stresses. We do have another car on the drawing board."
The car is not really designed to fit into any racing class or category, but rather as a testbed for new technologies, which Timothy Collins hopes will, some day, make their way into road cars - "Once you develop a race car system, you can migrate those into the passenger cars [. . .] We actually have a passenger car coming out in October, not for sale, it's a test vehicle with a 150 mile battery pack in it and a completely new system. It incorporates all of the technology we have developed to date," he said.
The EV-X11 was recently clocked around the Sonoma Raceway as setting the fastest recorded time for an EV, completing one lap of the 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) track in 1 minute and 35.99 seconds. The time is comparable to those posted by similar conventionally-powered cars, despite having a 200 kg weight disadvantage over them - it sticks to within 3 to 4 seconds of those cars, so all in all it is a very promising piece of kit.
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The EV-X11 was recently clocked around the Sonoma Raceway as setting the fastest recorded time for an EV, completing one lap of the 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) track in 1 minute and 35.99 seconds. The time is comparable to those posted by similar conventionally-powered cars, despite having a 200 kg weight disadvantage over them - it sticks to within 3 to 4 seconds of those cars, so all in all it is a very promising piece of kit.
Story via pcworld.com
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