EVs are crushing gas records in pike's peak practices!

[neptronix]

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/06/26/2015-pikes-peak-hill-climb-practice-day-4

At the top of the course, Rhys Millen continued to best all comers with the Latvian megawatt electric racer from Drive eO, turning in an impressive 2:22.20 time. Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima was second (2:34.19) in his Rimac-powered Monster Sport E-Runner, a strong 17-plus seconds quicker than the fire-spitting Open Attack1 Porsche of Jeff Zwart.

2:22 is mind blowing, considering that the best record time for a 4 wheeled vehicle last year was 9:05 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_Auto_Concept#Pikes_Peak )

I think it's pretty safe to say that electric will win the race this year and continue to dominate!

Here are the 2014 results, by the way:
http://www.ppihc.com/wp-content/uploads/2014-Race-Winners-By-Year.pdf

Seems pretty certain that an electric vehicle will win the 4 wheel category this year

 

[neptronix]

Oops, i missed something that the article didn't mention.

This was a time for a section of the track.
This car would have still beat the gassers though:

http://livetiming.net/ppihc/

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/06/25/2015-pikes-peak-practice-day-3-photos/

 

[neptronix]

Darn, electric didn't particularly win this year, but it did get second place:

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/06/28/2015-pikes-peak-hill-climb-results/

 

[speedmd]

Rhys won it in the electric EO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMjsAMlXGBI&feature=youtu.be New record and would have crushed the old record if he did not loose the rear engine before the halfway mark.

 

[neptronix]

Oh, that sucks beyond belief!!!

 

[sk8norcal]

Sweet! I believe that would make the DriveEO the 4th fastest car in Pike Peak history.
(Rhys claims the car is capable of 8:38 in the video!! )

Sebastien Loeb 8:13.878 (Peugeot, gas)
Rhys Millen 9:02.192 (Hyundai, gas)
Romain Dumas 9:05.801 (Norma, gas)
Rhys Millen 9:07.222 (DriveEO, electric)
Greg Tracy 9:08.188 (Mitsubishi, electric)

[youtube]nMjsAMlXGBI[/youtube]

at 9:30 (close up shots without body fairing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kGV8O0NDRg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KaDwA-n8GY

 

[sk8norcal]

Tajima, Rimac

[youtube]RFlfcXMFuB8[/youtube]

 

[neptronix]

^-- that's awesome! i love the giant RC motor sound that thing makes!! obviously spinning into the 10,000's

 

[sk8norcal]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk5N4rd1auc

[youtube]Xvoy7RFjy1s[/youtube]

 

[speedmd]

When watching the video, I think Rhys is being conservative in his estimates of 8:30s. The car looks like it pulls completely differently at the bottom. Spooky fast. If he could have a few runs at it with both motors running full time, I think Loebs' record would be in peril. Interested to hear what went wrong.