Electric Cars as Fast as Ferraris

Ubergrunt writes "A Welsh engineering company has made a motor to be used on electric cars that will make them as fast as a Ferrari. "The motor is revolutionary in that it contains no bulky permanent magnets. Instead it relies on transmitting electric pulses across up to seven rotors, arranged in different phases. These are "fired up" in turn, much like the pistons of an internal combustion engine. There are no gears - the motor provides enough torque at one revolution per minute to put a vehicle into motion - and it spins at up to 2,500rpm. "Size for size, we can provide 400% more torque than any type of motor currently available," says managing director John Bryant."

Misread title...

[Toby The Economist]

"Electric Cars as Fast as Ferrets" ...and I'm thinking, what, tiny electric motors for burrowing robots?

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Toby

Obligatory bash quote

[AEton]

http://bash.org/?1988 [bash.org]

<kritical> matts: bikes go faster than cars...a bike at 60 mph is a lot faster than a car at 60 mph
<matts> kritical: um no...
<kritical> matts: um yes
<kritical> my sisters sport car at 60 mph goes faster than my dads explorer at 60 mph
<kritical> a bike at 60 mph will blow by a car at 60 mph

Welch?!

[Fross]

And I thought they'd made a motor out of grapes...

Re:Hmmm, won't be that fast when you add batteries

[Anonymous Coward]

Pedals my friend, pedals.

Re:Obligatory bash quote

[m4dm4n]

That particular one always reminds me of the folloing line from http://bash.org/?4281 [bash.org]

[SA]HatfulOfHollow: i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet

Re:Geography.

[nagora]

For those that don't know, Wales is a county (like a state or province) in England.

For those that really don't know, this is wrong and probably meant as a joke.

Wales and England are both countries within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Going into a Welsh pub and saying that Wales is a county in England is a good way to be introduced to the National Health System. Imagine telling a Texan that Texas is a county in California...

TWW

Re:Torque

[Cat_Byte]

Too much of an obstacle to the (American) general market. Most drivers in this country don't know what a clutch *is*, let alone how to work one.

An advantage to living in the red states. We not only can use one, we can fix it with bailing wire and duct tape!

Re:Torque

[Anonymous Coward]

I like your use of "We", followed by the implication that you can use wire to bail out a sinking boat.

Baling wire is used to make bales of hay, bailing wire indicates that you are a Yankee spy, sent to infiltrate the mighty Southron [answers.com] states.

Re:Batteries batteries

[JohnsonWax]

I found that Texas derives only 7% of its electricity from "green" sources (I'm including nuclear in that number), with the remaining coming from coal, natural gas, petroleum (61%), and "dual fired" (what's that? Is that "green?") (32%).

Dual-fired is a little bit green. Basically the power is derived from burning a mix of a traditional fossil-fuel such as oil or natural gas and convicted felons - rapists, multiple murders, that kind of thing. It's a cornerstone of Bush's energy plan.