Sadly this E-Type Zero is not at all sold by Jaguar.
The video seems to imply that, but it is not so.
Converting a existing car to a electric driveline is less complicated as many people think, but you have to come up with ~$35,000 to get decent horsepower and range.
So taking a E-Type makes sense if you try to earn money on it. Who would put 35 grand into a Ford F150 or in my case a $3,000 Mercedes SL roadster?
The farm tractors I worked with in my time (not the monsters some use now) didn't have much horse power at all. They were just geared low. The oldest one I used was perhaps the Massey Ferguson 35, which had - yep, 35 hp. My brother in law just bought a new tractor: 45 hp.
What fun is it when you can't do wheelies and burnouts and have the roar that goes with that, how do you impress the ladies these days. The sex appeal is in the body design and not the motor. You have lost the feeling of power and prestige behind the wheel. You are just reduced to like any other electric conveyance, restrictive, just not practical in the long run.
When we are forced into owning an electric vehicle, or have nothing. I would be happy to embrace a green machine, as long as I didn't give my IC engine for a vehicle that gets it's energy from coal burning power plants.
The farm tractors I worked with in my time (not the monsters some use now) didn't have much horse power at all. They were just geared low. The oldest one I used was perhaps the Massey Ferguson 35, which had - yep, 35 hp. My brother in law just bought a new tractor: 45 hp.
Talking modern commercial farming here... John Deere 9560R -- about 550 HP. Farms need the big equipment these days to make any money.
This is the type of tractor that, before long, will be automated self-driving. Yet one more job lost to the robots.
What fun is it when you can't do wheelies and burnouts and have the roar that goes with that, how do you impress the ladies these days.
It's difficult to imagine any ladies getting impressed by burnouts and wheelies these days.. it'll have the opposite effect I think. Supposing there still are some left, I wouldn't be impressed by a lady who would get impressed by burnouts and wheelies
This is the type of tractor that, before long, will be automated self-driving. Yet one more job lost to the robots.
Haven't those been self-driving for a couple of decades already? I've seen those big machines plowing fields.. the driver doesn't do a thing, the tractor uses a very accurate satnav system to go forth and back, forth and back, row by row.. all perfect. As far as I can tell the robots have taken over farming years ago. Dairies too, and both we and the cows are better off, from what I've seen. The cows are milked more often (whenever they like), in a better and more hygienic way, with automatic samples of the milk every time, for testing.
It's difficult to imagine any ladies getting impressed by burnouts and wheelies these days.. it'll have the opposite effect I think. Supposing there still are some left, I wouldn't be impressed by a lady who would get impressed by burnouts and wheelies
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A sport more popular than ever, not sure if anybody would show up if these were electric.
@Gordon, if civilian GPS resolution is around 10 feet, how will these giant machines not make a mess of a field? Or do they have the higher ~3ft resolution.
It's difficult to imagine any ladies getting impressed by burnouts and wheelies these days.. it'll have the opposite effect I think. Supposing there still are some left, I wouldn't be impressed by a lady who would get impressed by burnouts and wheelies
A sport more popular than ever, not sure if anybody would show up if these were electric.
Have to agree with Tor. The race car audience is a very small (and shrinking) percentage of the population, and most of the women are in their teens and early twenties. An age group that is easily impressed by flashy loud toys.
Have to agree with Tor. The race car audience is a very small (and shrinking) percentage of the population, and most of the women are in their teens and early twenties. An age group that is easily impressed by flashy loud toys.
We quit going to the local drag strip because of large crowds, age thirty and under comprise at least half them.
Haven't those been self-driving for a couple of decades already? I've seen those big machines plowing fields..
If you go back far enough the concept dates from many decades ago for commercial use, using such things as a simple maypole setup (which is actually centuries old). You had to live with round fields, though. Since then, there have been a number of techniques, but not -- until fairly recently -- a major push to true fully autonomous farming. John Deere has probably been at it for the longest, but there have been many new entries within the last 5-7 years. It's still considered nascent technology. The world's first real all-robot farm opened earlier this year (in Japan), and it's not even a traditional farm.
Yes there are already robotic tractors, though use is not what I'd call widespread. Part of this is that farming is still traditionally a family business, often spanning multiple generations. So you see solutions like a human driver leading at least one automated tractor, or the training of specialized hands who serve as "safety operators," etc. There are also limits to the types of fields these types of systems can be used on.
I live in the rural fringes of my town, and up the road there are numerous farms, none of which are yet automated. Around here, the typical field is not flat or well prescribed (strawberries, squash, etc), or is random, such as avocado groves. All this is slowly changing, as the idea of the robotic farm becomes more accepted, with customized machinery to handle mores type of work.
For improved accuracy, they use lasers, differential GPS, and other technology. Unless it's a giant wheat field or something, I'm not sure it's a good idea to rely on commercial GPS alone.
This place has consistently grown for the 30 years we've lived around here. They had a fireworks display last year that lasted around an hour. Being around 15 miles from the track we had a show here. They're Night Under Fire features jet dragsters, funny cars and a jet semi truck that manages to set a billboard on fire. I'll say the sport doesn't do much to help global warming.
I did post that "The race car audience is a very small (and shrinking) percentage of the population", not that it is necessarily smaller than it used to be. Your example is a small town in northern Ontario, where a a weekend of racing would be a big draw. In southern Ontario there are many other attractions, and the number of tracks in the area as well as the number of spectators they draw have not increased much if at all from the time I raced gocarts and hobby stocks. The only exception to that is the Molson Indy in Toronto, which draws a big crowd, and a lot of that crowd comes as much for the other attractions as for the racing.
@Gordon, if civilian GPS resolution is around 10 feet, how will these giant machines not make a mess of a field? Or do they have the higher ~3ft resolution.
@Gordon, if civilian GPS resolution is around 10 feet, how will these giant machines not make a mess of a field? Or do they have the higher ~3ft resolution.
Thanks Keith, a great lesson I have to look into, behind the times. So this tech is available to a hobbyist? GPS for me was just a general location, not useful for obstacle avoidance.
My easy chair is uneasy knowing one of these autonomous things could level my house anytime.
The technology is just not there yet for battery cars. Maybe one day. It's like cel phones used to have NiCad's now the battery last all day
So honestly if there was a happy medium by sitting someplace for a while and letting the battery charge through solar panels, and then maybe getting 25 miles farther it would be great.
The race itself lasts for approximately 50 minutes with drivers making one mandatory pit stop to change cars with the two pit crew helping the driver change seat belts, and for safety reasons, there is a minimum required time for pit stops (which differs from track to track).
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The video seems to imply that, but it is not so.
Converting a existing car to a electric driveline is less complicated as many people think, but you have to come up with ~$35,000 to get decent horsepower and range.
So taking a E-Type makes sense if you try to earn money on it. Who would put 35 grand into a Ford F150 or in my case a $3,000 Mercedes SL roadster?
Mike
I hear Erco's latest plan is to convert his Corvair to all-electric, using this previously top-secret method.
They are works of art by themselves.
Oh, good. I'll still be able to drive my 1983 Mercedes 240D until it hits 1,000,000 miles! Mothers, get respirators for your kids when I'm in town!
-Phil
Dang! I had heard that SoCal is the place to buy cars. Especially if you're from say NorCal and are what they call an "out of market" customer.
What fun is it when you can't do wheelies and burnouts and have the roar that goes with that, how do you impress the ladies these days. The sex appeal is in the body design and not the motor. You have lost the feeling of power and prestige behind the wheel. You are just reduced to like any other electric conveyance, restrictive, just not practical in the long run.
When we are forced into owning an electric vehicle, or have nothing. I would be happy to embrace a green machine, as long as I didn't give my IC engine for a vehicle that gets it's energy from coal burning power plants.
Talking modern commercial farming here... John Deere 9560R -- about 550 HP. Farms need the big equipment these days to make any money.
This is the type of tractor that, before long, will be automated self-driving. Yet one more job lost to the robots.
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A sport more popular than ever, not sure if anybody would show up if these were electric.
Have to agree with Tor. The race car audience is a very small (and shrinking) percentage of the population, and most of the women are in their teens and early twenties. An age group that is easily impressed by flashy loud toys.
We quit going to the local drag strip because of large crowds, age thirty and under comprise at least half them.
If you go back far enough the concept dates from many decades ago for commercial use, using such things as a simple maypole setup (which is actually centuries old). You had to live with round fields, though. Since then, there have been a number of techniques, but not -- until fairly recently -- a major push to true fully autonomous farming. John Deere has probably been at it for the longest, but there have been many new entries within the last 5-7 years. It's still considered nascent technology. The world's first real all-robot farm opened earlier this year (in Japan), and it's not even a traditional farm.
Yes there are already robotic tractors, though use is not what I'd call widespread. Part of this is that farming is still traditionally a family business, often spanning multiple generations. So you see solutions like a human driver leading at least one automated tractor, or the training of specialized hands who serve as "safety operators," etc. There are also limits to the types of fields these types of systems can be used on.
I live in the rural fringes of my town, and up the road there are numerous farms, none of which are yet automated. Around here, the typical field is not flat or well prescribed (strawberries, squash, etc), or is random, such as avocado groves. All this is slowly changing, as the idea of the robotic farm becomes more accepted, with customized machinery to handle mores type of work.
For improved accuracy, they use lasers, differential GPS, and other technology. Unless it's a giant wheat field or something, I'm not sure it's a good idea to rely on commercial GPS alone.
http://www.elliotlakestandard.ca/2017/07/20/drag-race-draw-huge-crowd
http://www.summitmotorsportspark.com
I have taking a couple different videos of this, I'll have to post the better one some time. But here's one off the tube:
I did post that "The race car audience is a very small (and shrinking) percentage of the population", not that it is necessarily smaller than it used to be. Your example is a small town in northern Ontario, where a a weekend of racing would be a big draw. In southern Ontario there are many other attractions, and the number of tracks in the area as well as the number of spectators they draw have not increased much if at all from the time I raced gocarts and hobby stocks. The only exception to that is the Molson Indy in Toronto, which draws a big crowd, and a lot of that crowd comes as much for the other attractions as for the racing.
I thought it was talking about what electric cars can't do.
Take a look here for starters:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_GPS
http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1091975_2000-horsepower-electric-dragster-sets-new-drag-record-video
Dave, thanks for that link, didn't know Big Daddy Don Garlits was involved in such a thing, Love that sound, I'm really impressed at the performance.
Mike
Thanks Keith, a great lesson I have to look into, behind the times. So this tech is available to a hobbyist? GPS for me was just a general location, not useful for obstacle avoidance.
My easy chair is uneasy knowing one of these autonomous things could level my house anytime.
Mike
So honestly if there was a happy medium by sitting someplace for a while and letting the battery charge through solar panels, and then maybe getting 25 miles farther it would be great.
The race itself lasts for approximately 50 minutes with drivers making one mandatory pit stop to change cars with the two pit crew helping the driver change seat belts, and for safety reasons, there is a minimum required time for pit stops (which differs from track to track).