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World’s Quickest Electric Car Is a ’72 Datsun, Does 0-60 in 1.8 Seconds! @ Discovery Channel.
Out on the dragstrip, the last vehicle you’d expect to be crushing BMWs and Ferraris is a 1972 Datsun. But John Wayland’s White Zombie is anything but ordinary. The electrified Datsun 1200 does 0-60 in a jaw-dropping 1.8 seconds.
The two-door coupe sports a dual-armature 9″ series-wound electric motor that was especially built for Wayland. Its battery pack is 192 lithium-polymer cells totaling to 355 Volts and 22.7 kWh of energy. The vehicle has a 90-mile range and it is even street legal. With over 500-plus horses, it’s no surprise the Zombie takes a quarter-mile in just ten seconds.
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OR, you can mount the same technology on a motorcycle and it would be called KillaCycle. It does zero to sixty in less than one second! On a drag strip, it does 170 miles per hour in 8 seconds. Is that enough electric speed for ya?
Comment by Dovepistil — August 26, 2011 @ 3:28 am
There was a slightly longer (but less video) writeup by Charles Murphy (of Design News) a few years back: http://www.designnews.com/document.asp?doc_id=228440
Comment by Chris Gammell — August 26, 2011 @ 8:49 am