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Have racing cars with huge electric motots >4000hp, powered the same way bumper cars are, but each car has a supercapacitor/battery onboard, that would allow the cars to run without being connected for about 30 seconds.
On the straight fast sections the road turns to tarmac and the electric pickups
retract.
On the corners and such, the road goes back to metal and the electric pickups connect to the floor and roof to recharge the car for the next fast section.
4000 Hp electric motor
https://www.bid-on-...or.htm#.VDbBudF0yHs
Seems to be more of a stationary unit... [RayfordSteele, Oct 09 2014]
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Alternatively, wasn't there some toy car system
where the cars went through motorized rollers that
fired them out at high enough speed to do a lap of
the course? |
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Presumably you have to put a kruggerand into the dashboard slot to start it going? And you get a christmas-tree sized stick of candy-floss to eat as you drive. |
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I'm not sure what a motot is but 4000 hp is probably a bit excessive. 3000 kW, at 480V 6250 amps are likely to need some heavy-gage wiring. |
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4000HP is more than most trains. |
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//480V 6250 amps are likely to need some heavy-gage
wiring// |
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That's easily solved. Up the voltage. Nothing like the threat
of a few hundred thousand Volts arcing through you to make
the taller people crouch down a bit. |
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//4000HP is more than most trains// |
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I always thought that I had a fairly good handle on how
powerful things were. Yet I was way off here. I always
assumed locomotives were in the >10,000 hp ballpark. How
do you get so little power out of something so big, burly and
noisy? |
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//How do you get so little power out of something so
big, burly and noisy?// |
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Send him into US politics? |
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//How do you get so little power out of something
so big, burly and noisy?// |
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If you have 10 400hp diesel pickup trucks running at
max HP (which they probably can't sustain very
long), I'm guessing it will be much louder and take
up more space than a locomotive. Also I'm guessing
the locomotive engine design is a bit more heavy
duty so it can output 4000hp continuously and last
much longer. |
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//How do you get so little power out of something so
big, burly and noisy?// |
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Ask the creators of the 1979 Cadillac Eldorado, who
managed to get only 140 horsepower out of a 500
cubic inch (!!) V8, the largest engine ever put in a
production car. Paired with a 3 speed automatic,
that was a winner. |
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