Watch Additional Footage From The GXE Corvette All-Electric Land Speed Record: Video
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The public may know all about Tesla and its ludicrous mode, but the automaker has nothing on Genovation cars and its GXE Corvette.
The C6 Corvette Z06 has had its 7.0-liter LS7 V8 engine plucked from the hood and instead features full battery power. It may sound wimpy at first, but the GXE Corvette is far from it.
Genovation Cars set out to topple the street-legal, all-electric production car land speed record, and it certainly did so. The GXE Corvette was able to clock 205.6 mph, besting its own record, too.
Inside EVs has additional videos of the record-smashing run you can peruse, but we’ve attached the main video for your viewing pleasure right up above. Or, click here for a mini documentary on the company and its achievements thus far.
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What is the point in making an electric car? As Hillary likes to say, “What difference does it make?” These are the facts:
Major energy sources and percent share of total U.S. electricity generation in 2015:
Coal = 33%
Natural gas = 33%
Nuclear = 20%
Hydropower = 6%
Other renewables = 7%
Biomass = 1.6%
Geothermal = 0.4%
Solar = 0.6%
Wind = 4.7%
Petroleum = 1%
Other gases = <1%
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3
As evidenced by the facts above, if this is to somehow save the planet, it's nothing but empty, feel-good symbolism that doesn't change anything because all this does is transfer the burning of fossil fuels from the car to the power plant that generates the electricity. It is a HUGE waste of money.
FIRST, develop an electrical source (if we are going to stick with only electric cars for now) that is INDEPENDENT from the plug in the wall, THEN, develop an electric car that uses it. Otherwise, this is all just blowing in the wind.
“FIRST, develop an electrical source (if we are going to stick with only electric cars for now) that is INDEPENDENT from the plug in the wall, THEN, develop an electric car that uses it.”
Wrong. The infrastructure is already in place. There’s no need for an independent electrical source and grid dedicated solely for electric cars. For the grid, that’s just a needlessly redundant cost to add to a building, and the source is just something that taxpayers would be on the hook for.
I can’t believe you actually think EV’s need their own grid and source to become publicly acceptable.
What needs to change is the VECTOR from which electricity is produced. The more sustainable, the better. Coal is already on a decline, and I’m fairly certain you Americans can make your own renewable electricity, as long as investors are looking long term instead of short.
Furthermore, you need to know which of the above sources of electricity are actually carbon neutral. Of that list, only coal, petroleum, and natural gas emit hydrocarbons.
Biomass does too, but it was already surface-level carbon meaning its carbon exchange was already counted when considering the amount of carbon in the atmosphere. Burn wood > carbon goes into the atmosphere > plant life absorbs CO2 amd CO > sapping grows into a tree > tree is harvested and burned > repeat.
And before you crow about nuclear power, it’s a closed system anyway, and there isn’t any CO2 or CO emitted. The byproducts there are much heavier than CO2 and CO, and those that enter the atmosphere are the result of plant catastrophes (Fukushima and Chernobyl).
So of that list, 32% of electricity burned in the US is clean. Good job America. You’re almost half way to a completely sustainable electrical production grid. No need to build a separate electrical grid just for EV’s, and certainly not one that emits more CO2 and CO.
Since 2005, the coal consumption of the U.S has dropped 45%, so the enrgy we use in our homes and in electric cars is much cleaner. I bet K Hill never considers that his home is less efficient that any electric car, so he gets more blame that the cars do whe he uses the same electricity!
K Hill, do you get gasoline piped to your home? Does the gasoline flow directly from the oil derreck to your car’s tank? No?? Because there is an infrastructure that uses energy to get the oil out, process , transport, and store it, then distribute to every station and pump it to your tank . And most of that energy is electricity from the same “dirty” sources you typed!
For every gallon of gasoline that reaches your tank, the equivalent of its energy content was spent making it. Then over 60% of that energy is lost as heat (try to run your gas car with no coolent! I dare you!).
Modern thermoelectric power genrators are over 85% efficient making that electricity which travels at the speed of light into every outlet that evry home has, then enters through the plug into the battery. An electric car uses this energy to move its wheells with little noise. Over 95% of that energy moves the wheels, the other 5% is lost as heat.
Therefore, for every joule or watt-second of energy that the oil infrastructure uses to fuel one car can power up dozens of electric cars. That is why the same oil producers don’t want electric cars on the roads!
While i think this cool, i’m with K Hill; whats the point? The only real drive for reducing carbon emmissions and having “clean vehicles” is government mandates. The Engineers themselves are all impressive people and are chasing a noble cause, but in the end it’s all feel good nonsense. Hopefully theres alot of money to be made, or at the very least they make a break through on the real isssue with electric cars – range deficiency.
Once the range issues are sorted out, I garuantee electric propulsion will go mainstream, because frankly; the public could care less what makes their car go.
As to the poor Vette in the vid, we all know that run to 200 would have sounded and been far more exciting to watch with eight coffee can sized pistons bellowing into the horizon.
Did they drive to the track, do the runs, and then drive it back to the shop??
If not, they still need to do the above, othewise it is not yet a plausible alternative street car.