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Electric cars are often seen by the general public as slow and unsuitable for motorsport events like drag racing.
Ron Adamowicz is out to change that perception, and his electric-powered 1981 Chevrolet Camaro serves as a prime example of what’s possible with some ingenuity, a few electric motors and a very large battery pack … More
The world is an oddly serene place when you’re streaking across the salt at 400 mph.
You’ve wrestled your car, if that term applies to a 2,000-horsepower missile, into something approaching submission. The skull-rattling, vision-blurring vibration smoothed out somewhere around 300 mph, so you can see clearly again. It’s still a rough ride — you are moving 586 feet per second, after all — and noisy as hell. But, like the eye of a storm, it’s eerily calm.
“It’s very loud, but it’s very quiet because you’re tuned in,â€Â   … Pictures and more
Bonneville Speed Week 2010: THE RUN, Feat. the Spectre Performance SpeedLiner