Faraday has challenged Tesla with a 0-60 in 2.39 seconds super car
By JIM STONE
Chinese car maker Faraday is giving Tesla a run for its money. Or maybe not. Or maybe. Who knows. What is certainly true? You can get a 10 horsepower electric motor to deliver 100 horsepower until it burns out. Unlike a gasoline engine, which is restricted in it's output by total fuel and air through it, which is a fixed set value that cannot be exceeded no matter how much you turbo charge it, electric motors have no such limits and will deliver almost anything you ask them to until they get hot and burn out.
FACT: Tesla's motor technology uses a specially designed liquid cooled motor to get something small enough to be put in a car and make it go like crazy while being reliable and not burning out without the impressive weight an electric motor with that much performance would normally have . That was no small feat of engineering. Claiming a super hyped out 0-60 time will not mean anything if it will burn out with the same acceleration all the way up to 120. Or burn out in stop/start traffic. A Tesla will do it's 0-60 magic over and over and over again and not overheat.
My take on this is that maybe China has something that can actually compete with Tesla in the real world, but from what I have seen in other Chinese electrical stuff I'd have to say probably not. Wayne, (who has the book It's NOT the LAW advertised at the top of this page) had an American made Rotogen power supply to provide super stable operation of his gun shop machining equipment (before the BATF screwed him over with a raid) and it was MASSIVE for its output rating and the main rotating unit (which is called a motor generator) weighed over 600 pounds. I saw it myself and photographed it and put it on Ebay after the BATF destroyed him. It was made in America. And I can guarantee it would deliver it's rating day and night, hostile heat to arctic freeze until hell froze over. At that time, I also saw the cheap Chinese units that were rated the same at 1/4 the price, and they were absolute toys.
With that as a reference, I'd have to say I'll wait and see on this new Chinese car, maybe it will deliver as promised and maybe maybe it will be good enough to be an every day work car like the Tesla is, but I sure would not bet on it until it really proved itself.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-04/gone-in-2-39-seconds-faraday-claims-tesla-beating-electric-car
By JIM STONE
Chinese car maker Faraday is giving Tesla a run for its money. Or maybe not. Or maybe. Who knows. What is certainly true? You can get a 10 horsepower electric motor to deliver 100 horsepower until it burns out. Unlike a gasoline engine, which is restricted in it's output by total fuel and air through it, which is a fixed set value that cannot be exceeded no matter how much you turbo charge it, electric motors have no such limits and will deliver almost anything you ask them to until they get hot and burn out.
FACT: Tesla's motor technology uses a specially designed liquid cooled motor to get something small enough to be put in a car and make it go like crazy while being reliable and not burning out without the impressive weight an electric motor with that much performance would normally have . That was no small feat of engineering. Claiming a super hyped out 0-60 time will not mean anything if it will burn out with the same acceleration all the way up to 120. Or burn out in stop/start traffic. A Tesla will do it's 0-60 magic over and over and over again and not overheat.
My take on this is that maybe China has something that can actually compete with Tesla in the real world, but from what I have seen in other Chinese electrical stuff I'd have to say probably not. Wayne, (who has the book It's NOT the LAW advertised at the top of this page) had an American made Rotogen power supply to provide super stable operation of his gun shop machining equipment (before the BATF screwed him over with a raid) and it was MASSIVE for its output rating and the main rotating unit (which is called a motor generator) weighed over 600 pounds. I saw it myself and photographed it and put it on Ebay after the BATF destroyed him. It was made in America. And I can guarantee it would deliver it's rating day and night, hostile heat to arctic freeze until hell froze over. At that time, I also saw the cheap Chinese units that were rated the same at 1/4 the price, and they were absolute toys.
With that as a reference, I'd have to say I'll wait and see on this new Chinese car, maybe it will deliver as promised and maybe maybe it will be good enough to be an every day work car like the Tesla is, but I sure would not bet on it until it really proved itself.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-04/gone-in-2-39-seconds-faraday-claims-tesla-beating-electric-car