New Electric Vehicle Lakester Class

[SpeedRacer93]

Just looking through the new 2023 SCTA Rules and saw a new Electric Vehicle Lakester class (EVL).   I don't remember hearing about this before now.   I know a couple people have run EV Lakesters but in the streamliner class (EV).   The EVL class has the same weight breakdowns as the EV, Turbine and Steam classes but the Turbine and Steam currently do not have a lakester class. 

[SPARKY]

build them and they will come 

[Stainless1]

Hey Sparky have you started collecting AAA batteries yet       

[WOODY@DDLLC]

Sparky's still chasing that battery bunny!  :-P

[MRK]

Just looking through the new 2023 SCTA Rules and saw a new Electric Vehicle Lakester class (EVL).   I don't remember hearing about this before now.   I know a couple people have run EV Lakesters but in the streamliner class (EV).   The EVL class has the same weight breakdowns as the EV, Turbine and Steam classes but the Turbine and Steam currently do not have a lakester class.

In the Turbine and Steam classes, the body configuration is still unlimited. Build a Lakester or Streamliner. Your choice.
The EV classes are being expanded and the breaking out of EV Streamliners and EV Lakesters is part of the natural progression. Nothing's changed except that the two different body configurations are now called out.
Cheers

[SPARKY]

I am struggling to figure out the electrical system on our AG/L . With all the wires for the data logging, I may have to start studying bird nests for organizational  and construction tips.

[kiwi belly tank]

Yeah I hear ya Sparky! I'm putting a new system in the liner & there are 128 wires for this thing but I do have 16 smart ignition coils with 4 wires each so that accounts for 64 of them! I sure am missing one wire to kill the mags & a box of pills.
  Sid.

[ronnieroadster]

 Electric vehicles very interesting. I'm wondering will the SCTA be involved with the installation of the charging stations?   If not the charging could take place at the Pilot truck stop.

[SpeedRacer93]

Electric vehicles very interesting. I'm wondering will the SCTA be involved with the installation of the charging stations?   If not the charging could take place at the Pilot truck stop.

BYU used a bio-diesel generator.   EVWest used a generator, Vesco/reVolt Systems use a portable solar array and generator.

[slowalex]

Just looking through the new 2023 SCTA Rules and saw a new Electric Vehicle Lakester class (EVL).   I don't remember hearing about this before now.   I know a couple people have run EV Lakesters but in the streamliner class (EV).   The EVL class has the same weight breakdowns as the EV, Turbine and Steam classes but the Turbine and Steam currently do not have a lakester class.

This makes perfect sense to me, imagine you want to run a turbine, where are you going get your gas turbine? From my understanding the team vesco car uses a surplus helicopter gas turbine. Probably not cheap and you're going to need some help from a gas turbine specialist and those sort of skills don't come cheap either.

For an electric landspeed racer, maybe you can get parts from surplus/wrecked electric road cars, hybrids and various types of surplus electrical equipment. It wouldn't surprise me if we saw a lot more electric cars on the salt in the next few years and demand for additional classes.

[floydjer]

Well heck...The first land speed record was set by an electric car.

[Rex Schimmer]

Sid said: "Yeah I hear ya Sparky! I'm putting a new system in the liner & there are 128 wires for this thing but I do have 16 smart ignition coils with 4 wires each so that accounts for 64 of them! I sure am missing one wire to kill the mags & a box of pills. :"

Sid, I don't recall hearing that someone forced you to go with 128 wires, smart ignition coils and not to use mags and a kill switch. Wiring at Bonneville is the root of a lot of problems and they are the worst kind.

See you at the Salt in a couple of weeks!!

Rex