Ford Mustang Mach-E Pikes Peak Race Car Looks Like It's on Steroids - C&D

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BetterSite2844@reddit

I wonder if we’ll ever see an ev with ejecting battery packs

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techtimee@reddit

Was already done. There was a F150 lightning for racing that had hot swap batteries. I believe it was a one off though. The Chinese ate already doing it with civilian vehicles though.

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AmNoSuperSand52@reddit

So does that mean that somewhere along the populated highways they have buildings stocked full of actively-charging giant lithium batteries?

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classecrified@reddit

Wait until you hear what's in the ground at every gas station

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AmNoSuperSand52@reddit

The thousands of gallons of liquified, non-aerosolized gasoline buried under concrete?

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I can't recall exactly how they were doing it, but they were built like enclosures in a car wash, you'd drive in and the machines would swap the batteries under 10 minutes. Was pretty crazy. But yeah, now that you mention it is kind of scary lol.

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snoo-boop@reddit

RocketLab's Electron rocket drops a battery during flight.

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BetterSite2844@reddit

Hell yeah I have no idea what turbo pumps are but they sound rad

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Firereign@reddit

Rule of thumb: “turbo” means it’s a spinny thing that gets pushed on one side and does something useful on the other side.

A turbocharger has a turbine spun by an engine’s exhaust, which then spins a compressor to force more air into the engine.

A turbojet/turbofan engine has a turbine in the jet exhaust to power the compressor and fan at the front, before it spits the jet exhaust out.

A power station’s turbines are spun by steam from a heat source, which then drive a generator.

A rocket engine needs enormously powerful pumps to supply fuel and oxidizer. Small rockets can drive them electrically. That’s not feasible for large rockets, because their pumps need a crazy amount of power, so they usually have a separate burner to drive a turbine for the pumps.

For an idea of how monstrous these pumps are: the first stage of the Saturn V used 5 engines, and the turbopump for each engine produced 55,000 horsepower.

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snoo-boop@reddit

A turbocharger in a car compresses air. A rocket it has to carry its own oxidizer, so there are 2 pumps, one for liquid oxygen and one for Jet-A (for this rocket.) Often they are powered by burning a little bit of the propellant, but for small rocket's it's more efficient to have the pumps be battery powered. And, traditionally, they're called turbopumps.

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Dry_Student_6279@reddit

Close enough, welcome back Mustang coupe

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StraightStackin@reddit

Idk, I watched some EV race cars and they feel rapid like my old electric RC cars, its just different though. Blusteringly fast, but in a sci-fi space ship kinda way not sports or rally cars type of way.

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