NATdS Report #41: Acceleration and Autocross Results

[Michael H Bianchi <bianchi@research.telcordia.com>]

The morning of Wednesday, 26 May, the NESEA Tour was at the Lebanon
Valley Auto Racing Track in New Lebanon NY to use their drag strip for
acceleration testing.  The drag way was wet, as it had rained earlier
in the day, so these times and speeds are probably not the best some
of the vehicles could have done.  There was some spinning of tires on
the wet surface.

On Friday afternoon, the Mohawk Hudson Region SCCA (Sports Car Clubs
of America) ran an autocross event, where the handling of the cars was
put to the test.

These each were the second time the vehicles were evaluated for
acceleration and handling.  Saturday and Sunday, 22-23 May, they were
put through their paces in Waterbury CT with a 50 foot acceleration
run, on a slightly inclined road, and a handling course around traffic
cones.  If it had not been possible to perform these tests due to
weather, the Waterbury numbers would have been used for official
scoring.  Since they were able to do these tests, these numbers were
used to compute the final scores.

In the Acceleration tests the values are the time for the 1/4 mile and
the speed at the end of that 1/4 mile.

In the Autocross, each vehicle was allowed two runs, and the value is
the lowest time on the course.


                                  1/4 MI    1/4 MI   Autocross
Car #   Car                        trial    trial    Handling
                                    sec      mph        sec

        PRODUCTION CATEGORY
 10     Sunergy                    26.447    45.09    35.929
 15     Nordic Challenger          22.114    58.04    34.601
 26     Ford Ranger EV             20.193    63.34    35.301
 27     RAV4 EV                    23.4      57.6      0
 30     Caballito Electric         34.663    31.05    37.793
 35     CATS                       24.092    53.87    35.558
 41     Solectria CitiVan          30.35     41.77    42.505
 51     Epic                       22.469    64.61    34.073
 52     Epic                       21.341    65.15    36.174
 67     Solectria NiCad Force      24.787    54.36    34.965
 76     Ovonic Solectria Force     23.169    57.23    35.302

        COMMUTER CATEGORY
  6     Eride                      27.17     49.57    37.166
 11     Super Force                27.625    54.3     35.606
 12     MooRocco                   28.238    47.56    37.961
 13     Electrifly                 23.57     59.37     0
 16     The Olympian               24.813    60.67    37.014
 17     Kilowatt Kamel             26.513    52.86    33.569
 32     Electric Bull              24.16     55.53    32.832
 37     UEHS Solar Tiger           32.209    35.47     0
 50     Sparky Spartan             33.291    47.94    34.086
 61     Solar Bolt                 24.97     51.36    35.392
 66     Recharger                  24.605    52.08    33.696
 71     PV EV                      25.988    49.89    33.719
 72     Sungo                      21.782    59.19    33.263

        DOE HYBRID CATEGORY
  7     Paradyne                   20.887    64.82    33.712
  8     Electric Lion              24.932    55.95    53
  9     NJ Venturer                25.893    69.88    37.935
 14     Slipstream                 23.565    56.8      0
 18     Kineticar III              25.111    52.11    39.932
 23     Viking 23                  21.532    62.08    38.053
 24     HEV Blazer                 24.159    61.38    39.523

        SOLAR COMMUTER CATEGORY
 20     Solar Black Bear           26.36     48.5     39.815
 38     Artemis*                   29.589    44.69     0
 83     Sol Survivor IV            27.831    45.43    39.611
 93     Helios the Heron VI        27.381    49.13    41.17

        ONE PERSON CATEGORY
 36     Futura EVs                 35.196    31.32     0
 39     Elextric scooter           29.589    44.69    45.414
 58     NFA Sol Machine II         21.341             39.769
 92     Sunpacer #92               31.061    37.86    46.003

                             MAX   35.196    69.88
                             MIN   20.193    31.05

*  Artemis was pushed by 3 crew members at the start of the
acceleration test, so these numbers are better than they should have
been.  One other team did the same thing, but I don't recall which
one.

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