Electric future for STCC from 2023

[GHOGH]

Electric motorsport batteries appear to be quite tricky as the batteries are required to have an 80g crash rating.
The Formula E gen 3 with the WAE (Williams Advanced Engineering) 47kWh battery 9169MJ) race power of 402hp. Car weighs 760kg/ 1676lbs. Range is claimed as 59 miles/ 94km.
Have to see how the Swedish touring cars position on the battery/ range/ performance etc matrix.

[AnnoyedMoose]

Originally Posted by FIRE

Maybe I'm thinking far too easily about electric power trains but if electric road cars can do 400, 500 or even 600 km why can electric race cars only do 15 minutes? Isn't really good pr for electric cars.

Reminds me of a Top Gear episode years ago where they were slagging off (from memory) the Tesla Roadster as it could only do a handful of laps on their track.

What they didn't mention at the time but was brought up many times by others is that the ICE cars they test there generally return MPG figures in the single figures while being hooned around.

People don't think about the huge fuel tanks in proper race cars and the pitstops etc.