• Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    0-60 in a road car would be near impossible because, like you mentioned, you wouldn’t have the traction for it.

    Top fuel dragsters tend to do their 0-60 in about 0.8-0.9 seconds and that’s using extremely specialized tires on a specifically prepped track surface and they are still traction limited.

    The fastest EV 0-60 (as far as I could find) was a Formula Student car called Mythen WR at 0.956 seconds. It hit 62mph in 40ft. Also it was driven by a woman.

    Edit: I was doing some more reading about top fuel dragsters and the fastest 0-60 time (which was approximately 0.8 sec, they don’t actually measure it) came from Brittany Force’s (which is a crazy cool name) 1000ft run at the 2019 Las Vegas run. She ran the 1000ft in just 3.695 seconds and crossed the line at 338.17 mph. There’s a video in my link too, it’s crazy to watch. For you Europeans that’s hitting just shy of 550 kmph in just over 300m