High-Performance Electrics Hit the Blacktop

Charles Murray

September 4, 2014

4 Min Read
High-Performance Electrics Hit the Blacktop

Time was when consumers thought of electric cars as glorified golf carts. That image, however, couldn't be more out of date, if it ever was accurate in the first place.

Today's electric production cars have posted 0-60 mph numbers of under four seconds. And EVs are growing more commonplace at dragstrips. Even racing legend Big Daddy Don Garlits has competed in an electrically powered dragster.

We've collected photos of electric cars, designed for both the neighborhood blacktop and the commercial dragstrip. From the Crazyhorse Pinto and the Killacycle motorcycle to the Tesla Roadster and the 500-HP Renovo Coupe, we offer a peek at the blistering performance of the electric powertrain.

Click on Renovo Motors' Coupe to start the slideshow.

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About the Author

Charles Murray

Charles Murray is a former Design News editor and author of the book, Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car, published by Purdue University Press. He previously served as a DN editor from 1987 to 2000, then returned to the magazine as a senior editor in 2005. A former editor with Semiconductor International and later with EE Times, he has followed the auto industry’s adoption of electric vehicle technology since 1988 and has written extensively about embedded processing and medical electronics. He was a winner of the Jesse H. Neal Award for his story, “The Making of a Medical Miracle,” about implantable defibrillators. He is also the author of the book, The Supermen: The Story of Seymour Cray and the Technical Wizards Behind the Supercomputer, published by John Wiley & Sons in 1997. Murray’s electronics coverage has frequently appeared in the Chicago Tribune and in Popular Science. He holds a BS in engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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