OT: Milwaulkee V28 L-Ion Dragster

[BillDaCatt]

For those of you who have not seen it yet.

From the website: link (the text and pic is the entire press release)

Milwaukee's V28 Powered Dragster

04/07/2006

MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee Electric Tool Chief Engineer, Jon Zick, and Senior Repair Technician, Frank Mejia, found themselves on the Discovery Channel’s Monster Garage in December 2005, trying to help answer the question, “Can Milwaukee Electric Tool’s V28TM batteries power a monster car?”

The car was designed and re-built in five days. Monster Garage’s latest mechanical marvel, a 1962 Chevy Bel Air, was re-powered to run off of 384 V28™ Lithium-Ion batteries. The batteries drive twin electric forklift motors and were connected in series to produce about 336 volts at 3,000 amps.

At the test, the V28 Bel Air hit 93.3 miles per hour, running the quarter in a very respectable 14.53 seconds.



If you do the math; even if they were only $50 each 384 batteries would be: $19,200.00

[Sundown]

Bet they had a blast building that, bets working any day IMO ... Someone (DeWalt maybe ?) has 32V batteries coming out, maybe they need to build a car using those and a covair body and have a run-off.

[Brasco]

BillDaCatt thanks for posting the link. That was one of the best builds in a long time. Looked like they were gonna fail for a minute but they pulled it off. Milwaukee also provided 200 some chargers for the V28 packs. total "Freebee" cost $75,000 a little much for my junkin funds but what a great show it was. I'll be gettin the DVD on this one.