Drayson B12 200 mph electric car | Fully Charged

Recorded summer of 2013, the Drayson B12 sets out to break the electric car land speed record.
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[@AlanStainer]

*Incredibly quick electric car!* If anyone was in any doubt about electric cars being the future, then this should dispel some myths. Wow.

[@Neojhun]

growlingbehemoth Wow you are ignorant for that comment in 2017. You have no clue how Brutal and Vicious new Supercar BEVs have become. They are not silent and most have a vicious sound because gears going past 10,000RPM. NIO EP9 current record holder for 2 seater on 20.832km lap of Nürburgring has Heartrate & Biometrics monitor for the passenger to record the ferocious effect. You have no clue what you are talking about instead your head is in the gutter "electrical things mom keeps in the drawer by the bed"

[@FalloutNewNarwhal]

I'm not gonna dignify this kid with a reponse.

[@baileyyates8746]

Saw this when it came out and over the last 6 years ive been working through college and now an engineering degree so that i can work on projects like this as they are beginning to take over the world, thanks for the inspiring content!

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

I just want to say that if you watch this episode and then one of the latest ones, you can see that this show has come a LONG way in terms of presentation quality. Not that the first ones were bad - they're not - but that the latest ones are top-notch and professionally done. Well done! JW3HH

[@heatleynoble]

Love your sponsor at the end directly slagging off your old sponsor!

[@oldguy537]

loved it, brought out the kid in me all over again.. thanks for sharing ..

[@quantum12b]

Inspiring! Love the sound it makes :0)

[@medman36]

nice episode. Great that you were able to get some arial and in car video footage!

[@EVguru]

When I originally heard about this record being set, I remembered the late Ed Rannberg, who built 'Lightning Rod', the first EV to set an FIA record of over 200mph at 215.3mph in 1997. I was involved in EV circuit racing back then and spend some time talking to Ed. Lots of great memories from those days.

[@000BigKev]

I love these little Fully Charged eps. The vehicles are so different from anything we see in Australia. Anyone get's a clever idea in this country the government sees that they take their cleverness somewhere else quickly before it catches on and someone else has a clever idea.

[@HesteBremse]

Acceleration seamed nuts - Good Vid ;).

[@kuglepen64]

Fully awesome!

[@tomsdaddy]

Great Vid, Great Car, thanks !

[@fabricio-agrippa-zarate]

I want a whole race category with EVs like this, and Teslas, and Lucids, and NIOs...

[@kelli217]

Robert, whoever is doing the sound editing for you for this series would do well to track the stereo output on your camcorder footage, as it seems to always come out of only one side. Otherwise, great episode!

[@fullychargedshow]

Hi Kelli, I wish I had someone who 'did the sound editing' fo me. Sadly it's just me making a mess of it. I thought I had solved the sound issues, clearly not, I did check with headphones before I finished and I didn't notice, but then I'm old and probably a bit deaf :-) I'll try harder.

[@netsurfer10000]

fullychargedshow :D

[@the_swedish_ride]

wonderful

[@payneinthebutt3098]

Like that ending.

[@chriswouse7713]

I'm not too far from Elvington Arifield and it always seems to get used for testing high performance stuff, but never hear about it. How do you know what's on and when?

[@FINDaCHANNEL]

when the car pulls away in the cockpit view it so sounds like a radio controlled car

[@0tispunkm3y3r]

An old friend from school also drives for Barwell. In fact you can see him standing around behind the car toward the end (Jonny Cocker). Robert, I know this won't be fully in keeping with the channel, but it would be cool for you to check out Nissans ZEOD car that will do Le Mans this year out of Garage 56 (experimental). Now while it has a 1.5 3 cylinder petrol engine, they are going to attempt to achieve at least 1 lap of La Sarthe purely on electricity per fuel tank. If they can do that for the full 24 hours it will be impressive!

[@fullychargedshow]

I'm really interested in the Nissan ZEOD, amazing technology, wish I could go to Le Mans and see it in action. Great stuff happening.

[@kukac1231]

I like the technology and the fact that drivers (if will be applied on racing)dont need to focus on other technical things that can be distracted apart from driving . The sounds of the car is cool too but iam sure the engineers can find ways to customize it.

[@Mayhemm007]

I've missed the classic FC intro. Bonkers to think that the 2020 Tesla Roadster will outperform this thing!

[@SuperFuzzmonkey]

Sounds like a jet 🤘🏻

[@PITANIA1]

that's really impressive

[@maikydb]

Awesome

[@heatleynoble]

Chris Harris on cars has done an excellent interview with Paul Drayson and drove this car; if you want to find oit more. No offence Robert :-)

[@jehugarcia]

Nice one day i will have this system on my Samba kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJKliHmphdGrbdk Do you think It will do 200mph?

[@fullychargedshow]

I love your Samba project, I've been watching your videos with interest, very nice stuff. One day I'll get back to the US and I'd love to come and see it for real. Good luck, and no, don't bother with 200 mph, go for 200 mile range!

[@kidmecha]

Wow, that sounds like a jet plane!

[@WayneBurgess1]

It will take this kind of thinking to make it happen.

[@electrictroy2010]

I just noticed you haven't driven any Honda hybrids. I see Toyota, Vauxhall (GM), Ford, et cetera but no Civic hybrids or Insight hybrids or CRZ hybrids. You ought to try one. (Note: The Insight style & dash is very similar to the Fuel cell Clarity.) :-)

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

I like how he says "The acceleration is just so f-strong" at 3:37. 0-200 in 11 seconds? Yep, I'd call that f-strong alright! LOL! JW3HH

[@chrisearle7129]

Cool

[@SMSmith]

Sounds like a fucking jet.

[@greyareaRK1]

That was impressive. I couldn't believe how fast the accelerometer kept jumping, - or the car - it's basically a low-flying jet. It certainly sounded like one. Lord Drayson seems very mild mannered for a speed junkie. ;-)

[@KennethSpark]

Interesting how so many miss the pause of shifts in a transmission. Yet another bit of re-education of the masses that newer technology must over-come.

[@Grumpy_old_Boot]

Many people don't so much miss the part of shifting, as they miss the part of being involved in making the car go faster. The less there is for the driver to do, the less "heroic" he is, and the less satisfied he is. Humans are emotional creatures, to a very high degree.

[@Hirotoro4692]

Jesus45U Wait till said people try the acceleration of an EV, they will change their tune pronto :D

[@Grumpy_old_Boot]

Will Davis Well now, that's an interesting thought. I have tried a bunch of cars by now, as my neighbour own a car dealership, so he lets me try things out if I ask nicely. And while EV cars do have good acceleration, you often don't feel it as much as a petrol car since there are no gear shifts, it's just one smooth acceleration. I do like it, don't get me wrong, but I don't find it particularly engaging. The most fun I've had in a car in the last few years, was in the Morgan 3-wheeler - It's hilarious! :D And also the Caterham Seven 160 springs to mind, and that only had a tiny 660cc engine producing 80hp. But it's fun! I have driven a few real monsters, I have even driven a few amateur dragsters, and yes, EV's are fast and all, but they are generally somewhat .... wallpaperpaste-ish with beige on top. That'll change though, as manufacturors get the hang of them and experiment some more, but right now the driving experience in most EV's are frankly a bit lackluster. They are very good at being reasonable, but at the same time they are also not very good at being un-reasonable. You could say that Lord Drayson is working on changing that. Let's hope he succeed. :)

[@zapfanzapfan]

I wonder if the first 300 mph sports car will be electric of gasoline? Bugatti and Koenigsegg are both doing 270-280 now. Will that be the last hooray from gasoline?

[@paraglide01]

Next world record: electric bicycle that hits 200mph. ;-)

[@RadanovicDanijel]

Will you make a video on Rimac Concept One?

[@essentials1016]

I hope so

[@kevinbarton9052]

This is a great suggestion if this electric car added solar panels surrounding the whole race car, not only for charging batteries, but also running the car much longer on sunny days until dusk.

[@Muskar2]

+Kevin Barton It wouldn't go that much further. Especially not a racing car. The energy consumption in a car is much greater than solar panels in such a small surface area could produce. I'm no physicist, and have neither looked up the numbers in a long time - but I believe it's insignificant in orders of magnitude. It's also very inefficient because the panels are rarely facing the optimal direction. And much more expensive (which would although matter less in a supercar of course).

[@kevinbarton9052]

Well I tried my best if bigger improvements on longer lasting rechargeable batteries built for speed, Especially solar panels charging the batteries quicker is the kind of big improvement.

[@HexaSquirrel]

+Kevin Barton The weight disadvantage of adding solar panels compared to 2016 levels of regenerative braking simply out weight any small advantage solar panels would. Road cars maybe might get more of an advantage out of them though.

[@GeeKayKayGee]

It would be interesting to know the difference in noise level between this electric monster at 200mph and a petrol powered car at 200mph

[@Hirotoro4692]

It would, though at those kinds of speeds tyre (and in particular, air noise) tend to greatly supersede the noise of the engine.

[@NowAndThenEH89JW]

How powerful is this car in kilowatts? If that braking were regenerative?

[@Jack2488]

I support fracking. Great bit on the B12 though, bringing the electric future closer and closer.

[@Joe90V]

You might regret that opening phrase if they open a well near you. All those HGVs passing your house night and day. Green Gas is the best solution, it's currently imported from the Netherlands, but we should make our own here - see Ecotricity.

[@Hirotoro4692]

Why support it when alternatives exist that work just as effectively, if only these short-sighted firm execs realised this fact? Plus we're still not certain if fracking is responsible for local 'mini earthquakes' causing property damage, etc.

[@5000mahmud]

@@Hirotoro4692 However, the mini earthquakes may be acting as a release valve, preventing larger more destructive earthquakes. Would prefer greener alternatives though.

[@eclipse2260]

yo this is it

[@DanFrederiksen]

Interesting. Why was Eric there? what's his interest in the EV situation. You don't fly from california for nothing. And how did he know about the event? how did you?

[@MrKodyJ]

"I feel the need, The Need for SPEED!"

[@rukhsharfitter]

Did aliens conquer your microphone

[@buzzofftoxicblog791]

cool IDEA key is clean tecknolgy integration Fully Charged WALES NEEDS THIS WORLD NEEDS THIS #BUZZOFFTOXIC #BUZZONGREEN

[@11Forty6]

Would love to see it do a lap of an F1 circuit in a race with an F1 car, range permitting?

[@Wrongrealities]

+James Garfield They have formula E racing now... full races www.fiaformulae.com/

[@andrewnorgrove6487]

im guessing this is the car Richard Hammond crashed a while ago ! These things really sound and go like the old slot cars we raced when kids .

[@hertzwave8001]

no he crashed a rimac, this is completely different

[@evthink]

Richard crashed a Rimac !

[@soundslave]

Robert, can you start looking at Formula E? It's like Formula one but all electric. There will be a race in London this summer!

[@GraemeWigglesworth]

Formula E is in London 2015 not 2014...... but a great thing though,....

[@soundslave]

Graeme Wigglesworth Oops you're right. The season starts this year but the London race is next year.

[@JF_Zhang03]

the sound is so emotional ??!....wtf ?? what sound ??

[@gachu26]

Hace uno en español por favor

[@Hirotoro4692]

0-60 mph in slightly less than 2.5 seconds.

[@lwjooms9362]

Whauw

[@FentoZ]

full likes for a car that truly deserves it fuck buggaty lambos ferraris this is true engineering hope it wins the formula ev

[@TheEmiaix]

start song?

[@neddyladdy]

Race to 200 mph, coast to to stop, recharge, race to ...

[@Hirotoro4692]

Well if the Tesla Model S can maintain 130 mph for almost an hour, I'm pretty sure this car won't need a recharge immediately after hitting and slowing down from 200 mph.

[@SparkySlow]

truth is this future is delayed since 2000s becasue oil copanys keep making profit out of petrol

[@Stikkzz]

lol the 2000's? withdraw 100 years

[@danlingle7760]

Wasn't that Top Gear's track? I am surprised Clarkson wasn't to say something in tiredly stupid.

[@planespeaking]

Please buy Canon 5d mk3 and proper sound equip (furry mic) Your videos will look and sound sooooo much better :)))

[@SuperWayneyb]

Why can battery cars not simply swap battery packs and carry on as long as you want? That way smaller, lighter battery packs and also no limit to how far you can go. The car would pull in drop its battery pack pick up another fully charged battery pack and away it goes. Exiting pit stops and the tech would then develop to do the same on road cars.

[@danlingle7760]

That would be to much like right. The manufacturers don't like one size fits all.

[@razorseal]

Tesla is on top of this. Google tesla car battery wrap. 30 seconds to swap the battery

[@danlingle7760]

Tesla battery won"t swap with leaf or other electric cars. Good idea but all manufacturers have to work together.

[@markusvonroder]

Dan Lingle That's a terrible idea, that has been tried by the now defunct "Better Place". You are looking at a massive, expensive infrastructure being built up, and on the manufacturer's side a LACK of possible innovation in chassis design and battery forms and chemistries, as none of them can just run with a "better concept" by themselves.

[@joanbuenten7495]

Wait 25yrs it will be hard to find an gass pump!!!

[@grendalnewgod]

You'll have to buy gasoline in 5gal buckets at an autoparts store.

[@mousse34]

Next to the Bugatti Veyron I wonder how it'll go? .... > Electric it's the way to go !

[@baldandold]

So wheres the leccy road cars apart from Tesla and some Noddy cars? ... Ford/GM/VAG arent giving up thier IC engines just yet

[@SlidewaysSyndicate]

did anyone see that bouncing :o why would anyone ever drive down that road!

[@trevorshaw9752]

One in the eye, for people who took the mickey, Out of electric cars, Look who's laughing Now, Ha Ha Ha ... I knew fast electric cars would be made one day !

[@MyMMC]

i bet an ordonary tesla will do 200mph too if you remove the factory settings..

[@Dude31463]

+MyMMC Really, Tesla could probably send you a speed limiter over-ride via cloud on request... No trailer full of high tech crew required. HA!

[@MyMMC]

Dude31463 they never would thats the problem. doing it yourself is not so hard if you understand programming a little bit.

[@Dude31463]

Irrelevant!!!

[@knifeyonline]

would tesla P100D even come close to the acceleration to 200mph?

[@Neojhun]

Joseph Stott YES the P100D motors are designed to go upto 20,000RPM but safety limited to 16,000. Meaning its gear ratio would allow it to go past 200+. Problem is such high speed introduces Aerodynamic and Handling problems. All current Tesla cars do not have the Aerodynamics to safely handle 200mph. FYI Lucid Air prototype achieve 217mph at Ohio Transportation Research Centre.

[@MotoAtheist]

Meanwhile don garlits can't even hit 200mph in his electric purposely built drag car. LOL!

[@tekprodave]

in 1000 feet. This one has 800HP and Don's has 2000hp so do the math. Duh!

[@zogworth]

That'd be the gearing dear

[@0XpVqX0]

And the battery goes 100 to 0 in 60 seconds

[@michealyarbrough2645]

🔧

[@dansmith2009774]

i currently see three problems with electric cars, the batteries weigh far too much,the electric range is fairly poor,poor life span

[@CTimmerman]

Range is more than enough for most people: A 380 mile Volt would last 10 days for the average suburbian and 7 for rural folks; the average daily drive total for urban-based cars was just 36.5 miles, while rural-based cars drove an average of 48.6 miles. Weight is offset by lighter materials: a Tesla Roadster weighs 1220.2 kg. 2000 USD per year for battery replacement every 5 years may be a lot, though.

[@dansmith2009774]

in five years time they maybe ready but for now they are just too exspensive

[@johnbenton4488]

dan smith Cost is the biggest stumbling block. Do you think there would be economies of scale if this technology was more widely accepted, and more e-cars were bought?

[@JustinCrediblename]

***** sort of like when it's in my head when I'm helping a friend move from his remote country house, towing a 20 foot flatbed trailer full of his stuff, crossing a stream, and "thinking I'm running out of batteries because the car won't move any farther", right?

[@johnbenton4488]

Oh Dear!

[@MatthewShermanHappy420]

its good he got out of government the dark energy trolls and joined the white energy fight to save the planet. Every electric car helps! God bless!

[@TempestTossedWaters]

You Britons and your lords. Will you get rid of the last unelected remnants of feodalism already?

[@JustinCrediblename]

Hannu Marijarvi have you looked at the USA recently? Are you sure that's a good idea?

[@helenwinrow471]

feudalism

[@RahilSethi]

Bring roadster v2. It'll smoke this car without making any noise.

[@hertzwave8001]

no

[@VinceIsDatBitch]

5 seconds? Boo.

[@hertzwave8001]

thats pretty good

[@josejuancorona]

Tesla is way faster

[@TheFlatCapFromWN5]

Except it isn't. The Drayson B12/EV can outdo any Tesla by top speed, grip and mileage. Of course, Teslas are not purpose built race cars so in terms of road cars, they probably are the best of the bunch.

[@hertzwave8001]

they're the only ones

[@heatleynoble]

Love your sponsor at the end directly slagging off your old sponsor!