Rhys Millen | Full Winning Run Onboard + Interview | 2015 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb

[@ajurjans]

A truly unique car in the hands of a great driver. It is hard to imagine, that this car, by modern standards, is almost "shed-made" - and a true confirmation to the fact that some of the worlds greatest automotive engineers are from Latvia! #LatvijaVar Congratulations to the team!

[@camarowland4]

Looks like he's going to take the true overall win. They shortened the course because of weather so the rest of the runs today will be asterisked.

[@Imantos]

This is great. Drive eO pulled it off against all odds on a tight budget and just a handful of devoted craftsmen. Hats off to them, and Mr. Millen for a flawless drive!

[@JustinCrediblename]

Imantos How tight WAS their budget? I might want one :)

[@Imantos]

***** Let's say you'd be better off with the budget of some of the other teams :)

[@OverpassVisuals]

Next year they'll push for overall record. I really hope that Rhys will stay Drive-eO's pilot. Loeb, you better start packing... #LatvijaVar

[@ostudija]

Apsveicu komandu! #LatvijaVar #driveeo #PPIHC

[@gogazala6675]

I congratulate the entire team !!! Rhys Millen well done. P.S. Prieks, lepnums un gods par Jūsu neatlaidību. LIELISKI.

[@reinisdreijers517]

Good run, surprised about win even with power problems. That means that he have plenty of space for new record next year!

[@Kaisuke971]

+Reinis Dreijers There is still a full minute to shove off !

[@k1wi_steve]

I love seeing a fellow Kiwi in the media overseas setting new records, Rhys is so humble lol. Makes me proud to be a Kiwi.

[@BrassStacks]

Great run! Next year is going to be AMAZING!!!!!!

[@buzzbloomfield2754]

God he's so smooth about it, what a gorgeous drive all around.

[@arisplugis5197]

Latvian car did this!

[@Eucal]

Yes good job Latvian car broke halfway up

[@WasabiWei]

Fantastic! It is actually kind of a nice way to start - very impressive already, with plenty of headroom for future records. To me personally this is the most exciting motorsport news in quite some time. (I am gathering funds for my own electric motrocycle conversion project, so I am a bit biased.)

[@produKtNZ]

I wish some external camera angles were included.

[@jasonw2222]

produKtNZ I guess they have never seen WRC video?

[@AgentSmith911]

Those Gs going up that mountain must be amazing

[@the8strait]

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[@QuickGaAaamezorSTUdioQG54B1TCH]

What a wonderful sensation created by ALLLL the ambient sounds [[[...and SIrrrrens.!?!!..]]] captured by the onboard mic at every section! What a sensational drive that mus've felt like ^__^ !!

[@spazzmonster]

A great course for an electric all wheel drive race car. Short with plenty of areas where high torque and lots of traction play a key part in bringing the car back up to speed. Well done!

[@alancameron8897]

Ken Wright you know something!

[@christosswc]

This is all very nice. Now back to listening to Jeff Zwart's awesome turbo Porsche as he attacks Pikes Peak. You see video with sound always beats video without.

[@evisovi207]

YES, LATVIA WIN! Maybe obsolutely record in next year! :)

[@ABCDEFGHIJKELA...]

at 3:26 I think that's the corner Randy Pobst crashed his 09' GTR on, I've compared the scenery and I am 90% certain that's the one, it's amazing how gracefully this e-car manages it ^^ with so much weight so low, the cars center of gravity is much lower, allowing it to really dig into the corners much more efficiently than it's fossil fueled contemporaries, so fast, so sticky, it just wins me over on every level...well, I miss the sound :(

[@jasonw2222]

YASA Motors offer a range of 'off-the-shelf' motors. Oxfordshire, UK world's first one megawatt all-electric race car. Designed and built in Latvia, the 1020 kW (1368 hp) Six YASA-400 electric motors

[@Datsun510zen]

Lightning Electric motorcycle stunned the field at PPIHC with a fastest time against gas bike in 2013. Electric motors don't suffer from altitude sickness.

[@JPacheco91]

The future is electric!

[@JustinCrediblename]

João Pacheco Indeed it is :) Just recently, a supercapacitor was developed that has higher energy density than gasoline. it utilized graphene. (so it would cost like 10 million for a battery pack) but lithium ion cells are getting cheaper by about 9% per year, too.

[@JustinCrediblename]

***** let's see how quickly graphene becomes something we can mass produce. There are already supercapacitors with greater energy density than gasoline.

[@Merecir]

João Pacheco And powered by nuclear. Google LFTRs.

[@bigpuppy2004]

João Pacheco Hydrogen > Electric

[@wilianamaral]

***** Point me any H2 car racing and winning an e-car and then we can talk

[@MareksMatisons]

Latvian #DriveeO Megawatt car with @RhysMillenRacing. He overcame the 20 kilometres and 156 corners of the #PPIHC mountain at staggering 9:07.222 with Latvian electric super-racecar #DriveeO!

[@blackdotlv]

Latvians know how to build electric super cars! awesome!

[@GenericGerman]

"Half" it's engines and still new record, amazing!

[@danbruffell]

Nice drive! Hats off to you Sir

[@npsit1]

4:50 It's fascinating how the trees just stop at that altitude.. Trees trees trees trees trees dirt. What's neat about electric vehicles doing this race - is that altitude doesn't really affect them from the bottom to the top. Except in the case of keeping everything cool because the air is a bit thinner. Otherwise, no affect on the power output since the motor doesn't rely on the amount of oxygen in the air. And it's freaking quiet.

[@josephsottile7993]

Awesome video!

[@davidsmeladze]

8:26 squirrel nailed it! Slo mo pls!

[@avada0]

Davids Meladze The movements suggest a cat or something similar to me. BTW it's just 10 frames, not much to slow-mo there.

[@JapCarRealGood]

"Good God, we gonna rock down to Electric Avenue And then we'll take it higher"

[@JakobusVdL]

That's pretty awesome! e.v's technology is obviously now capable of beating ICE's and hybrids on some sprint events, exciting times we live in :-) I guess that siren we hear when the car slows is coming from the car to warn marshals and spectators, perhaps the could choose a more exciting sound in future?

[@davids9577]

I think it started after the rear motor pack failed. The alarm must be reporting the failure I assume.

[@JakobusVdL]

+David S good point David, I hadn't made that link.

[@JustinCrediblename]

Where is the footage from Tajima? He seems to have dropped off of the map. May next year have a working car- I propose having a pivoting electric fan on top of the car that has downward side, rear, and forward thrust capabilities. We need 4 g's of downforce on the switchback turns

[@xchopp]

Eerie.... so quiet... but spaceship fast. See the small mammal at 8:27 -- anyone know what it is?

[@BoneBullet]

I'm amazed! That police car managed to keep up with him the entire way.

[@riceczech]

It would have been nice to have a camera on the gauges (speed and g force) inset into the picture.

[@avada0]

By the way, in my opinion the safety could use some improvement. There are a lot of high banks or whatever where people would be safe yet at 4:11 there are like a hundred people behind a fence that's not good for anything. A puncture or suspension failure at the wrong spot and you get another Le Mans '55. Then bye-bye Pikes Peak.

[@raivisberzins6843]

Proud to be Latvian. :)

[@SUSLICK]

Previous to final run the team found out that car is somehow faster if they REDUCE the power by some 10%, then in mid-course they lose power to rear motors. I don`t know if my math would be correct here, but at the first glance does this mean they achieved a record on just a 45% of power this thing can produce? I mean what the hell...... if that thing would be unleshed to full power. TheRealInsaneMode :)

[@alancameron8897]

die_Eisenfaust das auto yah!

[@_droid]

It's not a linear equation due to all the variables involved (mostly: traction). Just because they lost 45% power doesn't mean they would have magically been 45% faster or something crazy like that. But yeah, they have proven in previous runs that they can absolutely destroy all the previous records. They just need to do it reliably enough to set the record.

[@cybcarr]

Someone forgot to turn the mic on! :) ^^ There are no engine sounds... wrooo wrooo.

[@husnainanwaar1992]

i think without the engine noise and vibration the drivers can focus more on the driving

[@ninoschier9528]

The Vibrations might not be comfortable but I think the engine noise helps to estimate the speed you have

[@vicesat]

He´s flying low

[@Vaishlix]

I knew we can, because real Latvian does all the best, when they work seriosly, and also i knew it because in Latvia were really popular car and buses companies like Rusobalt, Vairogs(even known as Ford Vairogs in export name), Raf, and now DriveEo. :)

[@NativeTexMexican]

Why is there never a picture for this up?

[@lassesaikkonen501]

I only wish electric cars would come to the masses sooner. I can hardly wait!

No. Position Name Class Total Tm 3 1 Rhys Millen Elec-Electric Modified 09:07.222

[@BOB24502]

Altitude and thinner air doesn't affect the electric engine the way it does with internal combustion engines...

[@ontheedge33371]

sweet ,,,, electricity is so fast and cool I love it :)

[@JRo250]

Pennzoil sponsorship consisted of providing yellow stickers with their name on it :-)

[@alancameron8897]

JRoque250 hahaha

[@alessandroarizaluski9178]

2017: Loeb + Formula One car from 2004 + V6T engine(all new f1) = 5:57

[@MrIndrek]

@8:28 he runs over a squirrel? Them EVs, silent, but deadly.

[@Hirotoro4692]

Derp'e'ty'derp No, the squirrel gets out of the way in time. You can easily hear an EV coming at those speeds.

[@MrIndrek]

Will Davis Just to think, this squirrel (lets call him Bob) has been going to PP each year, like his father before him and grandfather before that. You see, to become a true manly squirrel, one must run each year over the road just before a car passes. But lately, in squirrel community, there have been myths of cars that make no sound and may squirrels have not returned from this proof-of-being-a-man test. No ones been able to confirm these myths, until now. Bob was the one who got away from the silent death, but just. Only just.

[@stotheh]

Derp'e'ty'derp Above the tree line? Doubtful.

[@xchopp]

stotheh ground squirrel?

[@ninoschier9528]

+Derp'e'ty'derp Bob the Hero of Pikes Peak

[@bradsterner3680]

check out the steering wheel! they just handed him the wheel and said "ok...she's yours". no $10k wheel some other ppihc drivers have to worry about

[@senja572]

Where is Tajima video?

[@WLN117]

What is it on track? 8:27

[@alancameron8897]

Forgive me approx. 900 hp+a soul twisting 4700 ft. lbs. torque.Watch out!

[@essiemme]

Bye bye, oil Adeus petróleo, mesmo! DAMN !!! This is fast !!!!

[@StevenPitts]

lol @ Pennzoil sponsorship.

[@dabotz_draws]

Most EV uses motors mounted on the chassis with axles, CV joints and - one speed - reduction gearboxes. These latter requires grease and oil (much less than I.C.E., but still some litres of the stuff over the life of a vehicle), and someone must make them. It may as well be one Pennzoil... (In other words, once a new tech seems poised to kill your main market, the sage [wo]man tries to put their toes in the new ones it offers, before these develop established players).

[@Kaisuke971]

Pikes Peak just went from tuned-up Rally cars on dirt to Electric Proto on Tarmac...

[@bxvbffff]

Is the police chasing him?

[@ColbyFulton]

Record is a minute faster. Once batteries get lighter, that record is toast!

[@asianforce]

C Funk actually the battery being heavier might be a good thing, it might lead to higher traction.

[@ColbyFulton]

asianforce Sure, but nothing is more important than thrust to weight ratio. The car is all-wheel drive so traction won't be too much of an issue.

[@asianforce]

is there anyway to raise the rps of the motor any higher?.

[@ColbyFulton]

asianforce Actually the battery probably spins at 10,000 rpm naturally, and is geared down heavily to provide the right torque to move the car. Electric cars don't usually have a transmission so I doubt it can go 1:1 ratio

[@asianforce]

isnt transmission a bad thing for overall power to road? since your putting energy through a massive list of gears and moving part with makes it so you are losing to the environment?

[@ilmarssuveizda]

Next year this car will beat Loeb's record.

[@marisbergmanisthebestofthe1715]

LIEPAJA sveic OGRI ar panakumu un rekordu !

[@ABCDEFGHIJKELA...]

"Hi, Bolt, why you all swirly with the paint brah? ahh, dayumm homes..that's a wrap?! yo man, you better lock that hawty down!" ... too much? nobody gets it? well..I tried :P

[@marissilins1496]

It's simple why we won. Cause this car is made in LATVIJA!

[@bobsponge]

Good!

[@avada0]

Can anyone spot where he lost drive for the rear wheels? I couldn't. PS: This has to be one of the least informative titles ever... (Edit: And now it's improved)

[@Gazzasore]

No worries about Altitude for electric Cars

[@alancameron8897]

Gazzasore good point!

[@GloverX]

it's like an ufo on wheels

[@thedon008]

It looks like it's sped up. Ridiculous!:D

[@AgentSmith911]

8:27 nearly killed a squirrel lol

... made in Latvia!!!!!

[@jamsbong]

Still a long way away from Loeb's 8:13 record. Despite having more HP and more hp/kg and not to mentioned no power drop due from going up the hill.

[@alancameron8897]

James B I doubt your speculation.

[@DissYraiN]

+James B One of the motors went out halfway up. This car has one for the front, and one for the back wheels. one of those went out. If it wasn't for that (losing half the horsepower) it would have blown Loeb's Peugeot out of the water.

[@jamsbong]

KodRaiN Mechanical failure is part of racing.

[@DissYraiN]

Yeah, but it's absurd when people claim Electric can't compare, when it WOULD have beat Loeb's record without mechanical failure.

[@albanr7177]

+KodRaiN The 2016 race will settle the matter from a car's point of view. However, he was never able to beat Loeb on a combustion engine car.

[@ariebbers]

OK! The car is awesome! Power...torque....speed But that sirene...............

[@rebel3353]

almost had rabbit stew at 8:28...

[@artvandelay5013]

1 megawatt = 1 341.02209 hp

[@ninoschier9528]

So now the Day has arrived. Big engines and big turbos aren't number 1 anymore. It's only a Sprint race but still...

[@milnei]

The cops were still on his tail at the top!!

[@alancameron8897]

Ian Milner they had the model with full power all the way!

[@stotheh]

The normal speed limit is TWENTY FIVE MILES PER HOUR? WTF? Land of the free? Here in tyrannical Europe it'd be at least 60 as a single carriageway...

[@boltar2003]

Yeah yeah, futures electric, piston engine is dead. We've been hearing this for decades now. Unless you fancy your electric car collecting its current from overhead wires like an electric train then its not going to replace many piston engined vehicles anytime soon until the battery charging problem is solved. 9 mins to the top is impressive , but how long was the battery on charge for? Those piston engine competitor cars can be refilled in less than a minute.

[@MartianGopnik]

Goodness, I don't know why they still have those idiotic noisemakers on the EVs. I know they were added under the misconception that "you can't hear electric vehicles;" this video proves that anywhere but in the slowest corners--where the cars are travelling at speeds that are not likely to cause serious harm to a spectator *anyway*--the combination of wind noise and drivetrain noise is louder than the obnoxious siren. Those sirens probably just make collisions *more* likely, due to driver distraction. I'm curious to hear the drivers' opinions on them, actually...

[@ingars31]

GO LATVIA!!!

[@lul123]

oxygen supply line to the helmet

[@mrmactknife]

World's Fastest Police Car lolz

[@Demondal]

Impressive as it is, my god it's boring with no engine sound.

[@TheRustedBucket]

That car warning siren would be really annoying for Rhys, legitimate downside of electric cars, no-one hears you coming!

[@jayfarthing]

Impressive performance, absolutely no doubt about this from a technology perspective.. But good god an electric car and tarmac Pikes Peak makes for massively boring watching on youtube...

[@alancameron8897]

James farthing do not take your eyes off the road.

[@Mr11ESSE111]

If Sebastien loeb was on Pikes Peak he will win with Yugo 55 probably !! all this drivers now and in past years are semi amateurs in compare to Sebastian Loeb!! that man comes for first time and totally demolished time and record of Pikes Peak and electric cars like Rimac and this winner got 500 and 600hp more than gasoline engine from Sebastian Loeb and still they are almost minute+ behind !!

[@alancameron8897]

Mr11ESSE111 read the electric cars problem.then decide.

[@Mr11ESSE111]

alan cameron read the : electric cars are big shit !! who cares electric or not electric !! Pikes Peak is 20km long road not 200 and electric cars got 1465hp against 875hp from gasoline Peugeot!! max speed and acceleration and torque are same or on side of this electric cars but driver and quality and reliability are light years behind Loeb& Peugeot 208!! and that Tajima drives gasoline cars to for years who are (much)stronger than Peugeot like that Suzuki but he was almost 2 minutes behind Loeb!! Suzuki from Tajima few years ago had over 900hp . Japanese obviously is bad driver or he have bad car or both !! Loeb comes for first time in USA and Pikes Peak and set the time which everybody else can only dream no matter electric,gasoline or whatever engine they had !!

[@Mr11ESSE111]

ThePc Gamer you stupid fool without brain and without mighty Peugeout 208 1.6 HDI 92hp in your wooden garage,mwahahahha

[@Mr11ESSE111]

ThePc Gamer you stupid fool without brain and without mighty Peugeout 208 1.2 82hp in your wooden garage,mwahahahha

[@Mr11ESSE111]

ThePc Gamer and that nothing beat all american crap of cars and electric cars you stupid fool without brain and without mighty Peugeout 208 1.6 HDI 92hp in your wooden garage,mwahahahha

[@wallybatt]

But there is no melody of a well tuned race engine, electric has no soul 😭

[@saadaniyann]

Ridicule!

[@mihaicalin120]

the future of road cars ,should be electric ,NOT RACING!!!! ....depresing watching this video !!!!