Henry is back to his second favorite subject. (His favorite being Michigan Governor Whitmer)
It’s so easy to forget that engine noise is actually a bad thing, isn’t is? But not as bad a sustainability. What could be more evil than sustainability?
Henry can’t fathom the idea that in a race of electric cars, pit crews would have many batteries lines up and ready to be swapped out.
Payne works VERY HARD at not understanding that the goal of science and engineering is to make things work better and more efficiently. It’s a wonder he’s not drawing Model Ts.
E Racing already exists… it wouldn’t take much effort for Payne to find that out. They don’t recharge batteries. It isn’t silent – that many electric cars at the same time makes noise, not ear splitting, but it is loud. And, the audience doesn’t fall asleep. It is fast paced and fun.
Yes, there is nothing as important as the Daytona 500. I hear they are going to have eHelicopters to take people from cities to the airport. They will be smaller, avoid traffic and cut down on emissions. Payne will probably have a fit over this!!
Let’s Just Say (tm from another list) that Mustangs and Camaros leaving the high school parking lot, back in 1966, didn’t sound like the current models.
Hey Henry. Did you know electric vehicles are able to generate more torque than hydrocarbon vehicles. A lot more torque.
So, Henry, what that means is that they are FASTER than hydrocarbon vehicles. As in they would win shorter races in a fair competition. Soon, battery technology will increase ranges, and the hydrocarbon vehicles will slowly die out.
And when there is a crash, it could be worse than gas. It can take approximately 3,000 gallons (11,356 liters) of water, applied directly to the battery, to fully extinguish and cool down a battery fire; always establish or request an additional water supply.
Funny thing. I drive a Prius Prime. Fully charged it gets 25 miles on electric only, but it uses gas also, so I can drive to work and back. It also goes 0 to 60 in about 4 seconds. I’d wager an electric dragster could give a gas on a run for it’s money.
Back in the early "80’s a friend and I came up with a hybrid car that would be very competitive with most cars at the time. We were just getting over the gas shortages of the late "70’s when manufacturers were looking at making a more fuel efficient car. We had to end our endeavor after a visit from lawyers with threats. We had no available cash to pay defense lawyers and no one else wanted to take on the big boys.
Sustainable solar or wind energy are at best remote possibilities well beyond our current or foreseeable technologies. The energy required to produce them is more than they save. Your electric car probably needs a fossil fuel generator to charge its batteries. Wind turbines are costly, have a limited lifespan and require large amounts of lubricants to perform well. Some time down the line we will possibly find efficient ways to create more efficient technologies, and we should keep researching them. But, at this point it seems a bit premature and sort of like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
What is really funny, is race cars don’t have to be so loud to go fast. Sure there was a time not having an exhaust system may have been needed to effect the power to go faster, but those days are long gone. Especially, to effect the maximum speed allowed by Nascar. Not muffling the noise of the engines is more for the crowd, for effect, not for speed.
The annoying side effect is the idiots putting improper exhaust systems on their road vehicles. I really hope some day the police find it in themselves to wrack up some money by ticketing all the noise and pollution law violators.
Hint to any cops out there, the diesel pickups with stove pipes are violating emission laws like you wouldn’t believe.
Highly unlikely, but why get your panties all up in a wad over a sporting event? NASCAR is very slow to adopt new technology – it took it 18 years from when carburetors were no longer being sold on new cars before NASCAR allowed fuel injection… by the time NASCAR allows electric cars (if NASCAR even still exists) the batteries won’t need 25 minutes to recharge or can be replaced quickly during a pit stop.
Concretionist about 3 years ago
I’m sorry that Payne’s mostliest favoritest thing in all the world is going to be changing (for the better, imo) but that’s a fair price to pay.
Oh, and if they can’t figure out how to change out the battery bank in a few seconds, they DESERVE to lose.
Daeder about 3 years ago
Henry is back to his second favorite subject. (His favorite being Michigan Governor Whitmer)
It’s so easy to forget that engine noise is actually a bad thing, isn’t is? But not as bad a sustainability. What could be more evil than sustainability?
Henry can’t fathom the idea that in a race of electric cars, pit crews would have many batteries lines up and ready to be swapped out.
RAGs about 3 years ago
Payne works VERY HARD at not understanding that the goal of science and engineering is to make things work better and more efficiently. It’s a wonder he’s not drawing Model Ts.
Aliquid about 3 years ago
E Racing already exists… it wouldn’t take much effort for Payne to find that out. They don’t recharge batteries. It isn’t silent – that many electric cars at the same time makes noise, not ear splitting, but it is loud. And, the audience doesn’t fall asleep. It is fast paced and fun.
braindead Premium Member about 3 years ago
I can’t wait till the electric racing cars are self-driving.
Packratjohn Premium Member about 3 years ago
if you can’t accept the inevitable, you poke fun at it.
ikini Premium Member about 3 years ago
Do you think he would prefer that the drivers went back to using flammable materials and no seat harnesses so they can die fiery deaths again?
LookingGlass Premium Member about 3 years ago
Henry PAIN! Always rushing forward into the past!! Or is that rushing backwards into the future?? He’s so confused!!!
/SNARK/
Patjade about 3 years ago
Stupid Henry Payne and his ubiquitous, insipid car-toons.
Brian G Premium Member about 3 years ago
How does he not know about FIA Formula E? Oh wait, standard right wing extremist willful ignorance.
Radish the wordsmith about 3 years ago
Haven’t watched a car race in decades, its as boring as golf.
Ontman about 3 years ago
The spectator on the right is me enjoying a Payne cartoon.
gopher gofer about 3 years ago
moron…
sykerocker about 3 years ago
As a happy Chevrolet Bolt owner (I traded a Honda Civic Si on it) I’m laughing my ass off on this one. He’s obviously never watched Formula E.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 3 years ago
Yes, there is nothing as important as the Daytona 500. I hear they are going to have eHelicopters to take people from cities to the airport. They will be smaller, avoid traffic and cut down on emissions. Payne will probably have a fit over this!!
alex Coke Premium Member about 3 years ago
Nice cars!
Alberta Oil Premium Member about 3 years ago
Gonna have to crank up a lot of windmills to provide all that “E”. Already you are running out with brownouts every summer.
cracker65 about 3 years ago
Nascar is already so boring that it puts people in a coma. The sport is dead, except for a shrinking number of rednecks that still watch it.
fusilier about 3 years ago
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15117726/faking-it-engine-sound-enhancement-explained-tech-dept/
Let’s Just Say (tm from another list) that Mustangs and Camaros leaving the high school parking lot, back in 1966, didn’t sound like the current models.
fusilier
James 2:24
brwydave Premium Member about 3 years ago
Oh happy, happy day – a chance to draw four cars at once.
mikemck about 3 years ago
Your little world is changing Henry, get over it.
thelordthygod666 about 3 years ago
Hank is still bummed that he can longer wave his confederate flag at NASCAR races.
librarylady59 about 3 years ago
Ah, he dreams of the 20th century. I wonder if he has children… grandchildren.
Durak Premium Member about 3 years ago
Years ago every medium sized town had a horse racing track. It’s what they did. Times changed, Hank. You’re beating a dead horse, so to speak.
twclix about 3 years ago
Hey Henry. Did you know electric vehicles are able to generate more torque than hydrocarbon vehicles. A lot more torque.
So, Henry, what that means is that they are FASTER than hydrocarbon vehicles. As in they would win shorter races in a fair competition. Soon, battery technology will increase ranges, and the hydrocarbon vehicles will slowly die out.
Sorry Henry. I know truth is hard for you people.
Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe about 3 years ago
And when there is a crash, it could be worse than gas. It can take approximately 3,000 gallons (11,356 liters) of water, applied directly to the battery, to fully extinguish and cool down a battery fire; always establish or request an additional water supply.
https://www.firerescue1.com/firefighter-training/articles/tesla-on-fire-how-to-extinguish-an-electric-car-fire-n8dDvmqLHqggmoXr/
ChristopherBurns about 3 years ago
Funny thing. I drive a Prius Prime. Fully charged it gets 25 miles on electric only, but it uses gas also, so I can drive to work and back. It also goes 0 to 60 in about 4 seconds. I’d wager an electric dragster could give a gas on a run for it’s money.
And it wouldn’t be deafening.
Frankfreak about 3 years ago
Back in the early "80’s a friend and I came up with a hybrid car that would be very competitive with most cars at the time. We were just getting over the gas shortages of the late "70’s when manufacturers were looking at making a more fuel efficient car. We had to end our endeavor after a visit from lawyers with threats. We had no available cash to pay defense lawyers and no one else wanted to take on the big boys.
Otis Rufus Driftwood about 3 years ago
NASCAR could be the internal combustion engine’s last stand. I think we’ll see fewer and fewer people owning their own cars in the future.
Jack Dawson about 3 years ago
Sustainable solar or wind energy are at best remote possibilities well beyond our current or foreseeable technologies. The energy required to produce them is more than they save. Your electric car probably needs a fossil fuel generator to charge its batteries. Wind turbines are costly, have a limited lifespan and require large amounts of lubricants to perform well. Some time down the line we will possibly find efficient ways to create more efficient technologies, and we should keep researching them. But, at this point it seems a bit premature and sort of like throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member about 3 years ago
The clear air! The renewable resources! (Who could possibly love anything good for the planet?)
jqmcd about 3 years ago
Because racing cars is so vital to our very existence!
pamela welch Premium Member about 3 years ago
This is actually pretty funny! For folks who enjoy the noise and stink, I guess it would be quite the adjustment.
GiantShetlandPony about 3 years ago
What is really funny, is race cars don’t have to be so loud to go fast. Sure there was a time not having an exhaust system may have been needed to effect the power to go faster, but those days are long gone. Especially, to effect the maximum speed allowed by Nascar. Not muffling the noise of the engines is more for the crowd, for effect, not for speed.
The annoying side effect is the idiots putting improper exhaust systems on their road vehicles. I really hope some day the police find it in themselves to wrack up some money by ticketing all the noise and pollution law violators.
Hint to any cops out there, the diesel pickups with stove pipes are violating emission laws like you wouldn’t believe.
jhayesd31 about 3 years ago
Only in America is Rednecks making left turns a spectator sport.
ferddo about 3 years ago
Highly unlikely, but why get your panties all up in a wad over a sporting event? NASCAR is very slow to adopt new technology – it took it 18 years from when carburetors were no longer being sold on new cars before NASCAR allowed fuel injection… by the time NASCAR allows electric cars (if NASCAR even still exists) the batteries won’t need 25 minutes to recharge or can be replaced quickly during a pit stop.