{"id":9323,"date":"2014-10-04T10:13:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T17:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=9323"},"modified":"2014-10-04T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T17:13:57","slug":"motor-inside-every-formula-e-racer-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/motor-inside-every-formula-e-racer-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The motor inside every Formula E Racer Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">In this YouTube video, Robert Llewellyn visits the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mclaren.com\/appliedtechnologies\/\">McLaren Technology Centre<\/a> to talk to Peter van Manen about the motor that McLaren developed in the last four years and that is now in every Formula E racer.\u00a0 (Next year, other motors and car designs will enter the fray, but the current effort is exciting enough for now.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"INSIGHT - Formula E and McLaren\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sKF-xwsZqs8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One thing stands out: 26 kilograms (57.2 pounds) for 225 horsepower.\u00a0 That\u2019s almost four horsepower per pound.\u00a0 Compare that to the average of about two pounds per horsepower on a modern aircraft engine and marvel at the 8:1 power density ratio between McLaren\u2019s motor and what we fly behind today.<\/p>\n<p>Old-school aircraft design wisdom said that for every pound of engine weight one could lose, one could reduce airframe weight by two pounds.\u00a0 Even granted the additional weight required for propeller speed reduction, what does this portend for a truly radical future for light aircraft design?<\/p>\n<div id=\"facebook_like\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fcafe.foundation%2Fblog%2Fmotor-inside-every-formula-e-racer-today%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=500&amp;action=like&amp;font=segoe+ui&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:500px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this YouTube video, Robert Llewellyn visits the McLaren Technology Centre to talk to Peter van Manen about the motor that McLaren developed in the last four years and that is now in every Formula E racer.\u00a0 (Next year, other motors and car designs will enter the fray, but the current effort is exciting enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[5487,5485,5484,5486],"class_list":["post-9323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-electric_powerplants","category-sustainable_ga","tag-formula-e","tag-mclaren-technology-centre","tag-peter-van-manen","tag-robert-llewellyn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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