In a few years, EVs will completely own drag racing. Range may be a problem, but this is a motorsport where you only need to go a quarter mile or so. You simply can’t beat 100% torque and horsepower at 0rpm. No internal combustion engine can hope to touch the acceleration potential that EVs have.
I think the only reasons they haven’t already taken over are:
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Ignorance. Traditional drag racing culture is not… shall we say…a forward thinking group of people. They have…. opinions…. about EVs and the people who drive them. This blinds to them to their incredible performance in this area.
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Governing body regulations. I used to do endurance racing, and while not well suited for current EVs, the series I ran in was looking to include them. The problem is the fire safety crews need to be trained and have the equipment for lithium fires, and the track insurance needs to account for them. Safety technology has a little ways to as well. Like, you can’t buy an easy fire crew kill switch off the shelf for an EV like you can for ICE. Those wheels of bureaucracy turn slowly and the various racing series are all still trying to figure this out. A lot of tracks still don’t allow them at all because the operators are scared of them. That’s changing for the better quickly though.
