On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 21:10:41 +0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom wrote:

A pal of mine is hosting one of the TT Zero teams for this year's
competition.

Surely there is some compensation payment involved in the agreement
for them being hosted by your pal?

They're developing very rapidly currently and are at present capable of
putting out 160bhp for 37.75 miles (one lap) at least (on a good day
anyway). Some online calculator I've tried states this is equal to about
120kW but that seems like an awful lot to me ...

Electricty is billed by the energy consumed (kWHr) not the power (kW
or bhp).

So how long does that 37.75 mile lap take 'em to do? google 23'22"

Are the bikes *really* pushing out 160bhp *all* that time?

Lets find a fag packet and make some gross assumptions.

160 bhp is 160 * 0.745 = 119.2 kW

Use energy at that power level for 23'22" (0.39 hrs) it would be
46.48 kWhr. 50% effcient? Call it 100 kWhr of energy @ 15p/unit = 15
squid per charge cycle.

How many charge cycles were there?

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Cheers
Dave.