If you think that going green in transportation is like doing acupuncture or tasting nasty medicine, well you’re wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. You are sooooo wrong. If you think by going green with an electric vehicle you can say good-bye to tinkering in your garage with your hot rod, you are wrong again. I bet you didn’t think you would be happy about being wrong about anything. Let me tell you, you’re going to be happy about being wrong now.
For the last 9 years the Electric Vehicle Association of Washington, DC, together with the National Electric Drag Racing Association have been putting together a show in Hagerstown, Maryland of what insaniac, electric gear heads can put together in their garages. In the past we have had Brigham Young University’s ultra-capacitor powered EV1, West Virginia University’s Electric Lightning Formula car, Shawn Lawless’s Orange Juice dragster and much more. There is no way to describe the event. It’s like mad science meets speed obsessed automotive engineering. You have got to come and see it.
The Power of DC combines two days of intense electric vehicle racing exhilaration, which includes an autocross event on Saturday June 5, 2010, followed by drag racing at the Mason-Dixon Dragway on Sunday June 6. The autocross is set up, monitored and sanctioned by the SCCA (Sports Car Club of America), while the drag race is sanctioned by the NEDRA (National Electric Drag Racing Association)
The Power of DC has become a premier racing event garnering national and international attention. In 2005 the Discovery Channel of Canada did a long segment on the event. In 2008 the Planet Green Discovery Channel’s G Word show devoted an entire segment to the Power of DC. Check it out at the link here http://www.youtube.com/
The media attention has been building every year and this June’s event is set to attract the most attention ever. How can we say this? Because this year, some of the most famous racers from across the country have already promised that they will be coming to the race. Probably the most famous name in electric drag racing is the John Wayland’s White Zombie. Bill Dube’s Killacycle is the quickest electric motorcycle on record, and though we haven’t received a promise from him to come to the event, this year there is an East Coast rival that could give the Killacycle a run for its money. Jeff Disinger’s Predator drag bike has been putting down times in practice runs pretty close to those of the Killacycle, and would have probably set a record at the last Power of DC if he hadn’t blown a motor two days before the race. Bringing the Killacycle east and having it go head to head with the Predator could just be the electric motorcycle drag race of the decade. Another reason we believe that Power of DC #10 will be the biggest and bestest EV racing event ever is that competition among university engineering departments has been heating up as well. West Virginia, James Madison and Brigham Young Universities have all brought vehicles in the past and James Madison and Brigham Young both went home with NEDRA records. I am sure that the students and professors are all itching to be at the event again.
OK. So you can see that this event is big and getting bigger and you can see that it attracts a lot of attention. This creates a problem for us because big events like this one cost a lot of money to run, but it also represents an opportunity for organizations looking to get attention that an event like this generate. By becoming a sponsor of Power of DC you not only get associated with an event that will have local, national and even international attention, but electric vehicles are considered really green. And green is really, really in these days. Becoming a sponsor of the Power of DC is easy. Just visit our sponsor page (http://www.powerofdc.com/
Chip Gribben is the event organizer and can be reached at 301-490-0657 or cell at 240-687-1678 or email at futurev@radix.net. Please put Power of DC Sponsor in the subject line. Thank you.
