<story><title>Electric fan car shatters the Goodwood hill climb record</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/watch-an-electric-fan-car-shatter-the-goodwood-hill-climb-record</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jccalhoun</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m no expert on cars but according to this article it seems like a &amp;quot;fan car&amp;quot; uses fans to pull air in from under the car to create down force rather than as a primary means of propulsion. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;electrek.co&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;watch-electric-fan-car-record-goodwood-hill-climb&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;electrek.co&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;watch-electric-fan-car-record...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MrFoof</author><text>Exactly this.  One of the bigger “fans” of them — Gordon Murray — is actually producing a road legal one.  The T.50, which is Gordon Murray’s attempt to “revisit” the McLaren F1 and do everything he couldn’t do (or hadn’t yet realized was possible) back in the 1990s:  &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;NT8PMXCMrsM&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;NT8PMXCMrsM&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;For those who aren’t aware, Harry Metcalfe was the founder of EVO magazine and had an outsized behind the scenes influence of Top Gear’s new format in the early 2000s.  While Gordon sticks to some of his script, the two get VERY nerdy at points digging into all sorts of non-obvious minutiae and detail.  53 minutes is a lot, but by far it’s the best interview about the car by a large margin.&lt;p&gt;Harry is also a very big EV and renewable electricity nerd, and loves digging into those topics with tons of research.</text></comment>
<story><title>Electric fan car shatters the Goodwood hill climb record</title><url>https://www.thedrive.com/news/watch-an-electric-fan-car-shatter-the-goodwood-hill-climb-record</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jccalhoun</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m no expert on cars but according to this article it seems like a &amp;quot;fan car&amp;quot; uses fans to pull air in from under the car to create down force rather than as a primary means of propulsion. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;electrek.co&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;watch-electric-fan-car-record-goodwood-hill-climb&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;electrek.co&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;26&amp;#x2F;watch-electric-fan-car-record...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>eptcyka</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s exactly right, the term usually refers to cars that use fans to generate vacuum for better grip rather than propulsion to go faster. Cars today can easily go super fast in a straight line, the hard bit is putting that power down in corners.</text></comment>