Customers are beginning to take deliveries of the all-new Corvette E-Ray. As is custom with all-new efficiency automobiles, somebody has already strapped it to a dyno to see how a lot energy it truly has. That somebody is Paragon Performance with its all-wheel-drive dyno. Well, it seems the E-Ray makes a hell of much more energy (particularly torque) than Chevrolet says it does.
Chevy says a inventory Corvette E-Ray makes 655 horsepower and 592 lb-ft of torque from its mid-mounted 6.2-liter naturally aspirated LT2 V8 and entrance axle-mounted electrical motor. Those are each wholesome numbers, however Paragon Performance discovered they might have been a little bit of an understatement. Their C8 E-Ray apparently made 573 horsepower and 630 lb-ft of torque on the wheels. Now, that 573 quantity is correct in keeping with what Chevy says when you take into account a 15-ish p.c drivetrain loss, however goddamn that torque quantity.
630 lb-ft of torque on the wheels. I do know electrical motors don’t have a ton of drivetrain loss, so let’s simply say — for argument’s sake — the E-Ray is barely dropping like eight p.c of its energy between the motor and the bottom. Even nonetheless, that engine setup is producing over 700 lb-ft of torque. That’s monstrous, and it actually explains how this factor will get from 0-60 mph in 2.5 seconds.
These numbers are much more spectacular compared with the common Corvette Stingray. I’ll let Paragon Performance break it down:
Compared to a C8 Corvette Stingray this is a rise of 135+ whp & 210+ lb ft of TQ, all because of the entrance motors powered by a 1.9 kWh battery, 1.1 kWh which is usable. As anticipated with an electrical motor, the torque is instantaneous and the ability holds till the batteries are discharged relatively rapidly.
Apparently, Paragon Performance has determined this isn’t fairly sufficient energy, so it’s making a change. The firm says this E-Ray is now on its method to Lingenfelter Performance Engineering in Michigan so it may be fitted by with TVS2650 supercharger. This factor goes to be a monster. We’ll undoubtedly be following together with this construct.
Source: jalopnik.com