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**The RAESR Tachyon Speed: A Carbon Fiber, All-Electric Contender**

I'll admit it, I've been pretty hard on certain supercars lately. The Lykan HyperSport, the Devel Sixteen, and the SSC Tuatara have all caught my attention, but today my sights are set on a carbon fiber, funky-doored, all-electric contender in Donut's own backyard. It's called the RAESR Tachyon Speed.

**Claims and Features**

This full-size hot wheel built in an industrial park in California claims to have more horsepower than a Bugatti Veyron, with a top speed of over 240 miles per hour and the craziest number of them all - almost 4,000 foot pounds of torque. Yes, you read that right - 4,000 foot pounds of torque! RAESR is making promises that seem too good to be true.

**The Verdict: More Complicated Than You Think**

But is this thing actually legit? The answer is more complicated than you might think. When the RAESR Tachyon Speed actually gets released, it will face stiff competition in the supercar market. We'll take a closer look at just how feasible these claims are and what this car will be up against.

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I apologize for my voice being a little weird today - I went to a Mastodon show last night and it was awesome! Sorry, I digress.

**Background and Notability**

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WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Look, I'll admit it,I've been pretty hard oncertain supercars lately.The Lykan HyperSport, the Devel Sixteen,and the SSC Tuatara,but today my sights are seton a carbon fiber, funky doored,all electric contenderin Donut's own backyard.It's called the RAESR Tachyon Speed.This full-size hot wheel builtin an industrial park in Californiaclaims to have more horsepowerthan a Bugatti Veyron,a top speed of over 240 miles per hourand the craziest number of them all,almost 4,000 foot pounds of torque.4,000 foot pounds of torque.Is RAESR making promisesthat can't follow through on,or is this thing actually legit?The answer is more complicatedthan you might think.We're gonna take a look at justhow feasible these claims areand what this car will be up againstwhen it actually gets released.I apologize for my voicebeing a little weird.Last night, I went to a Mastodonshow and it was awesome.You might've heard ofthe RAESR Tachyon Speedbecause it was addedto "Forza Horizon 4" sometime last year.Gaming has always been a great wayfor people to find outabout rare or unique cars,especially when that caris really, really fast.And so when people got to drivethe digitized Tachyon Speedthat they had never seen before,Google searches spiked and forums lit upwith people trying to figureout how the heck to say RAESR,I'm still not sure that I'msaying it correctly myself.No matter how you say it,this thing looks rightat home in a video game.From the way the frontand back are spiked,to the crazy way the doors open,to the fact that thisis a tandem two-seater.YouTubers and car vloggerssuch as Supercar Blondiehave been given thegrand tour of this car.A few of them have even gotten to sitin the centralized driver's seatand putt it around a parking lot.And to do that, youhave to first use a key,except that this car doesn't have a key.It has the whole steeringwheel with built-in controlsfor the actuated doors, ride height,adjustability, and active aero.This car feels likeit's got a few gimmicksto make it feel like a race car,but this is where we start to seesome very familiar telltale signsthat something might be up.(intense music)For one, there's very littlefootage of this thing.RAESR had a couple of mediavisits to their headquarters,shot an EV commercial in the desert,and they've taken a few GoProswith them up a canyon. Cool.But besides that,we haven't seen much otherthan concourse eventsand we haven't seen anythingthat proves the Tachyon Speed's speed.It's nice to see this thingparked on Rodeo Drive,but what we really want tosee is on the track, right?And then there's the numbers claims.Half the media coverage ofthis car says 1600 horsepower,but anything more officialsays anything from 1200 and 1,250.That's a big difference.There's a whole EcoBoost Mustangsworth of discrepancy in there.And then finally, there'sthe outlandish claimof nearly 4,000 foot pounds of torque.That's more torque than a2020 Ford F-350 Power Stroke,a Ram 3500 with a Cummins Turbo Dieseland a Duramax Silverado combined.That would be a real achievementfor the team at RAESR, if it's true.But despite the limitedreal-world footage,despite the crazy number claimsand despite the ludicrous stylingthat makes it look like the initial designmust have been done with a crayon,I believe razor and here's why.Razor has a few things going for themthat cars like theLykan and Devel did not.One of the most important differencesis that the Tachyon is electric.Electric power is theabsolute wild west right now.(motor loudly whirs)- 60.130.Quarter mile.- Power delivery is growingmore and more each yearand when the idea for the Tachyon Speedwas conceived in 2014,a target of 1200 horsepoweractually seemed attainablefor an all electric car.Heck, Rimac had already doneit with the Concept One.And since then electric powerhas gotten even crazier.James did a D-list on this awhile agoand there's a handful ofelectric cars coming soonthat are chucking outover 1700 horsepower.Horsepower hasn't really beena limiting factor for electric carssince the days of theG-Wiz and the Nissan Leaf,the limiting factor has always been range.On their own website, RAESR admitsthat the Tachyon prototypehas a limited range of about 150 miles,but that the final car will have optionswith over 300 miles of range.But as far as the horsepowerclaims go, the math works out.The Tachyon uses six electric motors,two in the front and four in the rear.Each, they claim, arecapable of 300 horsepower.We add all that up andsubtract your parasitic losses,your voltage sag andyour inverter efficiency,then 1250 is still a conservative estimateand 300 horsepower permotor isn't a crazy claim.Standalone Tesla drive units are availablefor $10,000 each and makeabout 300 horsepower.Now I'm not sure exactly whatthe team at RAESR is using,but I'm sure it's capableto what I could findwithin five minutes of Googling.So at least the claim of 1250is within the realm of possibility.But making cars is a lot harderthan just sticking amotor in a chassis, right?Well, RAESR actually has a lot lessto do than you might think.One thing that really makes Tachyonmore of a possibility than a pipe dreamis that it is a street legal carthat is not designed for luxury.It's designed for the track.When a small team is designinga car like the Tachyonit helps that they don't have to thinkabout infotainment or noisevibration and harshnessor that pesky littlething called cargo space.The Tachyon is built on achromoly tube frame chassiscovered in carbon fiber,not unlike the Altimaniacthat we covered on B2B a few months ago.When you look at what someof the custom shops can dofor drift, time attack and drag racing,building a track car from the ground updoesn't actually seem that far off.Remember the steering wheelkey thing that they had?Well, from what I can tell,they're using a MOMOsteering wheel with somethinglike a Haltech digitaldash mounted in the center.That's honestly not too unheard ofand is pretty standardfare for say a GT3 car.This is basically an offthe shelf quick releasewith some custom fab work and programming.Now, at this point,they sound more like a raceshop than a manufacturer.And that is one of the thingsthat I think makes this car feasible.If they're selling this as atrack only non-road legal toy,I would have even less doubtsabout them delivering a finished product.And honestly, I bet the red tapeof making this thingroad legal, is a big partof why we haven't seen muchprogress on it in five years.But what about theirmost outlandish claim,the 4,000 foot pounds of torque?Well, it turns out it wouldn'tbe hard for them to be right.During the 2020 super bowl,GMC revealed a brand new Hummer EV,and also some people played football.The all new electric off-roadertore through the desertwhile big numbers filled the screen.11,500 foot pounds of torque.That's more than a topfuel dragster makes,and GMC is gonna sell that to the public?It sounded too good to be true.And then the following few weeks,many people who are better at math than meexplained that it was too good to be true.But it boils down to this,when manufacturers listhorsepower and torque of a car,they list the power at thecrank shaft of the engine.For horsepower, it's a higher numberthan what is read at the wheelsbecause of the parasiticlosses of the powertrain.For torque, those losses apply too,but since torque is allabout turning force,it also gets multipliedby the gear ratios in the drive train.If I was taller and morehandsome, like Jeremiah,I could get way more intothis topic, but for now,we'll just say that ifyou ever go to a dyno,person running the dyno needsto know your gear ratios andfinal drive and even wheel sizeto get an accurate torque reading.But EVs do not have all those gears,they have what is called direct drive.So the motors aren't goingthrough the same torque multiplicationthat an internal combustion engine car is.Staying with me? Good.So EV makers have been kind of stuckwhen it comes to advertising torque.Do they list the motor torque,which is an unremarkable numberand doesn't really representa feel of what most EVs can dowith that instant torque delivery,or do they show thenumbers in a different way?The Hummer EV's 11,500foot pounds of torqueis most likely wheel torque.The amount of turning forcethat one of those 35 inch tires has,not the torque of the output shaft.The Tesla Roadster may have alsoadvertised it's torque this waywith a whopping 7,000 foot pounds.Not really disclosing that at the motor,that's probably closer to like 800.That's still very impressive.So if we take this reasoningand apply it to the Tachyon,you can see how 4,000 foot poundswouldn't be that bold of a claimif it's a measurement of wheel torque.Wheel torque is real torque.How about that?But numbers on a specsheet only means so muchif you're selling yourcar as a track weapon.And there's more tobuilding a good track carthan just giving it a bunchof power and Alcantara.There's a lot of work thatgoes into aerodynamicssuspension geometry, weightdistribution, mechanical grip,the list goes on and on,and it used to be that youcouldn't really get that dialedwithout a wind tunnel, testtrack and lots of money,but this is 2022 we're living in.And while we still haven't figured outhow to solve world hungeror keep PS5s in stock,testing and building a track carhas gotten a lot easierto do without a big team,just need some computer skills.The Tachyon and went through developmentusing computational fluiddynamics or CFD testing.While a true wind tunnelmight be more refined,CFD testing is basicallya digital wind tunnelfor a computer model.And since the car was designed using CAD,it was easy to adjust thedesign to make the aero workbefore even manufacturing asingle piece, how convenient.The bodywork is mostly carbon fiber,which at one time was a rarefied material.But today carbon fiber is socommon that you can learn howto make carbon fiberpieces from YouTube videos.Now it takes a lot more skillthan a few Google searchesand a DIY kit to make a full tub,but compared to what it used to be,I can't say I find it hard to believe.All this kind of goes to show how muchthe industry has advancedeven in the last 20 yearsand a company like RAESR could bein just the right spot to take advantage.RAESR is a small companywith an ambitious goal,but that doesn't meanthey can't be successful.Just looking at a company like Noble,a small supercar makerin the UK that set outto build dream drivers carsand ended up building the M600,which became a favoriteof the "Top Gear" guysand a revered supercar in its own right.This is one of my dream cars.So there's a precedent for a small teamwith a big idea making it work.But what about the whole 1600 horsepowerversus 1200 horsepower thing?I'm gonna give RAESRthe benefit of the doubt on this one.I bet that 1600 horsepowerwas the original goaland then they pivotedto something more manageableduring the prototype process.Honestly, that's just so much horsepower,how would you even tell the difference?So after going through everythingthat RAESR claims theTachyon Speed can do,I'm pretty convincedthat they could deliveron what they say, but I fearthat by the time they do,EV Supercars will be anotherorder of magnitude fasterand that's the biggest problem.EV tech is moving so fast, maybe too fastfor a small shop to keep up.The Lotus Evija, RimacNevera and the Tesla Roadsterall make the Tachyon Speed looka little less impressive on paperand if RAESR stillhasn't gone in productionby the time those cars launch,I'm not seeing as many peoplespend their hard-earned moneyon maybe a less impressive carbuilt by a less established companyfor probably more money.There's still some thingsthat I didn't get to touch onand I'm a little wary of.RAESR says they'll haveall-wheel drive torque vectoring,which sounds like a prettyadvanced thing to design.I don't know. It might be outsidethe scope of a small shop.But I'd love to giveour neighbors a chanceto put me in my place.RAESR, Eric, Chris, ifyou're watching this,we'd love the opportunityto see what your car can do.- Hey dogs, stop wearinglayers upon layersof Yota's Tacos t-shirts this winter,just buy the all new Yota'sTacos hoodie and sweat pants.They're exactly like the shirtexcept thicker and with a hoodand a fun draw string and pants.get yours today at DonutMedia.com.Don't be a chilly Billy be a warm Norm.♪ Stay nice and warm ♪♪ At Yota's Tacos ♪- Also, I just want to let you guys know,we did reach out to RAESR multiple timesto get more help on this video.They did answer a lot of our questions.We did want to visit their shop,but I think it was likea scheduling thing.What do you guys think?Can a small companyreally build a supercar?Let me know in the comments,what do you think of EVs in general?The more I drive, the more I like them.Follow me @nolanjsykeson all social media.Sorry about my voice, Ifeel like it got better.Be kind. I'll see you next time.