[VIDEO] Corvette E-Ray’s ‘Cyclone Turn’ is Mesmerizing

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[PIC] Corvette E-Ray's 'Cyclone Turn' is Mesmerizing


On Tuesday morning, we just happened to capture the 2024 Corvette E-Ray as it appeared on national television during the NBC Today Show in New York City. The Torch Red Corvette was shown on the ice rink at Rockefeller Center, and we noted at the time that the donuts captured on TV were sort of underwhelming because it appeared that the traction from the eAWD wasn’t allowing the car to spin.

Unfortunately for the television viewers, the Today Show cameras cut away just as the car was getting going. But others were able to capture Cody Bulkley’s mesmerizing spin which the Corvette team has dubbed the “Cyclone Turn.”

MotorTrend also saw clips of the spinning Corvette and reached out to Cody, who is a Chevrolet performance integration engineering specializing in eAWD chassis control integration. MotorTrend says that just a fancy title for saying that Cody worked on getting the E-Ray’s front electric motor to play with the LT2 V8 powering the rear wheels.

The “Cyclone Turn” originally came about during the Corvette E-Ray’s testing in northern Michigan after Cody did a few donuts in the snow during some down time. Following the live TV shot, Cody figured they would only have one more chance to put on a show on the ice rink. Here’s more from MotorTrend on the E-Ray’s Cyclone Turn:

Back during one of the Corvette team’s calibration forays in northern Michigan, also in garbage time at the end of a session, Cody did what any of us might do if they found themselves in a new, all-wheel-drive Corvette on an open snow surface: He ripped a few donuts. It was during that brief hoon that he discovered the Corvette could spin in place, essentially not moving in any direction, with all four tires rotating the car on its axis. He says during that initial try, he managed as many as six or so full rotations, having simply defeated the traction and stability controls, punched the gas, and steered into the the direction he wanted to spin. With its separately powered axles and near-centralized center of gravity, the Corvette E-Ray will pirouette in place.

Having never done more than a few rotations at a time, but figuring that the Corvette’s 70th anniversary deserved something special, he rolled into the throttle before leaving it pinned. The precise count, from one of his team members that looked on, of spins? “20 full rotations.” Indeed, from the video, the Corvette “cyclones” for around 30 seconds uninterrupted. Cody adds that the E-Ray started out with 100 percent battery, and the indicated charge had dropped to zero when he brought it to a stop. Remember, the Vette keeps some charge in reserve to maintain front-to-rear torque balance, though not at full power, so there is a limit, however soft, to how long an E-Ray can cyclone itself on a low-traction surface. It went from “100 percent to the bumper [the minimum charge level] in one sustained drift.” As if it needed pointing out, the battery’s duration isn’t much of a limit, anyway; “most people couldn’t do that without getting sick,” Cody says.


Source:
MotorTrend

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2 COMMENTS

  1. WHOOPEE! It can spin donuts without crashing into the curb or another car.until the battery goes dead after 30 seconds, I’m really impressed. Zoom Zoom

  2. Missed that because I don’t watch MSM propaganda. I am sure the only reason why they aired the story is that the Eray conforms to their fake climate change agenda. Watch “The Dimming” on YouTube produced by Geoengineeringwatch.org.

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