{"id":3986,"date":"2021-03-26T13:39:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T13:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1344551"},"modified":"2021-03-26T13:39:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T13:39:57","slug":"watch-this-1-2m-supercar-ev-drift-on-ice-like-a-ballerina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=3986","title":{"rendered":"Watch this $1.2M supercar EV drift on ice like a ballerina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/shift?filter_last=1&amp;fit=1280%2C640&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2021%2F03%2Fdrako-ev-expensive-car-drift-future-slide-.png&amp;signature=ac29f3d04a4d6a697af6c4bae20906cf\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>When Silicon Valley billionaires Dean Drako and Shiv Sikand couldn\u2019t find an electric vehicle that they actually wanted to buy, they did what anyone in their position would have done: they made their own.<\/p>\n<p>Let me introduce you to the Drako GTE. Its name makes it sound like it\u2019s some kind of Bond villain, and boy does it drive like one.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent video, the company took a pre-production model out to a frozen lake in Colorado, at 8,500 feet above sea level. The thin air would have strangled a combustion engine, but it wasn\u2019t a problem for the Drako\u2019s 1,200 hp electric motors.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3ezn0mqta5g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><br \/>Drako also showed of its $1.2 million car\u2019s ability to drift with poetic elegance, thanks to it having a motor at every wheel.<\/p>\n<p>This allows it to perfectly balance torque delivery, and also pirouette on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s composed, calm, and all very cool.<\/p>\n<p>The Drako is likely to be one of the rarest EVs around, with only 25 set to be produced. Would I take this over a fleet of Tesla Roadsters? You bet.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><i><span>Do EVs excite your electrons? Do ebikes get your wheels spinning? Do self-driving cars get you all charged up?&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Then you need the weekly SHIFT newsletter in your life. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/share.hsforms.com\/1YPSj53mFQtSeGzy8o72bsw47gef\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><i><span>Click here to sign up<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\"> Published March 26, 2021 \u2014 13:39 UTC <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/shift\/2021\/03\/26\/watch-1-2m-supercar-ev-drift-on-ice\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Silicon Valley billionaires Dean Drako and Shiv Sikand couldn\u2019t find an electric vehicle that they actually wanted to buy, they did what anyone in their position would have done: they made&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}