If you are talking daily drivers, you are right. Talking true track cars? No.
There are very real limits to how much power you can put through a stator at a given speed and voltage, due to back emf issue. You need complex switched mode power supplies to boost battery voltage as motor speed increases. Maybe one day solid state semiconductor switches will reach into that territory, but it isn’t there yet, and I don’t see it for years.
The piston engine is much more dynamic, and much less fussy, more fuel and air, more power. Simple blocks, Rods, valves, cams, pistons and bearings are easier and cheaper to replace if something starts to bend, and they tend to be able to take much more dynamic load than a copper wire. So people tend to push them much harder, and it’s easier to push them harder (said equipment above for emachines is not cheap, and it’s complex).
Also driver safety in a race car. Plasma is a lot hotter than burning gasoline or alcohol, or even burning nitromethane in open air. Which would I like to get hit by in a fire suit? I’ll take oxidizing fuel on a fire suit over vaporized metal plasma or a continuous or even half second multimegawatt arc anyday of the week.
Remember, 1334hp is just over a megawatt. Plenty of built GM LS, Coyote and Chrysler HEmi motors turning that nowdays in entry level track cars.
“There are very real limits to how much power you can put through a stator at a given speed and voltage, due to back emf issue. “
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“The piston engine is much more dynamic, and much less fussy, more fuel and air, more power. Simple blocks, Rods, valves, cams, pistons and bearings are easier and cheaper to replace if something starts to bend, and they tend to be able to take much more dynamic load than a copper wire. So people tend to push them much harder, and it’s easier to push them harder (said equipment above for emachines is not cheap, and it’s complex).”
Somehow you have managed to take the piston engine disadvantages and turn them into advantages!
“Remember, 1334hp is just over a megawatt. Plenty of built GM LS, Coyote and Chrysler HEmi motors turning that nowdays in entry level track cars.”
But not in NASCAR!