I often think about what will happen to autocross, road racing and drag racing when hydrocarbon combustion no longer makes sense and no longer has any substantial connection to the real automotive world. I personally would like to think it will continue to exist, but in a different, cleaner form. Nascent organizations such as NEDRA seem to suggest that this will happen, and indeed may be happening already — we may in fact be seeing the first hints of a new age of motorsport dawning before us right now. It’s one of the inspirations behind the Ohmbre project.

Apparently, some folks in Korea are thinking the same thing. Futurist designers at Hyundai have drawn up a concept they’re calling the Greenspeed Gator, running on hydrogen fuel cells. While I can’t resist commenting that I believe them to be barking up the wrong tree as far as fuel cells are concerned, that will all be revealed in time. Whether I’m right or wrong, the important point is that it doesn’t really matter. Clean, quiet electric power is the key here.

I look forward to the day when the general public is aware of how fun electric drag racing events can be. Where power and speed are all that matters — not the pointless, ear-damaging noise or huge flames, or the mist of unburned alcohol burning spectators’ eyes. Just the sound of barking tires, and the sight of a car rocketing down the track on clean renewable energy.