Corvette C8 - Finally a mid-engined Corvette

[retsmah]

I had watched MKBHD's video, went back to look at that and he says "maybe 5 seconds" but in the video he's doing a voiceover on it seems like it's maybe 2 to 2.5 seconds to go from the start of the transition to the screen saying "transition complete", and then another couple seconds after that for the dash to then do whatever switch it needed to do. His video doesn't have any audio though at that point so you can't really hear when the engine turns on, I'd expect it when the screen says transition complete but I don't know for sure.

Anyway, sort of splitting hairs, but 2 seconds seems ok, 5 seconds seems like a long time!

The old videos of the the Toyota TS030 firing up it's gas engine I think are my gold standard of electric to gas operation!

[Rare White Ape]

The old videos of the the Toyota TS030 firing up it's gas engine I think are my gold standard of electric to gas operation!

There are more videos available now. Similar thing but newer.

According to the below video (thanks Keef!) the IMSA GTP hybrids were limited to only 3 seconds of full electric power when exiting their pit stalls, but that was changed to remove the limit in case a car baulked for some reason and need to re-launch. Now they're allowed to use full electric along the whole of pit lane (entry and exit) if they want, but the most likely scenario is just using it on launch from the pit box until they get to the speed limit.



(Funny part early in the video when Marshall Pruett mentions 'silent' launches from pit lane, meanwhile the car in the background is going REEEEEEEEEEEEEE! on its electric motor )