It seems a very impressive combination indeed. Those astounding AltairNano nano titanate "betteries" keep coming up here, hopefully we will see them soon in an actual product.
Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen A. Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 5:13 PM Subject: [Vo]:The Lightning: Electric car with wheel motors, nano-titanate batteries >I hadn't heard of this one until I stumbled across it while looking for > something else in Google. It's a high end niche car but none the less I > thought it was interesting. > > Wheel motors, used on all electric locomotives, have, as far as I know, > never been used on a car (in recent memory, at least). Apparently the > reason is weight at the wheels. The Lightning, which isn't /quite/ on > the market yet, is supposed to use a new design of wheel motor with far > better power/weight ratio than previous engines. Of course it has > electric 4wd as a result, and along with nano titanate batteries from > Altair Nano, it achieves amazing performance and astonishing range and > breathtakingly short recharge times and all that good stuff electric > sportscar manufacturers like to talk about, for a price of less than > 200,000 pounds Sterling. > > Here's a story on it: > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main.jhtml?xml=/motoring/2007/09/01/nosplit/mflight01.xml > > http://tinyurl.com/2vun4k >
