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Written by Vijay Pattni
The humble motor car and its place in our society has been having a bit of an identity crisis of late. Electric and hybrid cars and our inevitable march towards robotised, self-driving boredom dominate the landscape. Sometimes, it can get a bit depressing.Step forward Lamborghini, who clearly got this worldwide memo for sustainable motoring and immediately hit delete". For this new concept car, dubbed the Lamborghini Terzo Millennio", is quite simply nuts. The best kind of nuts, mind.Some context. A year ago, Lamborghini teamed up with the vaunted Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to build something that would "rewrite the rules on super sports cars" for the third millennium (that"s the Terzo Millennio" bit). A car that future generations of apex-enthusiasts could stick a poster of on their bedroom walls.Job done, we suspect.The Millennio intends to do away with normal batteries, MIT instead looking into the use of supercapacitors for power. The next step is to develop a pack able to give lots of peak power, regenerate, and have limited degradation over the car"s lifetime. The collaboration with MIT aims to "overcome the limits of today"s technology and close the gap on conventional batteries" energy density". Some talk of thinking outside the box" has been deployed.Whatever form this supercapacitor power comes from, it"ll be allied to a four-wheel-drive, four-motor setup, with a motor in each wheel. This, says Lamborghini, allows for lots of torque and moving energy by wire. Not only that, but putting motors in wheels means "freedom for designers and aerodynamicists".
Date written: 6 Nov 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 9854
The humble motor car and its place in our society has been having a bit of an identity crisis of late. Electric and hybrid cars and our inevitable march towards robotised, self-driving boredom dominate the landscape. Sometimes, it can get a bit depressing.Step forward Lamborghini, who clearly got this worldwide memo for sustainable motoring and immediately hit delete". For this new concept car, dubbed the Lamborghini Terzo Millennio", is quite simply nuts. The best kind of nuts, mind.Some context. A year ago, Lamborghini teamed up with the vaunted Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to build something that would "rewrite the rules on super sports cars" for the third millennium (that"s the Terzo Millennio" bit). A car that future generations of apex-enthusiasts could stick a poster of on their bedroom walls.Job done, we suspect.The Millennio intends to do away with normal batteries, MIT instead looking into the use of supercapacitors for power. The next step is to develop a pack able to give lots of peak power, regenerate, and have limited degradation over the car"s lifetime. The collaboration with MIT aims to "overcome the limits of today"s technology and close the gap on conventional batteries" energy density". Some talk of thinking outside the box" has been deployed.Whatever form this supercapacitor power comes from, it"ll be allied to a four-wheel-drive, four-motor setup, with a motor in each wheel. This, says Lamborghini, allows for lots of torque and moving energy by wire. Not only that, but putting motors in wheels means "freedom for designers and aerodynamicists".
Date written: 6 Nov 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 9854
