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Meet the Si n, a limited-run evolutionary step of Lambo"s V12 lineage. It"s also the fastest and most powerful car to ever come out of Sant"Agata Bolognese. Yep, it"s official: Lambo has gone hybrid. But not as you"d imagine. As everyone else in Car World is starting to embrace smaller capacity engines, turbocharging and fully-electrified drivetrains, Lamborghini is still clinging onto its beloved 12 cylinders like Gollum"s precious. And not just clinging onto them, but juicing them with supercapacitor technology (jeez, that sounds cool) to make the fastest and most powerful Lamborghini ever. This sounds like our kind of progress. Let"s start with the name. Si n. It translates as flash of lightning" in Bolognese dialect. But with that funny squiggle, you may be thrown as how to say it. Sy-anne? See-an? Well, it"s pronounced Shh-ahnn". Sounds a bit like a receptionist at your local recruitment centre. In reality, it"s a lot more exciting than that having pinched tech from the Lamborghini Terzo Millennio. That was Lambo"s electric hypercar concept from a few years ago. A supercar from the third millennium, one built in conjunction with the brainiest of brainboxes from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Now some of its crazy tech has been distilled and drip-fed into the local recruitment centre receptionist sorry, we mean the Si n specifically the supercapacitors. The main advantages of supercapacitors compared with standard batteries is their ability to store up to 100 times more energy, their capacity to accept and deliver charge much faster and to tolerate many more charge and discharge cycles. In short, they"re lighter and more energy-dense than lithium-ion batteries.
Date written: 3 Sep 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16781
Meet the Si n, a limited-run evolutionary step of Lambo"s V12 lineage. It"s also the fastest and most powerful car to ever come out of Sant"Agata Bolognese. Yep, it"s official: Lambo has gone hybrid. But not as you"d imagine. As everyone else in Car World is starting to embrace smaller capacity engines, turbocharging and fully-electrified drivetrains, Lamborghini is still clinging onto its beloved 12 cylinders like Gollum"s precious. And not just clinging onto them, but juicing them with supercapacitor technology (jeez, that sounds cool) to make the fastest and most powerful Lamborghini ever. This sounds like our kind of progress. Let"s start with the name. Si n. It translates as flash of lightning" in Bolognese dialect. But with that funny squiggle, you may be thrown as how to say it. Sy-anne? See-an? Well, it"s pronounced Shh-ahnn". Sounds a bit like a receptionist at your local recruitment centre. In reality, it"s a lot more exciting than that having pinched tech from the Lamborghini Terzo Millennio. That was Lambo"s electric hypercar concept from a few years ago. A supercar from the third millennium, one built in conjunction with the brainiest of brainboxes from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Now some of its crazy tech has been distilled and drip-fed into the local recruitment centre receptionist sorry, we mean the Si n specifically the supercapacitors. The main advantages of supercapacitors compared with standard batteries is their ability to store up to 100 times more energy, their capacity to accept and deliver charge much faster and to tolerate many more charge and discharge cycles. In short, they"re lighter and more energy-dense than lithium-ion batteries.
Date written: 3 Sep 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 16781
