Lamborghini Unveils a Self-Healing Electric Supercar
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The next generation of Lamborghinis could act as their own superpowered batteries and be able to repair themselves.
Automobili Lamborghini unveiled its Terzo Millennio
(“third millennium”) concept car at the EmTech conference in Cambridge,
Mass., on Monday. The car is the product of the first 12 months of a
three-year partnership between the automaker and the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
True
to Lamborghini tradition, the car has a lean, windswept design and the
brand’s trademark Y taillights. The windshield seems to extend from the
top of the car almost to the driver’s toes, and the body crouches so low
it almost looks like an outgrowth of the road.
But the most remarkable aspects of the car are invisible—not least because they don’t exist yet.
Source: Lamborghini
Lamborghini
plans to develop supercapacitors that can provide the fast and intense
energy needed to power a supercar—and would allow for all-electric
models. The lithium-ion batteries in today’s electric cars release
energy more slowly and run down over repeated charges because they
depend on chemical reactions. Supercapacitors store energy physically
and don’t generate the heat of lithium-ions, but as of yet they don’t
offer as much power. The technology is currently used in hybrid
vehicles, but for limited functions like getting stopped engines going
again.
“A lot of the innovation that came and made its way into
consumer cars started with things like Formula 1 and supercars,” says
Mircea Dinca, an associate professor of chemistry at MIT, whose lab is
one of two working with the car maker. “I think that if Lamborghini—and
we—deliver on this promise, it will be really cool for the future of all
transportation.”
Source: Lamborghini
Lamborghini
also intends to make the supercapacitors out of carbon fiber panels
that can be used to form the body of the car—so the Terzo Millennio
draws energy from its own body. In other words: the car itself is the battery.
Moreover,
the concept promises a car that will be able to continuously monitor
the condition of its own structure, detecting wear and damage.
Micro-channels containing “healing chemistries” in the carbon fiber body
will automatically repair small cracks that would otherwise spread.
To top—or, more accurately, bottom—it all off, the company
will develop in-wheel electric motors, which would eliminate the need
for a single large engine.
Source: Lamborghini
“Collaborating
with MIT for our R&D department is an exceptional opportunity to do
what Lamborghini has always been very good at—rewriting the rules on
super sports cars,” said Stefano Domenicali, chairman and CEO of
Automobili Lamborghini.
Lamborghini got its start in the 1960s in
Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy, when Ferruccio Lamborghini, a tractor maker
who had become a wealthy industrialist, decided he wanted to top
Ferrari. Today it is part of Volkswagen Group, and its cars start at
around $200,000. There is no price guidance nor timeline on the Terzo
Millennio—a production model will not be available for years, if it ever
gets there. But affordability isn’t really a concept we can see
Lamborghini exploring.
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