Nunzio La Vecchia accepts the TÜV registration Nunzio La Vecchia accepts the TÜV registration A look inside the Quant e-Sportlimousine prototype at the Geneva Motor Show The car's illuminated interior represents the flow of energy at work in driving its motors
As I stood around waiting for NanoFlowcell's Geneva Motor Show press conference in March, my eyes bounced back and forth in between the exotic curves of the idea vehicle at center dais, the oddly punctuated letters from the make and model and the bubbling tanks of water that looked like they had been ripped off the wall of an after-hours lounge. Then Nunzio La Vecchia sauntered out, wearing his best jet black pompadour, and made a bunch of bold claims concerning the 912-hp, gull-winged 2x2 and its bleeding-edge flow cell technologies.
Every thing concerning the scene suggested that it might extremely well happen to be the last we heard of the NanoFlowcell Quant e-Sportlimousine. Promises of a magic bullet of power storage, produced by a three-month-old company, packaged with outlandish numbers like 0-62 mph (one hundred km/h) in two.eight seconds and a top speed of 236 mph (380 km/h), hinted, rather strongly, that this car's technologies and performance would only exist on paper. Given that a similarly outlandish Quant vehicle, centered inside a similar black-walled booth, introduced by a really various Nunzio La Vecchia company, had vaporized years earlier, it seemed a responsible assumption that the e-Sportlimousine would do the same.
"We are delighted as pioneers to be in a position to present an automobile driven by flow cell technology on public roads, and one which achieves not just fantastic overall performance values but also zero emissions," said Le Vecchia, tossing out a slightly revised set of numbers, such as "a projected leading speed of more than 350 km/h (217.five mph), acceleration from 0-100 in 2.eight seconds, a torque of 4 occasions 2,900 Nm (two,139 lb-ft) and a range of greater than 600 km (373 mi)."The flow cell method powering the Quant e-Sportlimousine's 4 electric motors develops electrical energy from an electrochemical reaction produced by two electrolyte solutions. This electricity is forwarded to super capacitors where its stored and distributed.
Beyond fancy supercars, NanoFlowcell sees its technology taking on a number of applications. Presumably it will function its way down to much more inexpensive cars, but its perceived possible reaches far beyond the road's edge.
We'll wait to determine the Quant e-Sportlimousine reside up to its billing prior to we get as well excited about that future expansion.
