Supercapacitors, not batteries, power this wild creation.Lamborghini is not known for bowing to convention. Ever since Ferruccio told Enzo Ferrari where he might stick his temperamental cars, and decided to make his own, it has been going its own method. This car inbuilt collaboration with Terzo Millennio & MIT , is incredibly much a Lamborghini approach to the eV performance automobile. to start with, it's obviously nothing else but a Lamborghini. This car concept could be a wild concept car touches aside, it's as wedgy & means as anything to come out of Sant'Agata (and definitely come out of Cambridge, MA!).
There's some advanced tech here, too, as you might imagine with MIT's involvement. the most notable is that the supercapacitor energy storage technology. Supercapacitors are not ready for primetime yet, being very costly and not quite as energy dense, though presently they are used in some niche automotive applications. but MIT and Lamborghini need to supply one that'll work more like a main battery, but with bigger ability to recharge and discharge quickly. that is ideal for brutal, explosive acceleration. If Lamborghini and MIT will build a breakthrough here, it'd let the decidedly conventional Lamborghinis of today (naturally aspirated, non-electrified) take a leap into the future on Lamborghini's own terms.
The company is also exploring carbon composite batteries utilizing nanotechnology, that the corporate claims would reduce weight and increase the discharge capability of the batteries. So, it seems, the Terzo Millennio may mix the 2 power storage technologies into the same drivetrain.
Of course, like most recent Lamborghinis there is all-wheel drive, though it's in-wheel electric motor-based rather than the conventional mechanical type. it would be simple enough to leave off the front motors for a Performante variant, perhaps. or even in-wheel electric motors become the norm within the future. It's too early to tell; for currently, this idea is AWD.
The body is carbon fiber, and this concept previews some technology that may detect degradation within the carbon fiber early and potentially repair it with something known as "nano-channels" utilizing a kind of the technology that permits carbon composite materials to store energy. This technology deserves more clarification than we've area for here, and we'll get a deep dive on that as shortly as we can.
Lastly, Lamborghini needs a vehicle just like the Terzo Millennio to sound like a Lamborghini. that will not be simple, since there is no V12 or V10 to be found. Frankly, the corporate does not even sound like they've found out how to solve that specific puzzle, stating that "[a] deep investigation is needed" to work out what it should sound like. that is no simple task, and we suspect the engineers are busy on it one.
Will you see a Terzo Millennio out on the road? almost definitely not; this can be a pure concept that shows the direction that Lamborghini can take in the future. a finally know where Sant'Agata's head is at in terms of post-internal combustion powertrain tech.
