New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. 286. When this also happens to be a radical gas turbine-electric supercar, it would be deemed an extremely ambitious project for a global OEM, let alone a small, independent carmaker from Somerset.Throw in the small matter of 1,180bhp, four-wheel drive and a physics-defying 0-100mph claim of 3.8 seconds and you’d be forgiven for thinking the concept had been plucked from the realms of fantasy. This should give about 15 minutes of flat out running at a high speed circuit like Spa or Silverstone, before the range extender is required to get the car back to the pits.The micro-turbine system is another Delta Motorsport Innovation. SpaceX Crew Dragon completes historic mission with an ocean landing However, the cell chemistry is different for the two variants. This investigated various hybrid architectures for a low-emissions sports car and concluded that a range-extended EV (electric vehicle) was the best option.“You’re going to severely impact the range if you start using a meaningful percentage of the capability of a high-performance battery-only EV, so a range extender was always part of the plan,” explained Neil Yates, Ariel’s HIPERCAR project manager.“If you look at the range extender offerings on the market already, they’re typically combustion engine based; they’re heavy, relatively inefficient and require significant packaging space.
“You could see a scaled-down derivative of one of the motors finding its way into a mass-produced passenger car, or perhaps an enlarged version of the battery going onto a bus or an earth mover.”Ariel unveiled the first two prototypes at the Cenex Low Carbon Vehicle Show at Millbrook in September.
share. Tweet. Now that the specs won't be fully divulged until the second half of 2020, we may not see the car go on sale until 2021 or later. It intends to launch an electric hypercar (which it simply calls Ariel Hipercar) with up to 1,180 horsepower (295 horsepower per motor) and 1,330 pound-feet of … Ariel Building 1,200HP Turbine-Electric Hybrid ‘HIPERCAR’ Matthew Guy. Ariel originally planned to reveal the Hipercar in 2019. The increasing cost of commuting will eventually bring localism back to the majority employment, and what will be the point of a leisure trip to York once it has become identical to Yarmouth and Yeovil ?You have to hand it to Ariel, they never shy away from the impossible. The national grid electricity has a huge percentage of its energy from that process, so cut out the middleman and fit the power plant in the car. Pricing will not be finalised until later in the project. It will be an expensive car because of the technology involved but when compared to £1m+ supercars, which it will outperform, it’s going to represent excellent value for money. This is said to improve the torque density by as much as 25 per cent, while a sophisticated water-glycol cooling system enables the motors to run at high outputs for a prolonged period.In each case, the floor-mounted lithium-ion battery pack forms a semi-stressed member of the chassis. My small company is undertaking a similar step change program in our field (albeit on a much smaller scale) and the knowledge gained gives us the technical front foot for the next 20 years and the products that particular sectors of our market are yearning for.I have just been reading about the X15 hypersonic plane research (designed in the 1950’s) and tested in the 1960’s this gave the US the core technical knowledge to build Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle missions.The purpose of this project is not what it materially delivers, but the trajectory it sets for the company. Why does the Engineer continue to headline this sort of pointless application of engineering?
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