Take your foot off the accelerator and listen carefully, fossil fuel junkie: saltwater-powered luxury sports cars made by nanoFlowcell are?now being road-tested in Europe. Yes, where the speed limits are fast and the cars are sleek.
So that means it goes fast and looks beautiful. Take that in the nuts, Big Oil.
I would faint if I won this on “The Price Is Right.”
So, asks the citizen who’s been lied to over the Internet on a daily basis: Is this for real? How does it work? How do we know if this isn’t just some new stunt to see how many hits can be racked up by making people talk about how Tony Hawk was riding on a real hover board? What that citizen wants to know is: When can I buy one?
Little needs to be said about how saltwater luxury sports cars can take another chink out of the armor of an industry that has for centuries had nations fighting and climates changing. And who needs another tutorial on the dangers of greenhouse gas emissions? This would clearly eliminate 32 percent of the emissions in the United States that come from vehicles, not to mention the need to recharge using standard means, such as through electricity via our greenhouse gas-producing leader, the coal-burning power plant.
So what the world really needs to know: When?
According to Discovery’s YouTube technology show, the fully electric-drive car, called the QUANT e-Sportlimousine, debuted at the March 2014 Geneva Motor Show. And, according to the vehicle’s spec sheet, with a recharge fill-up lasting as long as 373 miles, 920 horsepower, a fully digital dash system operated from a smartphone, rocket-speed pick-up and a top speed of 217 mph, the QUANT is likely to show up on your street any year now. Racheted down, of course.
Basically: hot performance, zero emissions.
Gizmag writer C.C. Weiss just reported in summer that a QUANT already has been given a German TUV license plate, which signifies that road-testing is already well underway. Weiss, who’s beheld the vehicle in all its luxury, described its inner workings:
“The flow cell system powering the Quant e-Sportlimousine’s four electric motors develops electricity from an electrochemical reaction created by two electrolyte solutions. This electricity is forwarded to super capacitors where its stored and distributed.”
Company Chairman Jens-Peter Ellermann told Weiss:
“We’ve got major plans, and not just within the automobile industry. The potential of the nanoFlowcell is much greater, especially in terms of domestic energy supplies as well as in maritime, rail and aviation technology. The nanoFlowcell offers a wide range of applications as a sustainable, low cost and environmentally-friendly source of energy.”
Again, when?
The company shot out a press release on Dec. 10, 2014, declaring that the final hurdles were being breached so that a production series could begin soon.
“We are making excellent progress,” said Nunzio la Vecchia, nanoFlowcell’s chief technical officer in the release and continued:
“By the time the Geneva Motor Show 2015 starts (in March) we will already have met 90 percent of the homologation factors required for series production. The exterior already meets all the requirements for series production. The points still to be covered comprise mainly the upcoming and very costly crash tests as well as formal tests and documentation.”?
Those tests, la Vecchia added, would take place in the United States and Germany.
“Although it pains me to think of subjecting such an exciting car to a crash test,” he said.
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