Bugatti Electric Supercar in the Works

[Guest]

The time will come where the mark of a muscle car is the high-pitched whine of capacitors charging instead of a chest-thumbing purr from smoking exhaust pipes.

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[pocketdrummer]

I bet Tesla is feeling a little heat. Until now, they've been pioneering the performance electric genre.

 

[the associate]

Even if this beast will last 15 mins it will still probably travel sickening distances in that time 0.0

 

[the associate]

Even if this beast will last 20 mins it will still probably travel sickening distances in that time. I mean its Bugatti, you know their not going to avoid creating something insane.

 

[the associate]

Umm ok, ignore that 1st comment, I never even clicked submit for it wtf...

 

[NightLight]

First make a NORMAL and affordable electric car!

 

[Pei-chen]

Boring. The fastest electric car is still slower than than a electric train and the train is much bigger and powerful.

 

[Anomalyx]

This is less news than it would seem, or at least for anyone who has ever heard of the Eliica. It had 480 kW of motor, and that was 6 years ago. Top speed of 230 mph, and acceleration that would smoke the majority of gasoline cars, especially when accelerating above 60+ mph
I'd say these improvements aren't really that surprising for a time span of 6 years for relatively new technology.

 

[fortressmaximum]

It wouldn't be hard to push an electric car to 350 km/h if the power source were outiside of the car like in the high speed trains, got it?

 

[oxxfatelostxxo]

.Boring. The fastest electric car is still slower than than a electric train and the train is much bigger and powerful

The fastest electric train also doesnt accelerate for sh!t, its all in the gearing. Not to mention the fact that the train cant go anywhere but the track its on.

Anyway, 2200N-m, thats like 15x the honda, which is 110hp, so...seing as torque and hp go fairly close hand in hand, thats should at least break thier normal 1000hp mark, DROOL..

Not to mention the improved gas mileage, i mean shit it prob gets like 11mpg city now =P

 

[husker]

Are there new discoveries in the laws of physics or something that warrants a "breakthrough" in how gears work? Gearing, blah, blah, blah, electric motors blah, blah, blah. These are technologies that have been around forever. The limiting technology for all electric cars is the batteries. How are you going to supply copious amounts of electric power over a long distance/time? All the rest is window dressing.

 

[johnny_5]

Concerns remain however, over the prototype's power requirements, especially during acceleration and continuous driving.

So, everything except for braking? :lol:

 

[d1rtyju1c3]

[citation][nom]husker[/nom]Are there new discoveries in the laws of physics or something that warrants a "breakthrough" in how gears work? Gearing, blah, blah, blah, electric motors blah, blah, blah. These are technologies that have been around forever. The limiting technology for all electric cars is the batteries. How are you going to supply copious amounts of electric power over a long distance/time? All the rest is window dressing.[/citation]

The current Veyron only gets 2-4mpg city and 9-12hwy. But when you can afford a 1.3 million dollar car who cares, and 2200N-m = 1623lb-ft of torque.

 

[goodegg]

[citation][nom]NightLight[/nom]First make a NORMAL and affordable electric car![/citation]

Nissan Leaf.
Chevy Volt.

others will follow.

 

[x3style]

[citation][nom]oxxfatelostxxo[/nom]The fastest electric train also doesnt accelerate for sh!t, its all in the gearing. Not to mention the fact that the train cant go anywhere but the track its on.Anyway, 2200N-m, thats like 15x the honda, which is 110hp, so...seing as torque and hp go fairly close hand in hand, thats should at least break thier normal 1000hp mark, DROOL..Not to mention the improved gas mileage, i mean shit it prob gets like 11mpg city now =P[/citation]

Train acceleration has been manually limited for the comfort of human beings, if they where not limited you would fly out of the rear window in a few seconds, they deliver more G's then a rocket launch,even if everyone would be on a seat and wearing security belts the G's from a maximum train electric motor acceleration would make everyone on the train pass out in 10 seconds.
Electric motors unlike mechanical ones deliver constant force regardless of rpm. This means constant acceleration throughout the whole speed. In other words you would be glued to the seat from 0-60 like you would from 200-260. There are no gearboxes for electric motors.Few appreciate the huge difference of the electric motor from everything else its only limited in power by how much juice you can put in it.

 

[bayouboy]

[citation][nom]x3style[/nom]Train acceleration has been manually limited for the comfort of human beings, if they where not limited you would fly out of the rear window in a few seconds, they deliver more G's then a rocket launch,even if everyone would be on a seat and wearing security belts the G's from a maximum train electric motor acceleration would make everyone on the train pass out in 10 seconds.[/citation]

WOW, this statement is so wrong, I can't even begin to debunk everything in it. First and foremost, there is a limit to acceleration due to the coefficient of friction between the wheels and the rail track. Lots of variables here, weight of the loci, width of track, ect. However, suffice to say that in general anything on rail on a flat grade would be hard pressed to do more than 2-3G's of acceleration. This is well below the amount of acceleration necessary to make a person pass out in 10sec. You are talking more along the lines of 5-6G's. The only methods of acceleration of a vehicle we have to achieve these accelerations are with rockets. The Saturn V rocket has a peak acceleration of 3-4G's for 100 seconds.

Most importantly, lets say you can get a loci to accelerate at 5G's for 10 seconds. That means you are going 4905 m/s at then 10 sec mark.

Are trains acceleration limited for comfort? Yes. Can they accelerate so quickly that the occupants will pass out? No.

Gah, you hurt my brain.