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The 161mph $129,000 Fisker EMotion:
Henrik Fisker's new electric car project is finally here, unveiled in full at this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Get past those show-stopping ingress points however, and you find something that'll give a certain electric car company something to chew on...
We must first discuss the looks. Henrik – famously responsible for the design of the Aston Martin Vantage and BMW Z8 – clearly hasn't lost his touch. There are elements of his former hybrid motor, the Karma, and everything has been sculpted in the name of the tech underneath.
It's built from carbon fibre and aluminium, and features elements designed around the LiDARs dotted at the front and rear of the car. The door handles are flush, operated via your smartphone. It's big, too: 5m in length and 1.4m in height, around the size of a BMW 5 Series. The wheels are similarly huge: 24s as standard, on low rolling-resistance Pirellis.
Sulky Dutch model not included with the base model.
Previously:
Fisker Relaunches Electric Car Effort
Fisker Automotive Comes Back Under New Name, Plans to Launch Electric Car
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday January 11 2018, @04:01AM
Under one minute, damn - I must have just blocked that out, yeah, 11+MW is out there, like 250 homes all cranking their heat, appliances, and incandescent light bulbs at max output. So, I suppose a 175kWh super-cap could charge up for 4 hours on your house feed then zap your car full in 60 seconds? Now we're also talking about over 200kV @ ~55A, striking plasma arcs at nearly 8", and there's not a connector in the catalog for that (though there are some that will do half that power...)
Can you picture a "normal" fueling station for this scheme? Of course, if these imaginary batteries exist, then the fueling station can have a bank of them underground, but I'd hate to be anywhere around if all that energy decided to convert to heat in less than a minute....
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