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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday January 10 2018, @10:43PM   Printer-friendly
from the Elon-Musk-is-not-alone dept.

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


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday January 11 2018, @01:11PM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 11 2018, @01:11PM (#620918) Journal

    Have any of these people ever been up close and personal with even a modestly powerful electrical mishap? It is most truly a brown-underwear, lifetime perspective-changing thing. And fast, has anyone mentioned fast? Any fire suppression equipment still existing after the plasma dance might deploy to suppress secondary fires. Really not a home garage kind of thing.

    Can be made safe for some values of "rechargeable".

    Specifically, take the enclosure of a primary aluminium-air [wikipedia.org] battery, purge the spent electrolyte, including the aluminium hydroxide suspension, with water under pressure, replace the spent aluminium electrodes, pump the new electrolyte - I imagine the entire cycle can be performed in under a minute - it's mechanical in nature.
    Recover the aluminium from alumina in aluminium smelters, which will happily gobble tens of MW non-stop in a made-safe environ.

    See Phinergy [wikipedia.org] in action [youtube.com]

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  • (Score: 2) by leftover on Thursday January 11 2018, @05:02PM

    by leftover (2448) on Thursday January 11 2018, @05:02PM (#620979)

    That is exactly my thought of the best candidate for "recharging".

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