Electric Lightning: 10 minutes of charging, 200 miles

The other day, at the British International Motor Show, the British company Lightning Car Company presented an unusual electric car Lightning. The project’s unusualness is expressed in everything: in the fast-paced shape of a car, which is not quite usual for models with an electric motor, in the use of a completely new type of battery - lithium-titanium; Finally, in an incredibly high-speed charging of these batteries.



The company Lightning Car Company was founded relatively recently - only in 2006, but the names of its developers, formerly known in Rolls Royce and Bentley, joined the ranks of its developers.





The basis of the design of the new electric car is 30 NanoSafe batteries developed by the American company Altairnano, in which traditional graphite is replaced by titanate nanoparticles, which makes such batteries more thermostable and less toxic. The total capacity of the battery pack is 36 kW. NanoSafe batteries can be used for more than 12 years, while even after 15 thousand charge-discharge cycles, they retain up to 85% of their original capacity. Such batteries are already used, for example, in the Sport Utility Truck from Phoenix Motorcars. With a 3-phase network, the entire Lightning battery pack can be charged in just 10 minutes.



In the electric car used engines Hi-Pa Drive production of the British PML Flightlink Ltd., with a capacity of 120 kW each, on the engine for each wheel. According to the company, Lightning can accelerate to 60 miles per hour in just 4 seconds and drive up to 200 miles on a single battery charge.



A good machine, but it is unlikely to be affordable for the general public in the near future: for now, such cars will be sold exclusively in England, and the price will be approximately 120 thousand pounds sterling. More information about the characteristics and pictures of the electric Lightning can be found on the website of the company Lightning Car Company .