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Four electric motors, 925 horses 0-100 in 2.8 seconds and salt water as fuel. And best of all: It can now be registered.

Is this too good to be true? Well, dispense with merchants still contend the law. But this technology has at least been some solid steps forward, judging by this spectacular vehicle.

Koenigsegg was partner

Some might remember that Koenigsegg already in 2009 showed a prototype of a partial solar super sports car, Koenigsegg Quant, which we discussed during the Geneva Motor Show when it was showcased. Ildsjelen the quant side was already at that time the current technical director, Nunzio Lavecchia.

Aside from the design and some of the technology is continuing, the current model a completely different vehicle.

The car was presented at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year and developments have since taken place. It is no longer NLV which accounts for the development of quant-super sports car, but the company Nano Flow Cell, which in turn has partnered with Bosch for the electrical components.

925 horses

And for a vehicle! It is equipped with so-called three-phase induction motors (electric motors) – one in each wheel. Maximum output is 925 horsepower and maximum torque (pulling power) at each wheel are staggering 2,900 newton meters. torque naturally distributed optimally between the wheels (called Torque vectoring).

With the motors in the wheels makes it easier to accommodate the two 200-liter tanks with ionic liquid (essentially salt water) that make up the electrolyte (fuel), which we shall return.

As we can see: This is pretty much more progressive than the Super electric car we mentioned here a while ago.

GREAT MUST BE: When technology is expensive (currently, it is hoped), the car must also be there. And then one may as well go for the super sports car class. According to sources in Germany quoted by the Daily Mail, the car costs a minimum of ten million. Photo: Nano Flow Cell

Impressive

The car is pretty big -but mass of 2.3 tonnes is much like a Tesla Model S or rechargeable Mercedes S-class. Length of 526 centimeters in class with the latter, while the width is sizeable 202 centimeters. But sports car is low: 136 centimeters.

It was a great day when Nano Flow Cell had approved its Quant E Sportlimousine summer. It was the prestigious certification organization TÜV, department Munich, who had conducted the thorough inspection that led to the car model was homologated.

14 years of preparation

SCIENCE-FICTION? No, the car is ready for the road! Photo: Nano Flow Cell

This means it is approved for use on public roads and thus detectable. And thus the solemn ceremony of the feature with registration ROD-Q-2014 will be presented.

Nunzio La Vecchia director of engineering at Nano Flow Cell AG and declared that this was a historic day for EV ism and the result of 14 years of hard work. This is finally having reached an executable, and thus officially approved, prototype of a car that uses the relatively little-known Flow Cell technology instead of traditional batteries.

Nano-flow battery

In practice, this involves an electric vehicle, but instead of traditional battery pack, use so-called flow cell technology. It is in a way a kind of battery comprising an electrochemical cell in which the energy found in the electrolyte. This is stored in tanks outside the cell and that set the technology can have certain analogies with fuel cell technology.

The case continues below FLOW-CELL : Greatly simplified diagram illustrating the principle behind the technology (here Redox Flow Cell). Photo: Nick B. (Own Work / Wikimedia Commons)

Reputable scientists

Flow batteries (we have not been able to find any satisfactory Norwegian word) is not a new idea as an alternative energy store for cars: the renowned Fraunhofer Institute, presented a research model in 2009 (with redox flow battery), and emphasized the benefits of being able to provide for charging simply by filling electrolyte tanks of an appropriate station in the same way as in gas stations today.

And compared to, for example, hydrogen relative to fuel cell technology, is of course the electrolyte – in nanoflowcells case in practice saltwater – much easier to handle.

But here we are talking Thus nano flow – in other words, considerably higher energy density than we have shown previously. Lavecchia explains this by saying that they have managed to achieve an extremely high concentration of ionized carriers in the cell electrolyte system.

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But how realistic is that?

Just the has been difficult for us to ascertain, and it is in a way understandable that the company would not disclose too many details about the technology.

Professor Jens-Peter Ellermann makes it clear that Nano Flow Cell technology (which for the time being in many ways appears as a black box) is not intended to be limited to use in the automotive industry, but has a much further application fields, both in energy supply in general and within the maritime sector, rail or aviation.

For our part, we allow ourselves to be skeptical until there comes a specific development project.

But just having gotten wonder approved and registered – and Germany – is a good leg on the … road.