Rimac Concept One

Posted on 08.11.2011 16:00
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Rimac Automobile | coupe | concept cars | Frankfurt Auto Show | electric cars | Rimac Concept One | Cars | Car Reviews | Rimac Automobile There are plenty of questions going around about all the mystery concepts that are headed to the Frankfurt Motor Show. Today, you can add another one to that growing list.Rimac Automobile, a Croatian-based auto company, is bringing a very intriguing electric supercar to Frankfurt, and if we’re to believe these guys, they may just have something that could steal the spotlight on one of the biggest auto shows of the year. The car is called the Concept One and it’s being touted as a revolutionary supercar with a new propulsion system its designated as a ’permanent magnet synchronous motor generation’.Allow your heads to wrap around that concept for a minute and then try to divulge the description of it. According to Rimac, this system is divided into four sub-systems with one system making up one motor, an inverter, and a reduction gearbox. Each of these systems drives on only one wheel and is completely independent from the rest. These wheels then accelerate or decelerate independently from the others and can do so hundreds of times per second. Then there are sensors that have been placed all over the car that channel information to a number of ECUs that controls of each these systems. Rimac even has a name for it: All Wheel Torque Vectoring (AWTV).Mind blowing as it is to comprehend, Rimac is promising an output that’s unheard of for an electric sports car. Using their very own 92-kWh battery module, Rimac is pegging the Concept One to produce an output of 1,088 horsepower and 2,802 lb/ft of torque with a 0-60 mph time of 2.8 seconds and an electronically limited top speed of 189 mph.All this and they still haven’t shown us what the car looks like. Guess we know which concept we’re going to need to look out for when the Frankfurt Motor Show opens its doors this September. Rimac Concept One originally appeared on topspeed.com on Thursday, 11 August 2011 16:00 EST. read more

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