Nanoflowcell drops the voltage for the Quant 48Volt sports car
February 17th, 2017
The Quant 48Volt will make its debut at the two thousand seventeen Geneva Motor Showcase next month
It’s that time of year again. The Geneva Motor Display is approaching and Nanoflowcell is showcasing the latest version of the Quant, its ever-developing, flow battery-powered electrical sports car concept. Unlike the Quants of Nanoflowcell past, the fresh 750-hp Quant 48Volt sees its voltage drop precipitously, from seven hundred V on last year’s Quant FE to the namesake forty eight V. Spectacle doesn’t drop at all, however, at least not on the latest chunk of paper Nanoflowcell has issued. In fact, it only gets better: 0-62 mph (100 km/h) in Two.Four seconds, a 186-mph (300-km/h) top speed and a 620-mile (1,000-km) range.
Nanoflowcell very first demonstrated its forty eight V electrical system on the more modest, everyday-driver Quantino concept, which debuted next to the 1,075-hp Quant F at the two thousand fifteen Geneva Motor Demonstrate. After running through a duo of years of Quantino testing and development, Nanoflowcell announced last month that it had readied a variably controllable flow cell, permitting it to drop the supercapacitors it had previously relied on to store energy and regulate current flow, saving both weight and money.
“It has previously not been possible to vary the control of flow cells directly, meaning they needed buffer storage, so-called supercapacitors, to be able to manage the flow of current for regulating driving speed,” Nanoflowcell explained in that announcement. “However, supercapacitors are very expensive and comparatively powerful. The breakthrough with the fresh low-voltage flow cell drive in the Quantino 48Volt is that it will no longer require supercapacitors.”
With the two thousand seventeen Quant 48Volt, Nanoflowcell packages that fresh forty eight V technology inwards the Quant supercar concept it very first hit the scene with back in 2014, creating a car with more unbelievable (fairly literally) numbers than ever. The Quant 48Volt has an all-wheel-drive layout of four low-voltage motors, teaming up to create seven hundred fifty one hp. The motors have been redesigned for this latest concept car and rely on a “solid aluminium net structure” in place of the copper windings familiar in electrified motor design. Nanoflowcell says this reduces the volume, weight and cost of the motor while also making series production simpler.
As usual, the juice spinning those motors comes from the flow cell, where it’s the result of the electrochemical reaction of two electrolyte solutions separated by a membrane. Nanoflowcell explains how it optimized this process in its forty eight V system:
The big selling point of the low-voltage electrical system is that it makes the vehicle safer, Nanoflowcell illustrating that point by mentioning that you can go ahead and touch the flow cell’s poles without worrying about frying yourself. The liquids used are neither flammable or explosive, so even less worry weighing on the Quant driver’s mind.
So, yep, Nanoflowcell is truly kicking butt when it comes to vapor.. er.. nano tech. Or so it tells it. The company must truly like the phrase “we’ll believe it when we see it” because there’s generally nothing else to say after witnessing the outlandish claims surrounding its annual concept cars.
To its credit, Nanoflowcell did put Autocar and Top Gear behind the wheel of the Quant FE and Quantino last October, but the test drives were far from the in-depth shakedown those following the story are waiting for. Before that type of thorough review, claims like Two.Four seconds to sixty two mph (one of the quickest in the world) and six hundred twenty miles of range will be greeted with healthy skepticism, if not rolling eyeballs.
Outside of a mention about OEMs having an “enormously high level of interest” in the fresh forty eight V technology, Nanoflowcell’s latest materials don’t suggest much in the way of when we might actually see more than a demonstrate car, prototype, or paper list of numbers and superlatives. Perhaps it’ll have more news on that front in Geneva. Perhaps we’ll just be snapping photos of the latest pretty Quant and leaving behind all about it until the next one surfaces a year from now.
If we have to be stuck taking photos of the same leisurely evolving concept car year after year, we’re glad it’s the Quant, which we’ve always considered a good-looking sports car. The Quant 48Volt shows up to wear a shade of bluish-gray close to that of the original two thousand fourteen Quant E, but gets some copper-colored jewelry running down its sides. The face gets a more vertical set of slats across the intakes, along with copper-colored trim at the sides. That look is repeated at the rear, where copper outlet surrounds split up the fascia.
The interior has also been updated, with newly-colored two-tone seats visible through the open gullwing in one of the pictures Nanoflowcell released ahead of the debut. We’ll have to get a closer look in Geneva to see what else is going on inwards. We’ll be on the floor of the display beginning March seven and intend to make our annual stop at Nanoflowcell’s booth.
Nanoflowcell drops the voltage for the Quant 48Volt sports car
Nanoflowcell drops the voltage for the Quant 48Volt sports car
February 17th, 2017
The Quant 48Volt will make its debut at the two thousand seventeen Geneva Motor Demonstrate next month
It’s that time of year again. The Geneva Motor Showcase is approaching and Nanoflowcell is displaying the latest version of the Quant, its ever-developing, flow battery-powered electrified sports car concept. Unlike the Quants of Nanoflowcell past, the fresh 750-hp Quant 48Volt sees its voltage drop precipitously, from seven hundred V on last year’s Quant FE to the namesake forty eight V. Spectacle doesn’t drop at all, however, at least not on the latest chunk of paper Nanoflowcell has issued. In fact, it only gets better: 0-62 mph (100 km/h) in Two.Four seconds, a 186-mph (300-km/h) top speed and a 620-mile (1,000-km) range.
Nanoflowcell very first showcased its forty eight V electrical system on the more modest, everyday-driver Quantino concept, which debuted next to the 1,075-hp Quant F at the two thousand fifteen Geneva Motor Display. After running through a duo of years of Quantino testing and development, Nanoflowcell announced last month that it had readied a variably controllable flow cell, permitting it to drop the supercapacitors it had previously relied on to store energy and regulate current flow, saving both weight and money.
“It has previously not been possible to vary the control of flow cells directly, meaning they needed buffer storage, so-called supercapacitors, to be able to manage the flow of current for regulating driving speed,” Nanoflowcell explained in that announcement. “However, supercapacitors are very expensive and comparatively strong. The breakthrough with the fresh low-voltage flow cell drive in the Quantino 48Volt is that it will no longer require supercapacitors.”
With the two thousand seventeen Quant 48Volt, Nanoflowcell packages that fresh forty eight V technology inwards the Quant supercar concept it very first hit the scene with back in 2014, creating a car with more unbelievable (fairly literally) numbers than ever. The Quant 48Volt has an all-wheel-drive layout of four low-voltage motors, teaming up to create seven hundred fifty one hp. The motors have been redesigned for this latest concept car and rely on a “solid aluminium net structure” in place of the copper windings familiar in electrified motor design. Nanoflowcell says this reduces the volume, weight and cost of the motor while also making series production simpler.
As usual, the juice spinning those motors comes from the flow cell, where it’s the result of the electrochemical reaction of two electrolyte solutions separated by a membrane. Nanoflowcell explains how it optimized this process in its forty eight V system:
The big selling point of the low-voltage electrical system is that it makes the vehicle safer, Nanoflowcell illustrating that point by mentioning that you can go ahead and touch the flow cell’s poles without worrying about frying yourself. The liquids used are neither flammable or explosive, so even less worry weighing on the Quant driver’s mind.
So, yep, Nanoflowcell is indeed kicking bum when it comes to vapor.. er.. nano tech. Or so it tells it. The company must indeed like the phrase “we’ll believe it when we see it” because there’s generally nothing else to say after watching the outlandish claims surrounding its annual concept cars.
To its credit, Nanoflowcell did put Autocar and Top Gear behind the wheel of the Quant FE and Quantino last October, but the test drives were far from the in-depth shakedown those following the story are waiting for. Before that type of thorough review, claims like Two.Four seconds to sixty two mph (one of the quickest in the world) and six hundred twenty miles of range will be greeted with healthy skepticism, if not rolling eyeballs.
Outside of a mention about OEMs having an “utterly high level of interest” in the fresh forty eight V technology, Nanoflowcell’s latest materials don’t suggest much in the way of when we might actually see more than a display car, prototype, or paper list of numbers and superlatives. Perhaps it’ll have more news on that front in Geneva. Perhaps we’ll just be snapping photos of the latest pretty Quant and leaving behind all about it until the next one surfaces a year from now.
If we have to be stuck taking photos of the same leisurely evolving concept car year after year, we’re glad it’s the Quant, which we’ve always considered a good-looking sports car. The Quant 48Volt emerges to wear a shade of bluish-gray close to that of the original two thousand fourteen Quant E, but gets some copper-colored jewelry running down its sides. The face gets a more vertical set of slats across the intakes, along with copper-colored trim at the sides. That look is repeated at the rear, where copper outlet surrounds split up the fascia.
The interior has also been updated, with newly-colored two-tone seats visible through the open gullwing in one of the pictures Nanoflowcell released ahead of the debut. We’ll have to get a closer look in Geneva to see what else is going on inwards. We’ll be on the floor of the display embarking March seven and intend to make our annual stop at Nanoflowcell’s booth.
Nanoflowcell drops the voltage for the Quant 48Volt sports car
Nanoflowcell drops the voltage for the Quant 48Volt sports car
February 17th, 2017
The Quant 48Volt will make its debut at the two thousand seventeen Geneva Motor Demonstrate next month
It’s that time of year again. The Geneva Motor Showcase is approaching and Nanoflowcell is displaying the latest version of the Quant, its ever-developing, flow battery-powered electrical sports car concept. Unlike the Quants of Nanoflowcell past, the fresh 750-hp Quant 48Volt sees its voltage drop precipitously, from seven hundred V on last year’s Quant FE to the namesake forty eight V. Spectacle doesn’t drop at all, however, at least not on the latest lump of paper Nanoflowcell has issued. In fact, it only gets better: 0-62 mph (100 km/h) in Two.Four seconds, a 186-mph (300-km/h) top speed and a 620-mile (1,000-km) range.
Nanoflowcell very first displayed its forty eight V electrical system on the more modest, everyday-driver Quantino concept, which debuted next to the 1,075-hp Quant F at the two thousand fifteen Geneva Motor Display. After running through a duo of years of Quantino testing and development, Nanoflowcell announced last month that it had readied a variably controllable flow cell, permitting it to drop the supercapacitors it had previously relied on to store energy and regulate current flow, saving both weight and money.
“It has previously not been possible to vary the control of flow cells directly, meaning they needed buffer storage, so-called supercapacitors, to be able to manage the flow of current for regulating driving speed,” Nanoflowcell explained in that announcement. “However, supercapacitors are very expensive and comparatively strenuous. The breakthrough with the fresh low-voltage flow cell drive in the Quantino 48Volt is that it will no longer require supercapacitors.”
With the two thousand seventeen Quant 48Volt, Nanoflowcell packages that fresh forty eight V technology inwards the Quant supercar concept it very first hit the scene with back in 2014, creating a car with more unbelievable (fairly literally) numbers than ever. The Quant 48Volt has an all-wheel-drive layout of four low-voltage motors, teaming up to create seven hundred fifty one hp. The motors have been redesigned for this latest concept car and rely on a “solid aluminium net structure” in place of the copper windings familiar in electrified motor design. Nanoflowcell says this reduces the volume, weight and cost of the motor while also making series production simpler.
As usual, the juice spinning those motors comes from the flow cell, where it’s the result of the electrochemical reaction of two electrolyte solutions separated by a membrane. Nanoflowcell explains how it optimized this process in its forty eight V system:
The big selling point of the low-voltage electrical system is that it makes the vehicle safer, Nanoflowcell illustrating that point by mentioning that you can go ahead and touch the flow cell’s poles without worrying about frying yourself. The liquids used are neither flammable or explosive, so even less worry weighing on the Quant driver’s mind.
So, yep, Nanoflowcell is indeed kicking bootie when it comes to vapor.. er.. nano tech. Or so it tells it. The company must indeed like the phrase “we’ll believe it when we see it” because there’s generally nothing else to say after observing the outlandish claims surrounding its annual concept cars.
To its credit, Nanoflowcell did put Autocar and Top Gear behind the wheel of the Quant FE and Quantino last October, but the test drives were far from the in-depth shakedown those following the story are waiting for. Before that type of thorough review, claims like Two.Four seconds to sixty two mph (one of the quickest in the world) and six hundred twenty miles of range will be greeted with healthy skepticism, if not rolling eyeballs.
Outside of a mention about OEMs having an “utterly high level of interest” in the fresh forty eight V technology, Nanoflowcell’s latest materials don’t suggest much in the way of when we might actually see more than a showcase car, prototype, or paper list of numbers and superlatives. Perhaps it’ll have more news on that front in Geneva. Perhaps we’ll just be snapping photos of the latest pretty Quant and leaving behind all about it until the next one surfaces a year from now.
If we have to be stuck taking photos of the same leisurely evolving concept car year after year, we’re glad it’s the Quant, which we’ve always considered a good-looking sports car. The Quant 48Volt shows up to wear a shade of bluish-gray close to that of the original two thousand fourteen Quant E, but gets some copper-colored jewelry running down its sides. The face gets a more vertical set of slats across the intakes, along with copper-colored trim at the sides. That look is repeated at the rear, where copper outlet surrounds split up the fascia.
The interior has also been updated, with newly-colored two-tone seats visible through the open gullwing in one of the pictures Nanoflowcell released ahead of the debut. We’ll have to get a closer look in Geneva to see what else is going on inwards. We’ll be on the floor of the demonstrate embarking March seven and intend to make our annual stop at Nanoflowcell’s booth.