The Lightning GT is perhaps the least talked about of any of the new electric car concepts out there. From the looks of the website the GT should be a fast, sexy, and expensive electric car. If the recent hubbub over Tesla or the impassioned love of Ferrari is a guide, then people should be really excited about a car that incorporates all of these characteristics.

The Lightning GT has some sweet features, like full regenerative braking, 0-60mph in 5 seconds (4 seconds projected for the sport version), and even claims to charge up to 250 miles of driving in just 10 minutes.

On the battery end of things the GT uses what they call NanoSafe™ technology, which is based on technology by the US company Altairnano Inc. These nano-tech-employing batteries should hold 85% life after an amazing 15,000 cycles and are the reason that Lightning claims its extremely fast 10-minute recharge rate.


Cars 0-60 MPH Power
Jaguar 4.2 XKR convertible 5.0 Secs 420 bhp
Toyota Prius [Hybrid] 1.5 T4 10.9 Secs 76 bhp
Electric Lightning GT 4.0 Secs 700+ bhp

Hopefully this sweet British car makes it into production and the NanoSafe™ technology is proven, improved, and makes its way into mainstream battery technology.

 

that would be pretty damn cool.

 

That's the main thing holding electric cars back, is there current lengthy recharge time. If technology can whip this problem, and it looks like it's doing so, electric cars will be the future.

 

cool if it is true and happens!

 

very cool, like an electric aston martin

 

It's not the main thing, but it's up there in the list of design criteria.
Battery weight, battery cost, mileage range. It doesn't matter how long it takes a battery array to recharge if you can't afford the car and it can't get you where you need to go because the array is too heavy and the capacity is too small to get useful trip distance out of it. Charge time is just a convenience.
It's not the charge time that makes these new batteries work well for this application, it's the other benefits that matter more. The charge time is just a nice byproduct of this battery technology. If you have a battery that can have a high discharge rate, high power density, etc., that usually means that you have a low enough internal resistance (and low danger of thermal runaway) to allow fast charging. They're all different pieces of the same puzzle, and are all interconnected.

 

I'd drive one... if I could afford it.

 

Electric cars are the future, in my opinion. I believe that the ability to pull power from the grid will be a godsend for the green agenda. My reasoning is that- A-the infrastructure is already there.-B-Large facilities to generate clean power already exist, or are being developed all over the world. It is much easier to pull power from the grid in an already established infrastructure, than to try to develop a mobile means to convert it from another source.

 

Well, unless it's hydro or wind power, you're generating emissions when generating electricity. SO if you have electric cars charging off of emissions producing power plants, you're just shifting emissions from the cars to the power plants. It may be more or less in favor of one or the other, but you're consuming energy to output energy either way.

That would be infrastructure, not infostructure by the way...

 

^^ +1. Electricity comes from fossil fuels...