If we take a look at today’s number of electric cars we will be able to see that it is incredibly low. Nowadays, the country with the highest number of working electric cars is Germany with just 1400 units. Why don’t we care more about investing in “techno-ecology” and sustainable resources, so that the Earth will last much longer?
Audi has assumed this responsibility and has therefore designed a futuristic, new-concept car. The basis of this car is simple: no CO2 emissions are allowed. The car is powered with four interconnected electric engines placed one in each of the wheels. The maximum power of the car is 313 horsepower and the weight of the batteries (which are stored in the centre of the car), is 450kg. The whole car weighs about 1600kg and it can reach 100km/hour in 4.8s. The maximum speed of the E-Tron is limited to 200km/h due to the batteries dependency. The autonomy of this car is 248km but Audi has promised an improvement in this aspect. It has got just two seats and they are displaced several centimetres to the front because of the huge space occupied by the batteries.
Like many other electric cars, it is provided with a system that uses the kinetic energy generated during the use of the brake. Furthermore, they are now investigating how to heat or cool the inside of the car without using any electric energy or any fuel.
The coolest thing about this car is that you can just plug it in the socket of your own house. When the batteries’ charge level is low, you simply plug it in and wait between six and eight hours. In spite of being quite a long time, there is a chance that in the near future gas stations will provide us with high voltage sockets that will reduce the charging time to 1 or 2 hours.
This car is great but what about the price? The cheapest 100% electric car is nearly 32,000 euros, so just imagine what the price of the new Audi might be... It seems that if we want to help our plane we need either to be rich or wait for the electric cars to come along an dismantle today’s motor industry.
Audi has assumed this responsibility and has therefore designed a futuristic, new-concept car. The basis of this car is simple: no CO2 emissions are allowed. The car is powered with four interconnected electric engines placed one in each of the wheels. The maximum power of the car is 313 horsepower and the weight of the batteries (which are stored in the centre of the car), is 450kg. The whole car weighs about 1600kg and it can reach 100km/hour in 4.8s. The maximum speed of the E-Tron is limited to 200km/h due to the batteries dependency. The autonomy of this car is 248km but Audi has promised an improvement in this aspect. It has got just two seats and they are displaced several centimetres to the front because of the huge space occupied by the batteries.
Like many other electric cars, it is provided with a system that uses the kinetic energy generated during the use of the brake. Furthermore, they are now investigating how to heat or cool the inside of the car without using any electric energy or any fuel.
The coolest thing about this car is that you can just plug it in the socket of your own house. When the batteries’ charge level is low, you simply plug it in and wait between six and eight hours. In spite of being quite a long time, there is a chance that in the near future gas stations will provide us with high voltage sockets that will reduce the charging time to 1 or 2 hours.
This car is great but what about the price? The cheapest 100% electric car is nearly 32,000 euros, so just imagine what the price of the new Audi might be... It seems that if we want to help our plane we need either to be rich or wait for the electric cars to come along an dismantle today’s motor industry.
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