Lamborghini Unveils a Self-Healing Electric Supercar Concept

&gt; the company will develop in-wheel electric motors, which would eliminate the need for a single large engine.<p>A &#x27;single large engine&#x27; is only needed in ICE cars, electric vehicles have a &#x27;small&#x27; motor, and can easily have multiple motors. It&#x27;s already being done by Tesla and Rimac.<p>To my knowledge, an &#x27;in wheel&#x27; motor would not be desirable due to unsprung mass, so a motor on the chassis connected to the wheel with an axle probably what they mean. Having 4 individual motors would be a first (I think) for a production car, it would allow for some very impressive traction control

&gt; Lamborghini also intends to make the supercapacitors out of carbon fiber panels that can be used to form the body of the car—so the Terzo Millennio draws energy from its own body. In other words: the car itself is the battery.<p>So does that mean that if you happen to have an accident, there is a chance that a good chunk of your battery gets short circuited? That sounds somewhat dangerous...

This is a concept and the article mentions that many of the technologies do not yet exist.

&gt; Supercapacitors store energy physically and don’t generate the heat of lithium-ions, but as of yet they don’t offer as much power.<p>This probably should read &quot;don&#x27;t offer as much energy&quot;. Almost every mainstream media article about electric cars mixes up these two concepts, sigh.

This article reads like the cars my friends and I would &quot;design&quot; when we were in third grade.<p><pre><code> Oh yeah? Mine is gonna have 800 horsepower and will be amphibious and have wings like the batmobile!</code></pre>

I drive a car with low clearance, but that Lamborghini is just ridiculously close to the ground. You’ll scrape the bumper just pulling out a regular drive way. It sure as hell will need to be “self healing” for someone to legitimately be driving that.

Does it put itself out if it catches fire? Lambos always seem to be on fire.

This would be really fascinating if the technology was there and they had a working prototype. What they actually have is a bag of promises and a little graphic design.

So if the carbon fiber body is going to be a capacitor, wouldn&#x27;t there be a risk of electric shock in case of some damage to it?

Just what kind of roads is this kind of car made to drive on? I mean the clearance.

It would be cool with a car that self heals scratches and maybe even cleans itself.

Corrected headline: &quot;Lamborghini Unveils Borderline Science Fiction Plans for a Concept Car&quot;

What&#x27;s with all the auto-playing videos these days? I don&#x27;t even know how to turn this video off....

Funny, I threw the idea 2 days ago on IRC.<p>&gt; &lt;someone&gt; &quot;regenerative crashing&quot; lol<p>MIT, please stop spying on #IRC, thanks