The Thunder Power is Taiwan's 450bhp all-electric saloon

[The EngiNeer]

The Thunder Power is Taiwan's 450bhp all-electric saloon

 

 

 

This extraordinary machine is called the Thunder Power. It is a thing. A real car, no less, unveiled in a corner of the Frankfurt Motor Show sporting a full electric drivetrain and 450 horsepowers.

 

It’s the brainchild of CEO Wellen Sham, a man who took over a tooling company four years ago and turned it into the purveyor of excellently-named electric cars.

 

The name, it’s just… magnificent, isn’t it? “Why the name? Because it’s electric,” 

 

Once you’ve gotten over the whole Thunder Power thing – surely a 1980s cartoon castaway? – we can tell you that the chassis was designed by Sham himself.

 

“We are developing a new technology that is able to blend carbon fibre, aluminium and steel,” Sham tells us. That combination is what the whole thing – chassis and body – is made of.

 

 

 

 

Sham patented the technology, telling us it’s offers a flexible, modular base, able to scale up to something like an SUV, or scale down to a smaller supercar.

 

We’ll come back to the supercar thing in a second – he’s going to build one, apparently – because not only did Sham design the Thunder Power’s chassis, complete with a multi-link suspension setup, but also the battery pack and motor too.

 

Horsepower? For the saloon, around 450bhp and 413lb ft. Sham himself admits this figure is not exactly, um, lightning. “It’s not really that much,” he tells us. Still, it’s good for a 0-62mph time of less than five seconds, and a top speed of 155mph.

 

Source : TOP GEAR