[Auto/Moto] The Fulminea electric supercar by Automobili Extreme: 1.5 MW of power [2040 HP]

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ulminea is the name of a new car , also designed to convey the idea. Made between Turin and Modena, in a few copies costing millions , it will boast a 0-320 km/h (three hundred and twenty kilometers per hour) in less than 10 seconds . It is electric, with a dream battery that allows for reduced weight, even if it will cost around 3,000 euros per kWh . It is not a normal car, of course, but a high-level project that today shows the tricolor potential in top performance electric cars.

Welcome then, even if for the moment Italy is not its main market. What the big manufacturers don't do is done by Fulminea Auto, which thinks not only of an electric car of dreams, but also of a first gigafactory in Italy . To make the best batteries for electric cars, in the Bel Paese. Also in this case batteries not for city cars, given the high cost, but with solid state cells (to give great autonomy) plus a Kers F1 derived system and ultracapacitors (useful for rapid recovery and maximum performance). With 100 kWh available, the Fulminea batteries (500 Wh/kg or 1.2 kWh/l or 50-100% higher energy intensity than today's average) will weigh just 300 kg to give about 520 km of WLTP range.

Before going to the point of the car presented today in Turin, as a static model, it is important to highlight the issue of the Italian Gigafactory, for batteries . Cars Extreme like Tesla? Even better, in theory, if infrastructures are brought back to life that can give work instead of depending on others. Today 90% of the battery cells in electric cars are Asian.Fulminea's potential goal is to produce 50,000 battery packs (2.5 gWh) per year, if fully operational. An investment of 500 million euros, but if 150 euros per kWh are then monetized by selling our cells, the investment could be recovered in a few years. Obviously we are talking about non-low-end car batteries, but in any case aimed at a market where Italy can try to be there, as it was for the great engines of the past, thermal and tricolor.

A technological avant-garde, obsession with details and exaggerated performance, in electric . These are the elements of the road-going but also artisanal hypercar of Gianfranco Pizzuto, patron of Estrema. When it will be on the road, in the third quarter of 2023 , Fulminea will be the first to use an innovative "hybrid" battery pack that combines Li-ion cells with solid-state electrolyte (ABEE) and ultracapacitors reaching 100 kWh of energy to power the 4 electric motors : total power 1.5 MW (2,040 hp). The Italian hypercar wants to accelerate from 0 to 320 km/h in less than 10 seconds and weigh, in running order, 1,500 kg. The ultracapacitors are positioned on the front axle, while the solid-state cells are positioned behind the passenger compartment before the rear axle. The BMS management will exploit Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, derived from NASA.

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