Lamborghini reveals its new electric supercar's concept

The popular car manufacturer Lamborghini has launched the concept of its new self-healing electric hypercar.

Partnering with MIT, the Italian car manufacturer unveiled the concept of its car named Terzo Millennio (third millennium when translated in English). The companies are focused on five different areas for this car: energy storage, materials, design, emotion and propulsion. They are envisioning a supercar not from the next generation, but the generation after that, wrote CNET.

The prominent feature of the car is its supercapacitor energy storage technology, as supercapacitors are very expensive and not quite energy dense. However, MIT and Lamborghini aim to produce one with greater ability to recharge and discharge quickly and will also work like a main battery. It would simultaneously capture and release energy. They are also working on carbon composite batteries using nanotechnology and the company believes it would decrease the weight and increase the discharge capacity of the batteries.

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The car would have four electric motors, instead of conventional mechanical motors, one for each wheel and will allow more freedom in the design by hiding all the motor-related things in the wheel walls. They will make use of the car’s carbon fiber body as an energy storage medium that will turn the entire body into a battery. The carbon fiber structure would be self-healing. If small cracks develop on the car, the charge will move through the body differently that can start a self-repairing process itself.

Working on its design, the company has kept the usual Lamborghini design but has removed the traditional drivetrain, which makes the cabin push forward a great deal. Through air channels present everywhere, the car will be kept planted.

Lamborghini’s director of R&D, Maurizio Raggiani says, “It’s, really, a box that we want to put all that’s necessary for Lamborghini to eventually compete in a world full of smart electric vehicles.”

According to The Verge, the MIT and Lamborghini collaboration is to last three years and as per Lamborghini, the company would pay around €200,000 per year. The design boss Mitja Borkert said, “The car is super extreme. The car must have a wow factor… otherwise we have failed.”