RapidE — electric version of the sports car Rapide S Aston Martin. Now it is ready only a prototype, but almost all the details are known.
The first luxury electric car — it's not a fad, but only the last straw grasped that, you can meet the environmental standards. CO2 emissions from the «aspirated» V12 is really huge. Plan for production of a small car Aston Martin Cygnet failed — ask anyone. Now the forces thrown at electric car, and help engineers in the racing team, «Formula 1» Williams. Financial support was provided by the Chinese firm ChinaEquity.
It will be produced in two versions: with the installation of rear-drive capacity of about 560 hp and more nimble all-wheel drive with transfer 800–1000 hp for tracks. That's just how much is enough battery charge? Perhaps for 200 miles? It's too early to say. Meanwhile, representatives of the company within the framework of the Sino-British creative summit, held in London, said that the electric car track version can go round at the Nurburgring «very quickly.»
But the estimated cost is known to be exact — between 200 and 000 pounds. The first batch of cars, which will appear within the next couple of years, will go to the Chinese market. It is planned to collect 400 electric cars a year, 100 of them — in China.
