HuH!!!

[Invective]

An answer to a question no one asked???

https://i.imgur.com/TGuSOUkl.jpg

There's no shortage of electric supercars (https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a19137146/with-1888-hp-the-rimac-c-two-puts-croatia-on-the-supercar-map/) and sports cars from small automakers on the horizon. How many of them will actually make it to market is another story. But one that caught our eye is Gumpert Aiways's Nathalie. It has an electric powertrain, but instead of putting a large battery pack underneath the passenger cabin or using hydrogen fuel cells, the Nathalie runs on methanol.

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a31406874/nathalie-methanol-powered-electric-sports-car/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_cdb&utm_medium=email&date=031420&utm_campaign=nl19690489

[Joe Walsh]

They should offer it in a Forest Green color....then it would be a :
Forest Gumpert!

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[Mr. Man]

Maybe it's just me, but these electric cars don't excite me at all. I really don't care how fast the are or how well they handle, they just don't get the juices flowing.

[Invective]

Maybe it's just me, but these electric cars don't excite me at all. I really don't care how fast the are or how well they handle, they just don't get the juices flowing.

I find the tech interesting. A methanol fuel cell that produces electricity. There is already some methanol infrastructure in Europe but none here that I'm aware of. Also, the company will offer a delivery service in case a buyer lives outside one of these areas.

"The Nathalie uses the methanol fuel cell to produce hydrogen and convert that into electricity. The vehicle still has a battery, but it acts as a buffer between the methanol fuel cell and the four motors. That way if the driver wants more power to the wheels than the fuel cell can immediately provide, the battery pack sends the electricity needed. While driving through the city or on cruising over long distances, the battery doesn’t need to be used, according to Gumpert Aiways."

"According to the automaker, the Nathalie has a range of 510 miles, can reach a top speed of 184 miles per hour, and can refuel in three minutes. That's if you have access to a methanol refueling station—which is a big "if." While charging does take longer than refueling and the hydrogen infrastructure isn’t as large as some automakers would like, methanol isn't as easy to come by as gasoline, to say the least.
The automaker's solution is build a network of methanol gas stations in cities where the car is sold. It initially intends to sell the Nathalie in Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Scandinavia, and Belgium/Luxembourg/Netherlands. Swiss buyers are in luck; there are already stations being built.
As for anyone living outside a metropolitan area, Gumpert will have an overnight delivery service. All of these solutions are free for the first year of ownership."

[sailsmen]

Forbes, 8-1-2-18
"Lockheed Martin’s secretive Skunk Works® laboratory registered a patent in March for a revolutionary technology that could solve the world’s energy problems for good – but don’t pop the champagne yet. The design is for a compact fusion reactor (CFR) which theoretically produces cheap, clean, near limitless energy – all from a device that could fit on the back of a semi. If it sounds far-fetched, that’s because it is. The sustained generation of a fusion reaction has evaded scientists since the idea was first conceived over 70 years ago.".

They are completing their 5th Reactor, each one is larger than the previous.

[CBT]

Not entirely ugly.