Once you need four digits and a coma to specify the quantity of horsepower your car puts down, you already know you’re talking about something very, very special indeed. Such is the case for the postulate One, the primary car from virtual unknown manufacturer Rimac Automobili. The firm (that is Croatian, not Italian, incidentally) has created this machine and given it four electric motors. They combine for an astounding 1,088 horsepower but, even perhaps more importantly, enable torque vectoring across all four wheels — varying the flexibility at each corner to drag the automobile around turns.
That performance equates to a zero – 62MPH time of two.8 seconds, while the utmost range is rated as 600km (about 375 miles) because of a 9.2kWh lithium ion phosphate (LiFePO4) battery. It’s, alas, only a concept for now, but with a bit of funding the parents at Rimac hope to bring it to market. And we are hoping they do too.
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