Video Summary
The 2020 Drako GTE Electric Car:- The car has plenty of power and this power is available at any throttle opening.
- It is relentless all the way, with the car pulling consistently.
- It is the first example of its kind.
- New car companies are emerging now when many were disappearing in the 80s and 90s.
- The car is 1200 horsepower and all electric.
- It has four identical motors, each generating 300 horsepower.
- The battery is 450 volts.
- All the motors are inboard and driven by half shafts.
- It is the first production automobile with no differentials; instead, the motors control the wheels directly in both directions.
- It is designed as a four-seat luxury car.
- The driving philosophy was that an electric supercar needs to be massively useable.
- It has good ground clearance to enable the car to take passengers and bags in the back.
- It is built with the intent of reinventing Grand Touring.
- The company aims to build cars, and create proprietary technology to sell.
- The car produces 6,500 foot-pounds of wheel torque, a high measure that exceeds dynos and can break dynos.
- The lithium-ion battery makes 2,200 amps of pulse current and 1,800 amps of continuous current. This is about 1 megawatt at 450 volts.
- The car has electric power steering, eight electric pumps, and three radiators in the front, and a high voltage compressor that cools the glycol.
- The cost for this car is $1.25 million. There are 25 of these cars are being made to order to discerning ladies and gentlemen.
- The wheelbase is 116-117 inches.
- On a 150-kilowatt charger, a full charge takes about 30 minutes. 80% or 90% charge can be accomplished in around 24 minutes.
- With all the cars to the crash standard from the original Fisker karma no modifications are needed..
- 295 tires are up front, and 315 in the rear.
- The car features four gear boxes which provides the reduction and the 5.56:1 reduction ratio.
- It weighs 5300 pounds but all the weight is extremely low.
- It’s been wind tunnel tested to produce the smoothest possible shape, and there is a high voltage compressor that cools the glycol.
- The range on a WTLP cycles is 250 miles.
- The shift from mechanical to software drives the design.
- There is a new sensor technology that allows a touch on the door to open it.
- The skeletal build is a Fisker Karma.
- Luis Vermish is the designer.
- It was developed at the Nordschliefe. It’s where the car achieved the straight-legal record.
Overall, Jay Leno was impressed by the car. He said “I’ve always predicted that we will live in the age of boutique manufacturing where you take the chassis or an existing chassis and then you add new or upgraded parts to it, you know.
