Electrics, no electricity. Up to that point can be fun driving a sports car power supply? With our French friends of Autosblog. fr we went to explore the Venturi Volage. An ideal place, the Michelin Challenge Bibendum, because the Venturi Volage uses collaboration with its Michelin. We talked at the Paris Motor Show in 2008 and finally look roar, or rather hum, live one of the most powerful electric supercars.
As usual for Venturi Technology is the highest level, 4-wheel drive, flat-bottomed carbon frame that brings the total weight of 1075 kg including batteries (350 kg). What is striking is the operator: Venturi has taken advantage of the Michelin Active Wheels of views in a previous post. The active wheel is a wheel within which are included the suspension and engine.
This allows for a full transmission, because each wheel is driving thanks to its electric motors of 220 kW each, which can deliver 300 hp. Venturi tells us that the electric motors in each wheel are actually two: one for suspension and one for propulsion, a total of eight engines and then only for a car.
At Challenge Bibendum, the Volage has received the award for the best acceleration from 0 to 50 km / h in just 2.2 s. Not bad right? As far as maximum speed, however, nothing exceptional: to extend the battery life is limited to 150 km / h. Other factors come into play here, which address both the purely technical point of view is the "philosophical".
Sure, we talk about a sporty car, but we know that the highways is not the best way to use an electric car. At the same time seems a bit 'a stretch of car environmental spore but at the same time. Questions for which it is difficult to give a definite answer, unless you arrange a live debate.
For once, however, let the doubts behind, and we think the car. In fact, we could test the car from the passenger side of the place in the Challenge Bibendum in order to make us a review. As already mentioned, the circuit is short and busy, but a small acceleration over a short straight line allows us to glimpse, but also dream, the good feeling you get behind the wheel.
Adhesion to the test one gets an idea of the 'Active Wheel ". The shock absorbers are placed inside the wheels, the car steers with the wheels glued to the asphalt. The system separates the control of the steering wheel as the suspension, because in this case the suspension is within the wheel.
The idea is catching on manufacturers, just think of the suspension with push rod mounted on the Lamborghini Aventador. Of course, the Challenge Bibendum leaves us a bit 'with the desire to go through with the test, which has not allowed a little' for short distance, a little 'for the traffic on the track.
It is doubtful that Venturi did not give us a chance to try a little 'most substantial ... In any case, we were fascinated by the technology developed in the field. Allows us to think and imagine that in the car world, all is not written yet and that revolutions are still possible. Some say that the future is already here, we are sure? Venturi Volage herself admits that it is not yet commercially viable.
Two reasons: the first is due to the industrialization of technology Michelin: the mass production is not yet. According to the price point. High tech laboratory, the price of the Volage may be similar to that of Fetish which has more or less the same performance "electric" but with different solutions.
Fetish Recall that sells for € 300,000. One sure thing we learned: to be powerful and expensive clean ... Type: Roadster - 2 seats 4-wheel drive "Michelin Active Wheel" electric motor: 4 motors / wheels maximum power of 55 kW, or 220 kW. Max torque: 232 Nm (4 x 58 nm) of 0 to 8,500 rpm Cooling Liquid Suspension: electric shock on each wheel of the type "Michelin Active Wheel" 
As usual for Venturi Technology is the highest level, 4-wheel drive, flat-bottomed carbon frame that brings the total weight of 1075 kg including batteries (350 kg). What is striking is the operator: Venturi has taken advantage of the Michelin Active Wheels of views in a previous post. The active wheel is a wheel within which are included the suspension and engine.
This allows for a full transmission, because each wheel is driving thanks to its electric motors of 220 kW each, which can deliver 300 hp. Venturi tells us that the electric motors in each wheel are actually two: one for suspension and one for propulsion, a total of eight engines and then only for a car.
At Challenge Bibendum, the Volage has received the award for the best acceleration from 0 to 50 km / h in just 2.2 s. Not bad right? As far as maximum speed, however, nothing exceptional: to extend the battery life is limited to 150 km / h. Other factors come into play here, which address both the purely technical point of view is the "philosophical".
Sure, we talk about a sporty car, but we know that the highways is not the best way to use an electric car. At the same time seems a bit 'a stretch of car environmental spore but at the same time. Questions for which it is difficult to give a definite answer, unless you arrange a live debate.
For once, however, let the doubts behind, and we think the car. In fact, we could test the car from the passenger side of the place in the Challenge Bibendum in order to make us a review. As already mentioned, the circuit is short and busy, but a small acceleration over a short straight line allows us to glimpse, but also dream, the good feeling you get behind the wheel.
Adhesion to the test one gets an idea of the 'Active Wheel ". The shock absorbers are placed inside the wheels, the car steers with the wheels glued to the asphalt. The system separates the control of the steering wheel as the suspension, because in this case the suspension is within the wheel.
The idea is catching on manufacturers, just think of the suspension with push rod mounted on the Lamborghini Aventador. Of course, the Challenge Bibendum leaves us a bit 'with the desire to go through with the test, which has not allowed a little' for short distance, a little 'for the traffic on the track.
It is doubtful that Venturi did not give us a chance to try a little 'most substantial ... In any case, we were fascinated by the technology developed in the field. Allows us to think and imagine that in the car world, all is not written yet and that revolutions are still possible. Some say that the future is already here, we are sure? Venturi Volage herself admits that it is not yet commercially viable.
Two reasons: the first is due to the industrialization of technology Michelin: the mass production is not yet. According to the price point. High tech laboratory, the price of the Volage may be similar to that of Fetish which has more or less the same performance "electric" but with different solutions.
Fetish Recall that sells for € 300,000. One sure thing we learned: to be powerful and expensive clean ... Type: Roadster - 2 seats 4-wheel drive "Michelin Active Wheel" electric motor: 4 motors / wheels maximum power of 55 kW, or 220 kW. Max torque: 232 Nm (4 x 58 nm) of 0 to 8,500 rpm Cooling Liquid Suspension: electric shock on each wheel of the type "Michelin Active Wheel"
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