Taipei-based
startup Xing Mobility has just announced a 1,341 hp rally-inspired supercar,
which the company claims is the world’s first electric supercar with on-road
and off-road capabilities. Enter the Miss R.
It’s designed purely for performance driving (it’s
even capable of rallying!), with propulsion coming from four independent 350
volt motors. The company says the car “boasts four-wheel torque vectoring and
is capable of staggering speeds.”
The Miss R prototype claims a century sprint
time of 1.8 seconds, while zero to 200 km/h time is done in 5.1 seconds. Top
speed is said to be over 270 km/h. That makes it 0.1 seconds quicker than the
new Tesla Roadster, but the American-made 10,000 Nm electric sports car boasts
a top speed of 402 km/h and a cruising range of 998 km.
Electric juice comes from the Xing’s patented
immersion cooling technology, dubbed the Xing Battery System. It consists of a
stackable, LEGO-like battery modules which house 42 lithium-ion cells, all of
which sit directly in the non-conductive 3M Novec 7200 Engineered Fluid. The
liquid has been used for solvent cleaning, heat transfer applications, fire
suppression and supercomputer cooling.
XING Mobility is the first car company in the world
to use Novec fluids for modularised battery cooling in electric vehicles. This
apparently unlocks the ability to achieve continuous high-discharge power
output, increased stability and a high level of predictability due to
exceptional heat transfer, non-flammable and non-toxic properties of Novec
fluids.
Miss R’s battery pack can produce one Megawatt of
power with 98 modules holding 4,116 cells, and while car manufacturers race to
tackle the challenge of range and charging restraints, Xing Mobility plans to
incorporate a battery swap system that allows the entire battery enclosure to
be exchanged within five minutes.
