Audi R-Zero Concept 2006

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(fron Audi Press Release)

Combining sportiness with a respect for the environment, the Audi R-Zéro illustrates that extreme performance and reason are not contradictory. If anyone thinks that an electric car is deprived of elegance and dynamism, Audi R-Zéro is a battery-driven vehicle that can fulfill dreams and arouse desires.

As oil prices continue to increase and the Protocol of Kyoto enters application, the bio-energies face serious limitations. Our energy future does not depend only on crude oil reserves. In the face of climatic change and its ecological and human cost, the consumption of hydrocarbons cannot continue at the current pace. It is necessary to decrease and diversify our consumption. Transport is the principal source of air pollution and oil consumption to a total value of 50%.

The initial purpose for the elaboration of this concept was to create a machine with demonic sensations by avoiding the immoderation and the inconveniences that we know of the current supercars, mainly in term of pollution. A concept with the image of a muscular sports car, the Audi TT, and with performance equivalent to that of the Bugatti Veyron, the whole works in harmony with our environment and must join the perspective of 2010.

Aside from the production of the batteries themselves, this car is respectful of the environment mainly due to its electric motorization. The system of electric motorization transmits the fabulous power and reactivity of the engine. It is in harmony with the ecological challenge and meets the needs of the present without compromising the capacity to satisfy the needs of the future generations.

The R-Zero is an exceptional supercar benefiting from an outstanding architecture. The electric motorization allows an original hierarchical organization of the streams of air in order to to control the behavior of the airflow around and inside the car. The structure of the aerodynamic flow optimizes cooling of the motor and the brakes, as well as generating steady aerodynamic support, all of which is synonymous for performance.

The "Back single frame" is not a free aesthetic subtlety nor deprived of functionality … An airstream connecting the 2 single frames (back and front) is present inside in the car : This structural column thus traverses the total length of the machine. Technique drove the design and the technical constraints were not subject to stylistic demands that, aside from the "Back single frame", we have created a product which forms part of the lineage of explosive motor vehicles. And in the end, we have an electric motor car which does not look like an electric car.

This concept represents a future prospect coming from students of the International School of Design, ISD France.

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Specifications

General Information
Vehicle Type:2-door coupe,concept car
Price:Unavailable
Fuel Mileage:Unavailable
Drivetrain
Configuration:Front Engine/AWD

Engine:
In-Wheel Electric Motors (4)
Displacement:N/A
Horsepower:1091 bhp @ 12900 rpm
Torque:2168 lb-ft @ ---- rpm
Max RPM:Unavailable
Transmission:N/A

Dimensions:
Weight:4850lbs
Height:Unavailable
Length:Unavailable
Width:Unavailable
Wheelbase:Unavailab
leTrack (f/r):Unavailable

Performance:
0-60 mph:3.0 sec
0-100 mph:Unavailable
¼ mile:Unavailable
Top Speed:286 mph
Lateral acceleration:Unavailable
Braking 60-0 mph:Unavailable

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And a video

Here

[digitalcraft]

Eeets not a tooomah.

This thing looks very oddly proportioned o.O

[70cuda88]

sounds like audis veyron

[Sledgehammer]

A veyron with 4 motors ftw! I wonder what the mile limit is for this beast

[Quiggs]

12900rpm zomg vtech just kicked in yo.

[jorismo]

ROFL :

Quick get Drakkie in here!