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Get to know the electrified car with batteries that do not recharge
There is a Swiss company called Nanoflowcell that has been talking about a fresh concept for electrical cars for many years now. At the Geneva Motor Demonstrate next month, it will showcase off its newest model, the Quant 48VOLT. What makes it special is the fact that it is not an electrified car that can be recharged in the traditional way. instead, the battery is replenished, like an ordinary gas tank for a combustion engine. If you have never heard of flow batteries, here’s what you need to know.
The concept was patented in one thousand nine hundred seventy six by NASA. The idea was to find a better way to store energy for space travel. Batteries can take a long time to recharge and also to release their stored energy, something that does not affect supercapacitors, for example. With flow batteries, storage is greatly simplified.
The liquids never react to each other as they are stored in two different tanks. One is for the negatively charged liquid and the other is for the positively charged liquid. A membrane inbetween them permits only the ions to pass, which generates the energy the car needs. The liquid, used and discharged, is disposed of as vapor, very likely after being used to cool the auxiliary battery and the vehicle’s motors. The diagram below explains this better.
Nanoflowcell technology makes the liquids “interact” through a film. The process generates electrical energy. It is then supplied to the four motors (one for each wheel, but mounted in the center of the assets to avoid unstretched mass), the supercapacitors and an auxiliary battery, which stores the surplus energy that is eventually generated.
The company’s very first car was Quant e-Sportlimousine. It was 207.1 in. (Five.26 meters) long, 79.Five in. (Two.02 m) broad, 53.Five in. (1.36 m) high and at a wheelbase of one hundred twenty six in. (Trio.20 m). There were versions with six hundred forty four (480 kW), nine hundred twelve (680 kW), and 1,074 (801 kW) horsepower, with the maximum range of around eight hundred kilometers, thanks to the 105.7-gallon (400-liter) tanks (52.8 gallons, or two hundred liters, for each ionic liquid). Like all Nanoflowcell models to date, it was just a concept and never sold. That’s because the there’s a major technical difficulty here: where would a driver “refuel” the batteries? For the cars to work, it will be necessary to build “supply” stations, which could look like gasoline stations, but would need a lot of switches under the fetish mask.
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To go after up the Quant e-Sportlimousine, Nanoflowcell displayed the Quantino a 153,9 in. (Three.91 m) featherweight model, the same size as a fifth-generation Ford Fiesta, but with the same Quant wheelbase: one hundred twenty six in. (Trio.20 m). It is also seventy six in. (1.93 m) broad and 52,8 in. (1.34 m) high. Then the brand introduced a model with an electrified system of 48V of nominal strain (the previous ones arrived at 735V). This led to the name of the model that the company will present in Geneva this year.
And the fresh car? Everything indicates that it is an evolution of Quant e-Sportlimousine, as our pic comparison below shows. Just now with a 48-volt electrical system.
The fresh model looks slightly louder, but this may just be printing due to the angle of the photos. The rear bumper is also a little different, with two air vents instead of the single, central one that was on the e-Sportlimousine. We know that it can reach one hundred eighty six mph (300 kmh) and will have a range of six hundred twenty one miles (1,000 km). More details will be exposed in Geneva. Just don’t expect big surprises. What’s indeed amazing here are the flow batteries. They just might be the reaction to make electrified vehicles viable around the world.
Get to know the electrical car with batteries that do not recharge
Get to know the electrical car with batteries that do not recharge
There is a Swiss company called Nanoflowcell that has been talking about a fresh concept for electrical cars for many years now. At the Geneva Motor Display next month, it will demonstrate off its newest model, the Quant 48VOLT. What makes it special is the fact that it is not an electrical car that can be recharged in the traditional way. instead, the battery is replenished, like an ordinary gas tank for a combustion engine. If you have never heard of flow batteries, here’s what you need to know.
The concept was patented in one thousand nine hundred seventy six by NASA. The idea was to find a better way to store energy for space travel. Batteries can take a long time to recharge and also to release their stored energy, something that does not affect supercapacitors, for example. With flow batteries, storage is greatly simplified.
The liquids never react to each other as they are stored in two different tanks. One is for the negatively charged liquid and the other is for the positively charged liquid. A membrane inbetween them permits only the ions to pass, which generates the energy the car needs. The liquid, used and discharged, is disposed of as vapor, most likely after being used to cool the auxiliary battery and the vehicle’s motors. The diagram below explains this better.
Nanoflowcell technology makes the liquids “interact” through a film. The process generates electrical energy. It is then supplied to the four motors (one for each wheel, but mounted in the center of the figure to avoid unstretched mass), the supercapacitors and an auxiliary battery, which stores the surplus energy that is eventually generated.
The company’s very first car was Quant e-Sportlimousine. It was 207.1 in. (Five.26 meters) long, 79.Five in. (Two.02 m) broad, 53.Five in. (1.36 m) high and at a wheelbase of one hundred twenty six in. (Trio.20 m). There were versions with six hundred forty four (480 kW), nine hundred twelve (680 kW), and 1,074 (801 kW) horsepower, with the maximum range of around eight hundred kilometers, thanks to the 105.7-gallon (400-liter) tanks (52.8 gallons, or two hundred liters, for each ionic liquid). Like all Nanoflowcell models to date, it was just a concept and never sold. That’s because the there’s a major technical difficulty here: where would a driver “refuel” the batteries? For the cars to work, it will be necessary to build “supply” stations, which could look like gasoline stations, but would need a lot of switches under the bondage mask.
More from Quant:
To go after up the Quant e-Sportlimousine, Nanoflowcell displayed the Quantino a 153,9 in. (Three.91 m) featherweight model, the same size as a fifth-generation Ford Fiesta, but with the same Quant wheelbase: one hundred twenty six in. (Trio.20 m). It is also seventy six in. (1.93 m) broad and 52,8 in. (1.34 m) high. Then the brand introduced a model with an electrical system of 48V of nominal strain (the previous ones arrived at 735V). This led to the name of the model that the company will present in Geneva this year.
And the fresh car? Everything indicates that it is an evolution of Quant e-Sportlimousine, as our photo comparison below shows. Just now with a 48-volt electrical system.
The fresh model looks slightly louder, but this may just be printing due to the angle of the photos. The rear bumper is also a little different, with two air vents instead of the single, central one that was on the e-Sportlimousine. We know that it can reach one hundred eighty six mph (300 kmh) and will have a range of six hundred twenty one miles (1,000 km). More details will be exposed in Geneva. Just don’t expect big surprises. What’s indeed amazing here are the flow batteries. They just might be the reaction to make electrical vehicles viable around the world.
