With the help of British battery company Nyobolt, Ian Callum, the former head of design at Jaguar Land Rover, has turned the famous Lotus Elise S1 into a unique new electric car. The company’s promising tungsten anode batteries can be charged quickly and only cost a little in terms of overall capacity. The lightweight 35-kilowatt-hour battery in the Lotus Copy takes only six minutes to set and has a range of 155 miles. Nyobolt has yet to say how much the car weighs, but it’s not likely heavy since it can go over 4.4 miles per kilowatt-hour and has low aerodynamic drag. The vehicle has deep diffusers, camera mirrors, and other features that make it easy to move through the air. We need to find out the exact technical details of the car, like how much power the engine makes and how the gear is set up. Nyobolt, on the other hand, says that the vehicle’s cells can handle 2,000 charge cycles, meaning the battery could last more than 300,000 kilometres. Just lately, articles have been written about Eyebolt’s tungsten anodes. The company says that its technology can handle charge rates of 10C, but it needs to be clarified if this means at the cell level or the pack. The group’s performance is still excellent, but it is a big deal if the company has made a lithium-ion improvement at the cell level. With a 10C grade, a cell can be charged at ten times the number of amp-hours it is supposed to hold. To handle more than 1,000 amps of charge current, you would need a 103 Ah prismatic cell, like the one used in GM’s Ultium platform. The Nyobolt uses a lower-capacity cylinder cell. In other words, a single cell may hold twice as much charge as a CCS-type charger. Nyobolt says that a one-megawatt charger will be needed for the device to reach its total capacity. Most likely, that charging cable will be heavy or, at the very least, constantly cooled. This Elise that has been brought back to life is a real car, now mainly used as a technical show. Nyobolt thinks that it will start making its cutting-edge battery cells in 2024. Even though there are likely buyers, there are no plans to make the electric vehicle with a carbon body right now.
