Posted on 04/14/2022 12:26:45 PM PDT by Red Badger
Hypercar newcomer Deus Automobiles has emerged from the shadows of Vienna, Austria, to throw its hat into the "world's most powerful cars" ring. Its Vayanne super-coupe puts out four figures' worth of all-electric power and torque on its way to screeching from 0 to 62 mph in under two seconds and topping out just under 250 mph. But as odd as it feels to say, by the time the car launches in 2025, 2,200 horsepower might just be too little too late for "world's most powerful" bragging rights. Time will tell.
An outrageously powerful "production-oriented" Austrian hypercar concept penned to life by Italdesign sounds like an archetypal Geneva Motor Show car if ever there was one. But Deus didn't have the option of a Swiss soiree this year, so the Big Apple does the honors of hosting its world premiere.
After a couple teasers, Deus goes to New York to debut the Vayanne concept Deus Automobiles Softer and smoother than you might expect a 2,200-hp electro-coupe to be, the Vayanne is fairly nondescript from the front, save for a gaping black grille that leaves something to be desired. The perforated design is interesting enough, but it feels like it would be better if they cut it down to half its size or less. The aim was to create an infinity symbol-inspired design, but the car ended up with too much maw.
The airflow-promoting hexagonal perforations find more favorable surrounds in back, housed on the sides of a black lemniscate that mirrors the front grille, lassoed into place by a rope of red taillight. The left and right outlets and rear diffuser appear ready to spit out an absolute windstorm of air.
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This always cracks me up. The whole raison d’être for going electric is to prevent the earth warming up a degree in 100 years. Therefore we must stop using fossil fuels to power our cars and switch to EVs and energy from sun and wind.
But physics still teaches us the universal truth F = MA. Moving a big, heavy EV 0 - 60 in two seconds requires a LOT of F which takes a lot of energy to produce.
If these people really cared about the environment, they wouldn’t be producing such “kWh guzzling” cars.
That said, this is a cool car!
I had to look up “maw”...
Anyway, what’s the point of the internal airflow... a gas turbine hiding in there?
mouth.....................
That tail light looks like a giant Maxi-pad.
Great, now another car carrier will sink.
While the acceleration is impressive, the 1/4 mile times suffer from having to recharge half way through.
Yabutt what is its towing capacity?
It can be towed by any common tow truck........................
And it’ll do that for all of 90 seconds.
Ok... That made me literally laugh out loud.
The promise of -e driven cars is impressive... Once you ditch the batteries and figure out how to generate that -e onboard.
Until then... nothing more than expensive toys.
Austria? Has it received it’s quota of vaxxes and boosters?
Y’all can sing your praises for yourmarvelous electric motor, which would be great to power an A.C. unit to keep the laundry room cool in a Louisiana summer.
Y’all have done some aerodynamic design on thatt thing, I will admit. The paint job is quite pleasant, too.
Let’s be honest. Y’all would miss the belly-rattling roar of a top fuel slingshot dragster, or, the sound of a LeMans class race car, or the sound of either a 289 or a 427 powered AC Cobra, now wouldn’t ya?
Big electric motors are for HVAC, modern locomotives, and work, not for personal transportation vehicles. That’s too effeminate.
“But physics still teaches us the universal truth F = MA. Moving a big, heavy EV 0 - 60 in two seconds requires a LOT of F which takes a lot of energy to produce.
If these people really cared about the environment, they wouldn’t be producing such “kWh guzzling” cars.”
I’ve been waiting for someone else to say that. All these pinheads talking about EVs saving the Earth first talk about the massive acceleration they get.
What’s the point?
All that horsepower and still can’t run for 10 minutes in a road race without overheating or losing power.
No such thing as a EV racecar...unless you call a few seconds on a runway “racing.”
Yeah, but does it have cup holders?
As an engineering concept, this is truly a marvel. But there has to come some sort of trade-off, as there cannot be very many quick accelerations or very high achieved velocity before the batteries are literally sucked dry, perhaps never to be recharged. Managing the excess heat alone from these spectacular performance figures puts quite a crimp in the honesty of their claims.
Now if they have some kind of supercapacitor that can release its stored energy is something like a modulated manner, MAYBE all this power could be harnessed. But again, thermodynamics continues to rear its head, and it can be like the mythical hydra, with many heads. Each one ready to strike out and kill you dead.
EV batteries require their own cooling system.
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