so before getting into the article the first thing i checked when i looked at this Evija X is horsepower and Kilowatt-Hours of the battery. 2000 hp from 70 KWH battery is 28 hp per KWH.
by comparison Rimac Nevera makes 17 hp per KWH and plaid makes 11 hp per KWH.
it was instantly obvious then that Evija is doing something differently if it is able to get so much more power per KWH from the battery.
of course the Corvette E-Ray gets 160 hp from 1.6 KHW battery so 100 hp per KWH but the E-Ray is not an EV and not even a Plug-in Hybrid - it’s a REGULAR hybrid.
what if … you could combine the types of batteries used in the E-Ray with the types of batteries used in the Plaid so you could optimize for a perfect mix of power, range and weight ?
well that’s exactly what “Adaptive Multi-Chem” means. It uses two different types of cells - one optimized for power and one optimized for range. this essentially makes Evija a Hybrid but not a Gas-Electric hybrid but rather an Electric-Electric hybrid.
before you say that is insane remember - this is how your own body works. your muscle cells all covnert fuel into energy but there are multiple pathways - there are pathways optimized for sprint and pathways optimized for marathon - and they both run in parallel - but depending on what you’re doing the muscle cell favors one over the other.
so i guess i didn’t invent this - nature did. this is also why i like hybrid vehicles - because they take cue from nature - which itself is designed by evolution.
i will just briefly plug another interesting and similar car namely Ariel Hiperar which is a Gas Microturbine Hybrid that does 0-60 in 1.8 seconds:
i mention it because it is equally as technologically creative as the Evija, but it is a totally different solution discussed in a different thread at a link below:
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