Arrow: A 4WD 'fighter jet' for the road

[Kingfish]

(CNET) Arrow: A four-wheeled 'fighter jet' for the road (Q&A)

The Arrow is powered by a 30-kilowatt, liquid-cooled, double-sided synchronous motor located in the rear. The motor drives a limited slip differential that powers each rear wheel. It could become a four-wheel-drive vehicle or three-wheel-drive, but for now, I’m keeping things light and simple. Fenders have been added to the torpedo-shaped body, but we haven’t tested the airflow in a fluid dynamic software. The goal is to lower the drag coefficient as much as possible because energy will come from lithium-air batteries and the range target is to exceed 600 kilometres. I like the power-to-weight ratio ‘promised’ by this type of battery, which also releases oxygen when it’s charging.

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Has my attention, KF

 

[wheelbender6]

I want one.

 

[melodious]

Power from lithium air. Let's see what happens with this before 2014 is over.

 

[speedmd]

Battery shows some promise. Look forward to seeing the progress. Arrow's size/weight looks like it would be a bunch of fun. It also looks a bit tall for its width and sides look like it may be a bit of a hand full in cross winds. Looks can be deceiving.

 

[Hillhater]

I wont hold my breath !

Bombardier runs a concept vehicle design studio. He isn't focused on actually seeing his ideas realized, but he has dreamed up dozens of interesting concept designs.

 

[Toorbough ULL-Zeveigh]

there never wuz an arrow

 

[amberwolf]

(edit: i guess I didn't catch it being a *concept of a car* and somehow thought at first it was supposed to be an *actual concept car* that had supposedly been built, so I guess you can ignore the below, posted before I realized that)

The pic in the OP just looked so much like CGI to me that I went to the site, and viewed the original fullsize images, where I find this texture-wrap error on the tires, circled in red. I highly doubt real tires would be molded like this, but it is an extremely common modelling error when creating textures that must wrap completely around a 3D object. Additionally, the tread lines on the tire aren't the same on the left vs right tire in the top image, arrows in yellow. Arrow in green points to apparent polygon edges/points in the tread/sidewall interface.

I suppose it's possible this is a real photograph of a real vehicle, but I doubt it. I doubt that even the "room" it is in is real.

 

[Kingfish]

^ wtf?

No no AW - that's the new style of tread, all virtual, and never wears out :wink:

In truth, I missed that one; too funny. :lol:

 

[The fingers]

I volunteer to test. 8)

 

[DAND214]

I noticed the strange tred design but figured it was something new. DF.

Dan