Running 270 Miles: The Pursuit of Speed and Relaxed Cruising

We've been running our car for 270 miles now, all day long, and it's clear that we're on the right track. As Joe mentioned earlier, the top speed is indeed irrelevant when you consider the reality of stoplight-to-stoplight driving. For us, it's not about reaching astronomical speeds, but rather about finding a comfortable pace that allows us to enjoy the ride.

In our car, we've opted for an aggressive gearing setup, which provides a more relaxed feel at higher speeds. This allows us to maintain a smooth pace while still enjoying the thrill of driving. As Joe pointed out, the key is not just about reaching high speeds, but also about how the car responds to different throttle inputs. In our case, we're aiming for a sensation similar to that of a Mercedes V12 Biturbo, where you feel the power coursing through the engine at 2200 rpm.

To achieve this, we've chosen to run 295/315 tires on the front and rear axles, respectively. This provides a symmetrical distribution of weight, which enhances stability and handling. However, as Joe noted, more aggressive gearing can also provide an additional boost in acceleration, making the car feel even more responsive.

One of the standout features of our car is its electric powertrain. With 1200 horsepower at our disposal, we're able to accelerate from a standstill with remarkable speed. As Joe mentioned earlier, most electric cars are limited by their software and hardware constraints, which restricts their top speed. However, in our case, we've been able to push the limits of what's possible, thanks to the sophisticated drive algorithm that controls the motor.

The result is a car that feels like it's pulling all the way up to 207 mph, with no signs of fatigue or stress. It's an incredible feeling, and one that sets us apart from more conventional internal combustion engine cars. As Joe said, "it's relentless all the way." Whether you're cruising down the highway or tackling a twisty mountain road, our car is always ready to put its power to the ground.

Our approach to car design has also led us to prioritize bespoke manufacturing over mass-produced solutions. We believe that using high-quality components from reputable suppliers, such as Brembo brakes and hydraulic steering units, allows us to create cars that are truly unique and special. Even the batteries and motors themselves can be customized to suit our specific needs.

In the end, it's all about creating a driving experience that's tailored to your individual preferences. As Joe said, "it's not just about building a car – it's about building an experience." By using advanced software and hardware to fine-tune every aspect of the vehicle, we're able to create cars that are truly one-of-a-kind.

A Factory on the Horizon

As we continue to refine our design and manufacturing process, we're excited to announce plans for a new factory. This facility will allow us to produce multiple cars at once, making it easier to meet demand and expand our operations. We're already working with suppliers and partners to bring this project to life, and we can't wait to see the finished product.

The Grand Touring Electric (GTE) model that we're building is a four-door car that's designed for long-distance cruising as much as it is for track driving. It's an all-new platform that allows us to focus on creating cars that are optimized around the software control, rather than traditional mechanical components.

As Joe pointed out, this represents a new frontier in automotive design and manufacturing. By using advanced software and hardware to drive innovation, we're able to create cars that are truly ahead of their time. Whether you're a seasoned car enthusiast or just starting your journey into the world of electric vehicles, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey.

The Future of Automotive Manufacturing

As I reflected on our conversation with Joe, it became clear that there's a new wave of innovation sweeping through the automotive industry. With the rise of electric and hybrid powertrains, traditional manufacturing processes are being turned on their head. By embracing advanced software and hardware technologies, car manufacturers can create bespoke cars that cater to individual preferences.

This shift towards bespoke manufacturing has both benefits and drawbacks. On the one hand, it allows companies to focus on creating unique and special cars that stand out from the crowd. With the use of commodity batteries and motors, the road differentiator becomes increasingly important – and software takes center stage.

On the other hand, this approach also raises questions about the nature of car ownership itself. As we move towards a world where cars are optimized around software control, what does it mean to own a "car" anymore? Is it still about the physical vehicle itself, or is it more about the driving experience and the bespoke package that comes with it?

Ultimately, these are questions that will continue to shape the automotive industry in the years to come. As new car companies emerge, they'll be forced to confront these challenges head-on – and find innovative solutions that cater to the changing needs of consumers.

As I look back on our conversation with Joe, I'm reminded of the importance of pushing boundaries and embracing innovation. In a world where traditional manufacturing processes are being turned on their head, it's exciting to think about what the future holds for car design and production.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enshe's got plenty of power that's for sure yes she does have plenty of power more importantly that power is available anywhere right right irrespective what throttle opening you're at relentless all the way and there you go night it really really beautiful some of Jalen's garage the cover featuring today the 2020 Drako GTE if you've never heard of it well there's a reason for it because this is the very first one you know I find it fascinating in an era where car companies were disappearing an alarming rate in the 80s and 90s Pontiac and Oldsmobile and all of a sudden we have new car companies coming in Tesla McLaren now we have Draco and a number of others and I think it's it's really a testament to American ingenuity and an engineering let's me ship the co-founder of Draco motors how are you hi Dre thanks for having me here well thanks for coming I I find this fascinating this is all-electric car it is it's 1,200 horsepower 1,200 horsepower okay with four motors the advantage to four motors as opposed to to the essences the motors are inboard and they are driven by half shafts but there's four of them which means that this is the first production automobile that has no differentials you know so the motors control the wheels directly in both directions okay the front but all four motors are the same horsepower or their more they are they are identical this car is is perfectly symmetrical so we have 300 horsepower approximately at each corner I'm giving you that 1,200 total okay and lithium-ion batteries lithium ion batteries absolutely okay and how many volts is it um this car is 450 volts okay for in 50 well it's okay that's not outrageous oh no I mean there's there's you know movement towards you know eight hundred volt architecture obviously because you can you can reduce the current but we built as cars as a 450 car and it almost seems like 1,200 horsepower is an unheard-of number in the production actually 1,200 horsepower is a great number but the real you know differentiating factor of electric cars to talk and this car can produce 6500 foot pounds of wheel talk that's it I mean it's there's not even a dyno that can register that much there isn't they will just break yeah I'll just break okay were you setting out to make us actually this is a four-seater luxury it is Oh sort of design ethos was that the electric supercar needs to be massively usable right you need to have good ground clearance you need to be able to take passengers you maybe throw the kids in the back throw a few bags in the back so you know it's if we want to sort of reinvent this whole notion of of Grand Touring right so what is the goal here is a coal to have proprietary technology you can sell to other manufacturers is it to build a car company where do you see it going we would really like to build cars that's our passion right that's what drives us and we're not sure exactly what the future will bring but we are heavily focused on building you know exhilarating driver-focused supercars now this car is what a million to five it is indeed we're building 25 pieces to order for discerning ladies and gentlemen I mean in an era when the Porsche Cayenne Turbo is 184 the Tesla 150 obviously not this much horsepower but not dissimilar I mean I mean those are two of the fastest accelerating cars you can buy at ten times more the price so when you think about these current electric cars they're very good at accelerating in a straight line the super power behind this car is the fact that this car can rotate like no other car in fact the reason we got into this is because we want to change the fundamental paradigm of how a vehicle is steered think back to a tray we go back to Henry Ford and and Mercedes Benz you have one engine and then you have a bunch of differentials and a steering wheel and you hope that when you turn the wheel the car will go where you want it to go in this car it's integrated the car knows for example that you want to turn because we look at multiple variables including the steering angle sensor the brake and accelerator position we compute the slip angle lateral jury wheel speed sensors so this car can turn like no other car and hope that when you drive it you'll feel that it actually you know makes your brain stop working well it's not her make my brain stopped working actually b-side was accused of that through high school is it four-wheel steering it is not for wheels during the secret is using differential talk to rotate the car because as you know when you go around a corner arc described by the outer wheels and the inner wheels is different right it's turning it different which is why you need a differential right well this car doesn't have any differentials and that control occurs in software and that's in the forward direction but to truly control the car you need to be able to decelerate the wheel as well and traditionally in a regular car you have to use the brakes mm-hmm right but in a car with no differential and electric motors you can decelerate each wheel individually in milliseconds so you get very very low latency and essentially full digital wheel control in both directions so are you read Jenning also as you decelerate we can so there's a multiple options for rejoining so we can regen and we can talk about that later when you drive the car will show you the controls but there are multiple regen modes that you can engage or even disable regen I can't tell if visually the wheelbase is long it's just the fact that the wheels are said at the far for example you look at the Citroen us over there the D s people think it's quite a long wheelbase but the wheels are set so far out at the corners and it gives the illusion of it I can't tell if that's the case here what is the wheelbase about a hundred and sixteen that's exactly right hundred okay okay yeah because it looks like a long car but it's probably the same wheelbase as the Tesla s is that about it's about the same you know our goal here I mean the reason it looks long is because the car is read pushed down to the ground through the styling elements right and it has that stance and it it's meant to evoke that long bonnet look of a Targa Florio or a Mille Miglia right that was our design inspiration like I would say that probably the a6 GCS Maserati will probably be the starting point of that long bonnet vision so is this patented technology this torque vectoring that you have does everybody anybody else have this I believe you know other people claim to have it we do hold several patents on it but you know the thing about a car is that you know it needs to be able to perform in a wide variety of conditions right and developing that software takes a long time and you know our chief engineer has been working on it for over ten years CCI just never heard of this company until literally the car showed up right well we've been you know we want it to be stuff because as you know Dre a lot of people are announcing electric cars right that you know you know maybe there's a picture of them or Orenda but we wanted to have you know a full production car running at full speed before we told anybody anything right right this is the fruit of Labor know that's admirable no it's fascinating I mean the price is so staggering is what is what sort of throws people off you go oh if I finance that that's ten thousand months that you know it gets a little well in order to build a scourge a we had to create our own battery there are no commodity components in this car this is a bespoke hand-built car including the battery we built a 90 kilowatt hour battery that's in the floor of the car that produces 2200 hours of pulse current and it can do 1,800 amps of continuous current that's that's a megawatt at 450 volts so in order to build that kind of technology I mean we don't have a Giga factory so you know the costs are because of our extremely small series production is it is it a series of small bodies put together all one the battery starts off we have a brick that's the brick is 88 cells in parallel right and then we have a hundred and eight of those in series okay and in fact this because this car already had a tunnel the batteries actually are you shaped and so we they've been we've been able to fit 90 kilowatt hours into into the floor what you say this car already had a tunnel so you develop the car before you develop the battery well this car we reused you know a VIN so that's how we were able to have a street-legal car where we're modern you know next generation hot rodders essentially I got well so what was it what was the what was the platform this is a 2012 Fiske Kharma oh okay okay gotcha so you're starting with that though that chassis well you see you know Elin started the same way with the Lotus Elise right yeah there was a roadster here yesterday so you know we decided that it was the best way to be able to get the car on the road because you know and you've said in several of your shows and build all these cars but then you can never run them on the road right so this allows us to be a 50 state legal and available to buy anywhere in the United States okay so you haven't crashed head of this as a Draco yeah we we're not required to oh but we haven't made you know significant changes to the crusher in fact we've made no changes to the cross structure at all so this car is you know is perfectly homologated right has airbags you know all the safety features and everything you need brakes our car white carbon ceramic Brembo carbon ceramic 395 six Pistons up front cool and how does this there's no so you need the you need the key so you can't say honey go wait in the car okay well she can have our own key so anybody have the key just to get in the car well you know I think mr. conics us call meets you know a key is Walter you say there's no transmission so your direct drive through all with direct drive we actually have four gearboxes in the car right right and those provide the reduction so we have a five point five six to one reduction ratio and that's what gives us the the top multiplication because you know people often say well you know sure why you're quoting a wheel talk number instead of a motor talk number and we always quote wheel talk because we only have a single gear right and so you're getting that that multiplication all the time because you're not shifting so your front motors but out of all four motors put it exactly the same perfect some internal bias there is a bias control switch and we can talk about the controls later but you can bias the car any way you want okay so you can go symmetrical all-wheel drive which is obviously the preferred mode of operation on very twisty roads you could back the front power off a little bit to help the car turn because you don't want to overpower the front but it just depends on the driving conditions the chorus is program from that stuff but it wouldn't do that automatically oh no we don't believe that you want to do that dynamically this is this is done to optimize driver feel because we're really focusing on driver capability okay so the individual driver can just set it up the way he or she well he can just dynamically change it depending on the road that he's on right on a fast you know sweeper at 120 it's different - may be very tight turns at 55 in the canyons and Nevada is there liquid cool the batteries are liquid cooled there are eight electric pumps there's three radiators in the front as well as a high voltage compressor that cools the glycol so url's want to keep the batteries what about 74 degrees I'm actually they want to be you know batteries are closer to being around room temperature between you sort of 30 to 45 degrees yeah that's 70 I apologize I'm a centigrade man yeah okay yeah and who is the designer the designer of the cross blow ever mich he was creative director at Pininfarina for a long time and he now has his own company called grand studio and they're in turin i believe the last sort of famous car that they did was the for 580 italia okay all right let's walk around and see it's really a striking car and you've got a proper trunk front and back I imagine well no we'll we'll pull the hood off we'll pull the hood open so you can see the front there's a lot of hardware in this car to get that 1200 horsepower we have four motors so they takes up all the space in the front so there is no front we have a real engine bay which I'm very looking forward to showing you and what is what is the car way the car weighs 50 300 pounds okay but all the weight is extremely low it has a very low center of gravity about seventeen and a very low polar moment of inertia now you open the trunk we certainly can we can open the trunk and you see you know J what we have here's the rest of the powertrain well haven't seen the front yet but we have two inverters two motors two gearboxes and that you're charged for it right there there are two trucks once we have a DC fast charge for as well as a standard j7 272 for AC charging so you've got out of the trunk open to charges well in this car J we just couldn't bear to cut any holes in the body once we've seen it but for customer cars they can specify whichever location they'd like typically you know on the rear fender so once an AC charger wins a DC correct we support DC fast charging up to 150 kilowatts with either shadow mo or CCS depending on the customers preference now you said engine and gearbox two gearboxes back here is it a two-speed we had single speed we have a single speed 5.56 to one reduction ratio but essentially we have two gearboxes in a single housing so you have two motors going into two gearboxes in a single central housing and two independent output shafts okay right and then we have exactly the same up front okay and then of course each motor has an inverter and the inverter is the the heart of an electric car that's what converts the voltage DC into AC right right right okay what are your losses with the gearbox you know the gearbox losses are extremely low yeah because there is no shifting there's no clutch there's no multi-plate anything and of course there's no differentials right so there's the losses are extremely low okay yeah I would think you'd want to have some sort of Porter cuz then they'll leave your trunk open to charge it well again it depends where you're going to charge your car but like I say this was just you we just couldn't bear it well where would you like your tragic a production car will have door handles because it seems like anytime Bob we got anything out of the car yeah I mean you can't get to it yes we've actually developed a new sense of technology yeah which will allow you to just you know place your hand and the door will open we open the front absolutely I'll go or I'll go around this side oh the whole thing comes off it does well that's convenient honey would you get the honey would you and little Timmy get the hook so these are your two separate motors here those aren't the motors right those the inversion I mean the inverter indeed and you can see that you know the high voltage cables in that so we have five cables because you have two DC and then three-phase AC and then underneath the black units or the motors and in the center or the two gearbox one of these copper cables there they are they are copper red copper yeah that's right oh you got a lot of fluid moving around here right so cooling is you know a big part of the car we have three radiators and remember we're not just cooling the motors we're cooling the high voltage electronics and the torches the inverters the DC DC converter and of course importantly the battery guide to get where your hydraulic pump so does it so the steering is like electrically driven but it's it's it's high it's got its it's hydraulic right so it still has you know a lot of good feel to it okay so that runs on its own separate it runs off its own separate 12-volt power supply right it's provided by but it's not separate fluid doesn't use this yes yes no it uses a hydraulic fluid Raul absolutely and there you see you know the hydraulic brakes as well you see the brake master and tell us about the name was the name come from the name comes from my business partner Dean Drake oh okay and it's a very cool name and he's a he's a car enthusiast obviously he is like me a major car enthusiast so this is all Fisker you know see or well the the actually underlie to the skeleton right right is is a Fisker and you know significant modifications have taken place to the car and so I don't believe there's very many physical components left in the car at all cool well very good what are the other features before we go for drive traditional headlights and lighting and all of that is fairly traditional I think the main thing is you know the all system of the vehicle that what we call it the quarter manettino and we will fiddle with those you know as we're driving right but again the main differentiator for this car is its handling prowess the fact of how it can rotate particularly post apex you know when a lot of cars drape and when you drive them on track you have to wait post a pie because you get on the gas too early she's not gonna go around the corner right right well this car you can get into the throttle extremely early in fact it challenges you corner after corner to get into the throttle even earlier it's actually quite a you know a wonderful minor be taking it to Nurburgring or any other place not yet but we did develop our technology at the Nordschleife where in fact we were there four years ago with our prototype and we actually set a a street-legal record oh okay okay has that been broken since it has been broken since you know with this latest you know Porsche roses you know Tesla right but again it was we weren't focused on it necessarily for you know the overall lap time but we will you know it's a wonderful place to develop dynamics of your vehicle at high speed so there's really no maintenance for the customer to do other maybe brake pads it's like your Baker electric right once the last time you did any maintenance on that I never have in 1909 with a Yugo so it's the same so you know the reason why we didn't mind having that clamshell hood was because the only time you're already going to take the hood off is to show it to your buddies and they can help you take it off in your range is how much the range are on those standard WL TP cyclists 250 miles electricity like sex guys just lie about it you know it's one of those deals you know okay I like electric motorcycles they come and they go this cause 100 miles on the charge and then I get on and they go 27 and a half well let's put it this way Jake this is a 1200 horsepower supercar right it has a dastardly desire to suck electrons right right so you know you can discharge this car at an extremely high rate but you can also charge it at an extremely high rate we can maintain you know maximum charging current up to about 90 to 93 percent in contrast to a lot of lesser batteries that you really have to back off at camicus at how long how long does it charge on a hundred 50 kilowatt charger we can charge it in about 30 minutes but on full charge that's a full jar full charge and you can do a 80 percent charge Riggin a 90 percent charge you know in 24 minutes well that's impressive let's uh let's put the hood on and take a risk minutes let's do it cool very cool all right let's give it a shot okay can you press two to let me in oh I got pushed to to let you in all right you slow do you want to come back forward here we go so press the brake got the brake press and then hit the hit the button hit the power button let it go yes the keyword this call was you know we really wanted to focus on top speed right and go 200 plus miles an hour and so when you have a single gear ratio you have to you know choose the fine balance between ground acceleration and top speed right because we don't you know the two-speed gearbox rather those are interesting but it kind of ruin some of them you know simplicity and elegance of a motor design you know because you now introducing more mechanical drive that is not really required so just quite addicting you get a sound so it feels higher right right you hear that very turbine and it's all drive-by-wire correct yes I mean there are no cable are we getting in the fall 1,200 horsepower now you are it doesn't feel like it well we still going a little slow the other thing is that the batteries you know when it's warm that performance improves as well because we get lower DC internal resistance in rails and she's quite cool now but as we drive her a little bit more she'll get faster and faster man this is obviously a world car you can sell in anywhere right well I don't think we can sell it in Europe they don't allow homologation because if you modify a car in Europe they have Type Approval you have to meet type approval rules so I'd say this the u.s. spec car and wherever you could import a good luck to you I mean itself us Saudi Arabia be alright simplified Middle East has no issue right they just as long as ever been there fine the other thing is you know we call it we call it stealth driving no one knows you're coming right right and that's what grateful we try to love you know night driving I mean I always tell people all the fun is between 40 21 20 that's it I mean now if you're running above 185 you're just gonna prison yeah freaking for years but yes and you lose a car and you lose everything I mean I find most manufacturers now just limiting it to 12 or 205 right just because hey there's no tire available that's true that'll do it and second of all it's like the bugatti chiron you pay $25,000 a tire because the tire must do that and I'll have to change the tire every year right because you know they have to go into you something you're running 270 miles now all day long time yeah yeah because that's that's that's what it's sold them well there's a friend of mine who had a Veyron and when it came up for his first service and his wife saw the bill that was the end of the Veyron yeah right right yeah yeah exactly to me I top speed is irrelevant actually because it really becomes stoplight to stoplight in it agree but for us you know for long-distance cruising we just felt that you want it to be have a very relaxed feel and high speed right right and if you're running aggressive gearing right then even at your desired 120 it still feels very highly strung yeah we won't have it it's much more you know I would say it's much more like a like a Mercedes v12 Biturbo right where you know you're doing 120 plus miles an hour and it's you know it's it's 2200 rpm right and that's the sensation we wanted because he wind the power up like a top you know with the gearbox of the key ring at 120 she doesn't feel well what size you looking at this 2021 we're running 295 s on the front and 315 s on the back she likes to have a very symmetrical sort of you know front to rear tire distribution I don't know I'd go more aggressive gearing down low give you more a little more acceleration that's that was impossible I was expecting acceleration to blow me Wayne it's fast but it doesn't feel 1,200 horsepower fans I mean again I think my p1 would pull it the p1 would followers it's a lot lighter Trey we stuck the p1 is almost you know 1500 pounds like two dollars easy so that's the issue right we're carrying our our power source with that thread oh she's got plenty of power that's for sure yes she does have plenty of foreign more importantly that power is available anywhere right right irrespective what throttle opening you're at yeah most electric cars are limited it's about 140 someway after that thing this will pull all the way to what 207 two four six yes she'll keep pulling all the way yeah yeah it is relentless all the way all right there you go not really so do you have a factory now or just billing one at a time sort of a piecemeal Kennedy um actually we have a fairly you know decent sized facility right and we you know gonna make multiple cars at writing time we expect to deliver several cars in 2020 right cool all basically the same model a four-door that's it's the same model it is you know the GTE you know Grand Touring electric that is our you know our brand and our platform right you know gonna build us 25 and prove that we can build you know a bespoke motorcar that you know can be enjoyed on road and track you know I love new car companies coming along and starting because they're live in a world now everything is negative it keeps things keep being eliminated so to get more car companies coming in especially not mechanical based car companies electronic based car companies so you're starting with clean sheet of paper as far as electricity and all that you know charging systems new kind of batteries you know it's not all based on old school which I think is I think it's just just fascinating you know I always predicted that we will live in an era of boutique manufacturing where you use for example you saw to have an out you find the best brakes Brembo you put those on the car you find the best hydraulic or electric steering unit you put and you sort of assemble a car using only the finest parts available at the time you know for example you're building your own battery you're doing your own motors with you you mentioned what if what was the technical term you used for it you know we actually call it drive you know called you know the drive algorithm right because I have to spin right it's auntie slip and it's you know differential talk but it's your technology it's right yeah so that I mean I find that fascinating well it's the shift J right from mechanical right to software right right the cars are optimized around you know the software control because you know once you get to commodity batteries and motors the road differentiator is in the software right right the driving experience the programmability the feel of the car it's all all in software because there are you know very very few mechanical components in this car as I said there are no differentials so you just got really the only old-school you think you have here is probably the brakes and maybe the steering gear maybe the steering gear yeah yeah so well anyway it's exciting it's a new frontier and it's great to see new car companies come along thank you very much my friend thank you Joe thank youshe's got plenty of power that's for sure yes she does have plenty of power more importantly that power is available anywhere right right irrespective what throttle opening you're at relentless all the way and there you go night it really really beautiful some of Jalen's garage the cover featuring today the 2020 Drako GTE if you've never heard of it well there's a reason for it because this is the very first one you know I find it fascinating in an era where car companies were disappearing an alarming rate in the 80s and 90s Pontiac and Oldsmobile and all of a sudden we have new car companies coming in Tesla McLaren now we have Draco and a number of others and I think it's it's really a testament to American ingenuity and an engineering let's me ship the co-founder of Draco motors how are you hi Dre thanks for having me here well thanks for coming I I find this fascinating this is all-electric car it is it's 1,200 horsepower 1,200 horsepower okay with four motors the advantage to four motors as opposed to to the essences the motors are inboard and they are driven by half shafts but there's four of them which means that this is the first production automobile that has no differentials you know so the motors control the wheels directly in both directions okay the front but all four motors are the same horsepower or their more they are they are identical this car is is perfectly symmetrical so we have 300 horsepower approximately at each corner I'm giving you that 1,200 total okay and lithium-ion batteries lithium ion batteries absolutely okay and how many volts is it um this car is 450 volts okay for in 50 well it's okay that's not outrageous oh no I mean there's there's you know movement towards you know eight hundred volt architecture obviously because you can you can reduce the current but we built as cars as a 450 car and it almost seems like 1,200 horsepower is an unheard-of number in the production actually 1,200 horsepower is a great number but the real you know differentiating factor of electric cars to talk and this car can produce 6500 foot pounds of wheel talk that's it I mean it's there's not even a dyno that can register that much there isn't they will just break yeah I'll just break okay were you setting out to make us actually this is a four-seater luxury it is Oh sort of design ethos was that the electric supercar needs to be massively usable right you need to have good ground clearance you need to be able to take passengers you maybe throw the kids in the back throw a few bags in the back so you know it's if we want to sort of reinvent this whole notion of of Grand Touring right so what is the goal here is a coal to have proprietary technology you can sell to other manufacturers is it to build a car company where do you see it going we would really like to build cars that's our passion right that's what drives us and we're not sure exactly what the future will bring but we are heavily focused on building you know exhilarating driver-focused supercars now this car is what a million to five it is indeed we're building 25 pieces to order for discerning ladies and gentlemen I mean in an era when the Porsche Cayenne Turbo is 184 the Tesla 150 obviously not this much horsepower but not dissimilar I mean I mean those are two of the fastest accelerating cars you can buy at ten times more the price so when you think about these current electric cars they're very good at accelerating in a straight line the super power behind this car is the fact that this car can rotate like no other car in fact the reason we got into this is because we want to change the fundamental paradigm of how a vehicle is steered think back to a tray we go back to Henry Ford and and Mercedes Benz you have one engine and then you have a bunch of differentials and a steering wheel and you hope that when you turn the wheel the car will go where you want it to go in this car it's integrated the car knows for example that you want to turn because we look at multiple variables including the steering angle sensor the brake and accelerator position we compute the slip angle lateral jury wheel speed sensors so this car can turn like no other car and hope that when you drive it you'll feel that it actually you know makes your brain stop working well it's not her make my brain stopped working actually b-side was accused of that through high school is it four-wheel steering it is not for wheels during the secret is using differential talk to rotate the car because as you know when you go around a corner arc described by the outer wheels and the inner wheels is different right it's turning it different which is why you need a differential right well this car doesn't have any differentials and that control occurs in software and that's in the forward direction but to truly control the car you need to be able to decelerate the wheel as well and traditionally in a regular car you have to use the brakes mm-hmm right but in a car with no differential and electric motors you can decelerate each wheel individually in milliseconds so you get very very low latency and essentially full digital wheel control in both directions so are you read Jenning also as you decelerate we can so there's a multiple options for rejoining so we can regen and we can talk about that later when you drive the car will show you the controls but there are multiple regen modes that you can engage or even disable regen I can't tell if visually the wheelbase is long it's just the fact that the wheels are said at the far for example you look at the Citroen us over there the D s people think it's quite a long wheelbase but the wheels are set so far out at the corners and it gives the illusion of it I can't tell if that's the case here what is the wheelbase about a hundred and sixteen that's exactly right hundred okay okay yeah because it looks like a long car but it's probably the same wheelbase as the Tesla s is that about it's about the same you know our goal here I mean the reason it looks long is because the car is read pushed down to the ground through the styling elements right and it has that stance and it it's meant to evoke that long bonnet look of a Targa Florio or a Mille Miglia right that was our design inspiration like I would say that probably the a6 GCS Maserati will probably be the starting point of that long bonnet vision so is this patented technology this torque vectoring that you have does everybody anybody else have this I believe you know other people claim to have it we do hold several patents on it but you know the thing about a car is that you know it needs to be able to perform in a wide variety of conditions right and developing that software takes a long time and you know our chief engineer has been working on it for over ten years CCI just never heard of this company until literally the car showed up right well we've been you know we want it to be stuff because as you know Dre a lot of people are announcing electric cars right that you know you know maybe there's a picture of them or Orenda but we wanted to have you know a full production car running at full speed before we told anybody anything right right this is the fruit of Labor know that's admirable no it's fascinating I mean the price is so staggering is what is what sort of throws people off you go oh if I finance that that's ten thousand months that you know it gets a little well in order to build a scourge a we had to create our own battery there are no commodity components in this car this is a bespoke hand-built car including the battery we built a 90 kilowatt hour battery that's in the floor of the car that produces 2200 hours of pulse current and it can do 1,800 amps of continuous current that's that's a megawatt at 450 volts so in order to build that kind of technology I mean we don't have a Giga factory so you know the costs are because of our extremely small series production is it is it a series of small bodies put together all one the battery starts off we have a brick that's the brick is 88 cells in parallel right and then we have a hundred and eight of those in series okay and in fact this because this car already had a tunnel the batteries actually are you shaped and so we they've been we've been able to fit 90 kilowatt hours into into the floor what you say this car already had a tunnel so you develop the car before you develop the battery well this car we reused you know a VIN so that's how we were able to have a street-legal car where we're modern you know next generation hot rodders essentially I got well so what was it what was the what was the platform this is a 2012 Fiske Kharma oh okay okay gotcha so you're starting with that though that chassis well you see you know Elin started the same way with the Lotus Elise right yeah there was a roadster here yesterday so you know we decided that it was the best way to be able to get the car on the road because you know and you've said in several of your shows and build all these cars but then you can never run them on the road right so this allows us to be a 50 state legal and available to buy anywhere in the United States okay so you haven't crashed head of this as a Draco yeah we we're not required to oh but we haven't made you know significant changes to the crusher in fact we've made no changes to the cross structure at all so this car is you know is perfectly homologated right has airbags you know all the safety features and everything you need brakes our car white carbon ceramic Brembo carbon ceramic 395 six Pistons up front cool and how does this there's no so you need the you need the key so you can't say honey go wait in the car okay well she can have our own key so anybody have the key just to get in the car well you know I think mr. conics us call meets you know a key is Walter you say there's no transmission so your direct drive through all with direct drive we actually have four gearboxes in the car right right and those provide the reduction so we have a five point five six to one reduction ratio and that's what gives us the the top multiplication because you know people often say well you know sure why you're quoting a wheel talk number instead of a motor talk number and we always quote wheel talk because we only have a single gear right and so you're getting that that multiplication all the time because you're not shifting so your front motors but out of all four motors put it exactly the same perfect some internal bias there is a bias control switch and we can talk about the controls later but you can bias the car any way you want okay so you can go symmetrical all-wheel drive which is obviously the preferred mode of operation on very twisty roads you could back the front power off a little bit to help the car turn because you don't want to overpower the front but it just depends on the driving conditions the chorus is program from that stuff but it wouldn't do that automatically oh no we don't believe that you want to do that dynamically this is this is done to optimize driver feel because we're really focusing on driver capability okay so the individual driver can just set it up the way he or she well he can just dynamically change it depending on the road that he's on right on a fast you know sweeper at 120 it's different - may be very tight turns at 55 in the canyons and Nevada is there liquid cool the batteries are liquid cooled there are eight electric pumps there's three radiators in the front as well as a high voltage compressor that cools the glycol so url's want to keep the batteries what about 74 degrees I'm actually they want to be you know batteries are closer to being around room temperature between you sort of 30 to 45 degrees yeah that's 70 I apologize I'm a centigrade man yeah okay yeah and who is the designer the designer of the cross blow ever mich he was creative director at Pininfarina for a long time and he now has his own company called grand studio and they're in turin i believe the last sort of famous car that they did was the for 580 italia okay all right let's walk around and see it's really a striking car and you've got a proper trunk front and back I imagine well no we'll we'll pull the hood off we'll pull the hood open so you can see the front there's a lot of hardware in this car to get that 1200 horsepower we have four motors so they takes up all the space in the front so there is no front we have a real engine bay which I'm very looking forward to showing you and what is what is the car way the car weighs 50 300 pounds okay but all the weight is extremely low it has a very low center of gravity about seventeen and a very low polar moment of inertia now you open the trunk we certainly can we can open the trunk and you see you know J what we have here's the rest of the powertrain well haven't seen the front yet but we have two inverters two motors two gearboxes and that you're charged for it right there there are two trucks once we have a DC fast charge for as well as a standard j7 272 for AC charging so you've got out of the trunk open to charges well in this car J we just couldn't bear to cut any holes in the body once we've seen it but for customer cars they can specify whichever location they'd like typically you know on the rear fender so once an AC charger wins a DC correct we support DC fast charging up to 150 kilowatts with either shadow mo or CCS depending on the customers preference now you said engine and gearbox two gearboxes back here is it a two-speed we had single speed we have a single speed 5.56 to one reduction ratio but essentially we have two gearboxes in a single housing so you have two motors going into two gearboxes in a single central housing and two independent output shafts okay right and then we have exactly the same up front okay and then of course each motor has an inverter and the inverter is the the heart of an electric car that's what converts the voltage DC into AC right right right okay what are your losses with the gearbox you know the gearbox losses are extremely low yeah because there is no shifting there's no clutch there's no multi-plate anything and of course there's no differentials right so there's the losses are extremely low okay yeah I would think you'd want to have some sort of Porter cuz then they'll leave your trunk open to charge it well again it depends where you're going to charge your car but like I say this was just you we just couldn't bear it well where would you like your tragic a production car will have door handles because it seems like anytime Bob we got anything out of the car yeah I mean you can't get to it yes we've actually developed a new sense of technology yeah which will allow you to just you know place your hand and the door will open we open the front absolutely I'll go or I'll go around this side oh the whole thing comes off it does well that's convenient honey would you get the honey would you and little Timmy get the hook so these are your two separate motors here those aren't the motors right those the inversion I mean the inverter indeed and you can see that you know the high voltage cables in that so we have five cables because you have two DC and then three-phase AC and then underneath the black units or the motors and in the center or the two gearbox one of these copper cables there they are they are copper red copper yeah that's right oh you got a lot of fluid moving around here right so cooling is you know a big part of the car we have three radiators and remember we're not just cooling the motors we're cooling the high voltage electronics and the torches the inverters the DC DC converter and of course importantly the battery guide to get where your hydraulic pump so does it so the steering is like electrically driven but it's it's it's high it's got its it's hydraulic right so it still has you know a lot of good feel to it okay so that runs on its own separate it runs off its own separate 12-volt power supply right it's provided by but it's not separate fluid doesn't use this yes yes no it uses a hydraulic fluid Raul absolutely and there you see you know the hydraulic brakes as well you see the brake master and tell us about the name was the name come from the name comes from my business partner Dean Drake oh okay and it's a very cool name and he's a he's a car enthusiast obviously he is like me a major car enthusiast so this is all Fisker you know see or well the the actually underlie to the skeleton right right is is a Fisker and you know significant modifications have taken place to the car and so I don't believe there's very many physical components left in the car at all cool well very good what are the other features before we go for drive traditional headlights and lighting and all of that is fairly traditional I think the main thing is you know the all system of the vehicle that what we call it the quarter manettino and we will fiddle with those you know as we're driving right but again the main differentiator for this car is its handling prowess the fact of how it can rotate particularly post apex you know when a lot of cars drape and when you drive them on track you have to wait post a pie because you get on the gas too early she's not gonna go around the corner right right well this car you can get into the throttle extremely early in fact it challenges you corner after corner to get into the throttle even earlier it's actually quite a you know a wonderful minor be taking it to Nurburgring or any other place not yet but we did develop our technology at the Nordschleife where in fact we were there four years ago with our prototype and we actually set a a street-legal record oh okay okay has that been broken since it has been broken since you know with this latest you know Porsche roses you know Tesla right but again it was we weren't focused on it necessarily for you know the overall lap time but we will you know it's a wonderful place to develop dynamics of your vehicle at high speed so there's really no maintenance for the customer to do other maybe brake pads it's like your Baker electric right once the last time you did any maintenance on that I never have in 1909 with a Yugo so it's the same so you know the reason why we didn't mind having that clamshell hood was because the only time you're already going to take the hood off is to show it to your buddies and they can help you take it off in your range is how much the range are on those standard WL TP cyclists 250 miles electricity like sex guys just lie about it you know it's one of those deals you know okay I like electric motorcycles they come and they go this cause 100 miles on the charge and then I get on and they go 27 and a half well let's put it this way Jake this is a 1200 horsepower supercar right it has a dastardly desire to suck electrons right right so you know you can discharge this car at an extremely high rate but you can also charge it at an extremely high rate we can maintain you know maximum charging current up to about 90 to 93 percent in contrast to a lot of lesser batteries that you really have to back off at camicus at how long how long does it charge on a hundred 50 kilowatt charger we can charge it in about 30 minutes but on full charge that's a full jar full charge and you can do a 80 percent charge Riggin a 90 percent charge you know in 24 minutes well that's impressive let's uh let's put the hood on and take a risk minutes let's do it cool very cool all right let's give it a shot okay can you press two to let me in oh I got pushed to to let you in all right you slow do you want to come back forward here we go so press the brake got the brake press and then hit the hit the button hit the power button let it go yes the keyword this call was you know we really wanted to focus on top speed right and go 200 plus miles an hour and so when you have a single gear ratio you have to you know choose the fine balance between ground acceleration and top speed right because we don't you know the two-speed gearbox rather those are interesting but it kind of ruin some of them you know simplicity and elegance of a motor design you know because you now introducing more mechanical drive that is not really required so just quite addicting you get a sound so it feels higher right right you hear that very turbine and it's all drive-by-wire correct yes I mean there are no cable are we getting in the fall 1,200 horsepower now you are it doesn't feel like it well we still going a little slow the other thing is that the batteries you know when it's warm that performance improves as well because we get lower DC internal resistance in rails and she's quite cool now but as we drive her a little bit more she'll get faster and faster man this is obviously a world car you can sell in anywhere right well I don't think we can sell it in Europe they don't allow homologation because if you modify a car in Europe they have Type Approval you have to meet type approval rules so I'd say this the u.s. spec car and wherever you could import a good luck to you I mean itself us Saudi Arabia be alright simplified Middle East has no issue right they just as long as ever been there fine the other thing is you know we call it we call it stealth driving no one knows you're coming right right and that's what grateful we try to love you know night driving I mean I always tell people all the fun is between 40 21 20 that's it I mean now if you're running above 185 you're just gonna prison yeah freaking for years but yes and you lose a car and you lose everything I mean I find most manufacturers now just limiting it to 12 or 205 right just because hey there's no tire available that's true that'll do it and second of all it's like the bugatti chiron you pay $25,000 a tire because the tire must do that and I'll have to change the tire every year right because you know they have to go into you something you're running 270 miles now all day long time yeah yeah because that's that's that's what it's sold them well there's a friend of mine who had a Veyron and when it came up for his first service and his wife saw the bill that was the end of the Veyron yeah right right yeah yeah exactly to me I top speed is irrelevant actually because it really becomes stoplight to stoplight in it agree but for us you know for long-distance cruising we just felt that you want it to be have a very relaxed feel and high speed right right and if you're running aggressive gearing right then even at your desired 120 it still feels very highly strung yeah we won't have it it's much more you know I would say it's much more like a like a Mercedes v12 Biturbo right where you know you're doing 120 plus miles an hour and it's you know it's it's 2200 rpm right and that's the sensation we wanted because he wind the power up like a top you know with the gearbox of the key ring at 120 she doesn't feel well what size you looking at this 2021 we're running 295 s on the front and 315 s on the back she likes to have a very symmetrical sort of you know front to rear tire distribution I don't know I'd go more aggressive gearing down low give you more a little more acceleration that's that was impossible I was expecting acceleration to blow me Wayne it's fast but it doesn't feel 1,200 horsepower fans I mean again I think my p1 would pull it the p1 would followers it's a lot lighter Trey we stuck the p1 is almost you know 1500 pounds like two dollars easy so that's the issue right we're carrying our our power source with that thread oh she's got plenty of power that's for sure yes she does have plenty of foreign more importantly that power is available anywhere right right irrespective what throttle opening you're at yeah most electric cars are limited it's about 140 someway after that thing this will pull all the way to what 207 two four six yes she'll keep pulling all the way yeah yeah it is relentless all the way all right there you go not really so do you have a factory now or just billing one at a time sort of a piecemeal Kennedy um actually we have a fairly you know decent sized facility right and we you know gonna make multiple cars at writing time we expect to deliver several cars in 2020 right cool all basically the same model a four-door that's it's the same model it is you know the GTE you know Grand Touring electric that is our you know our brand and our platform right you know gonna build us 25 and prove that we can build you know a bespoke motorcar that you know can be enjoyed on road and track you know I love new car companies coming along and starting because they're live in a world now everything is negative it keeps things keep being eliminated so to get more car companies coming in especially not mechanical based car companies electronic based car companies so you're starting with clean sheet of paper as far as electricity and all that you know charging systems new kind of batteries you know it's not all based on old school which I think is I think it's just just fascinating you know I always predicted that we will live in an era of boutique manufacturing where you use for example you saw to have an out you find the best brakes Brembo you put those on the car you find the best hydraulic or electric steering unit you put and you sort of assemble a car using only the finest parts available at the time you know for example you're building your own battery you're doing your own motors with you you mentioned what if what was the technical term you used for it you know we actually call it drive you know called you know the drive algorithm right because I have to spin right it's auntie slip and it's you know differential talk but it's your technology it's right yeah so that I mean I find that fascinating well it's the shift J right from mechanical right to software right right the cars are optimized around you know the software control because you know once you get to commodity batteries and motors the road differentiator is in the software right right the driving experience the programmability the feel of the car it's all all in software because there are you know very very few mechanical components in this car as I said there are no differentials so you just got really the only old-school you think you have here is probably the brakes and maybe the steering gear maybe the steering gear yeah yeah so well anyway it's exciting it's a new frontier and it's great to see new car companies come along thank you very much my friend thank you Joe thank youshe's got plenty of power that's for sure yes she does have plenty of power more importantly that power is available anywhere right right irrespective what throttle opening you're at relentless all the way and there you go night it really really beautiful some of Jalen's garage the cover featuring today the 2020 Drako GTE if you've never heard of it well there's a reason for it because this is the very first one you know I find it fascinating in an era where car companies were disappearing an alarming rate in the 80s and 90s Pontiac and Oldsmobile and all of a sudden we have new car companies coming in Tesla McLaren now we have Draco and a number of others and I think it's it's really a testament to American ingenuity and an engineering let's me ship the co-founder of Draco motors how are you hi Dre thanks for having me here well thanks for coming I I find this fascinating this is all-electric car it is it's 1,200 horsepower 1,200 horsepower okay with four motors the advantage to four motors as opposed to to the essences the motors are inboard and they are driven by half shafts but there's four of them which means that this is the first production automobile that has no differentials you know so the motors control the wheels directly in both directions okay the front but all four motors are the same horsepower or their more they are they are identical this car is is perfectly symmetrical so we have 300 horsepower approximately at each corner I'm giving you that 1,200 total okay and lithium-ion batteries lithium ion batteries absolutely okay and how many volts is it um this car is 450 volts okay for in 50 well it's okay that's not outrageous oh no I mean there's there's you know movement towards you know eight hundred volt architecture obviously because you can you can reduce the current but we built as cars as a 450 car and it almost seems like 1,200 horsepower is an unheard-of number in the production actually 1,200 horsepower is a great number but the real you know differentiating factor of electric cars to talk and this car can produce 6500 foot pounds of wheel talk that's it I mean it's there's not even a dyno that can register that much there isn't they will just break yeah I'll just break okay were you setting out to make us actually this is a four-seater luxury it is Oh sort of design ethos was that the electric supercar needs to be massively usable right you need to have good ground clearance you need to be able to take passengers you maybe throw the kids in the back throw a few bags in the back so you know it's if we want to sort of reinvent this whole notion of of Grand Touring right so what is the goal here is a coal to have proprietary technology you can sell to other manufacturers is it to build a car company where do you see it going we would really like to build cars that's our passion right that's what drives us and we're not sure exactly what the future will bring but we are heavily focused on building you know exhilarating driver-focused supercars now this car is what a million to five it is indeed we're building 25 pieces to order for discerning ladies and gentlemen I mean in an era when the Porsche Cayenne Turbo is 184 the Tesla 150 obviously not this much horsepower but not dissimilar I mean I mean those are two of the fastest accelerating cars you can buy at ten times more the price so when you think about these current electric cars they're very good at accelerating in a straight line the super power behind this car is the fact that this car can rotate like no other car in fact the reason we got into this is because we want to change the fundamental paradigm of how a vehicle is steered think back to a tray we go back to Henry Ford and and Mercedes Benz you have one engine and then you have a bunch of differentials and a steering wheel and you hope that when you turn the wheel the car will go where you want it to go in this car it's integrated the car knows for example that you want to turn because we look at multiple variables including the steering angle sensor the brake and accelerator position we compute the slip angle lateral jury wheel speed sensors so this car can turn like no other car and hope that when you drive it you'll feel that it actually you know makes your brain stop working well it's not her make my brain stopped working actually b-side was accused of that through high school is it four-wheel steering it is not for wheels during the secret is using differential talk to rotate the car because as you know when you go around a corner arc described by the outer wheels and the inner wheels is different right it's turning it different which is why you need a differential right well this car doesn't have any differentials and that control occurs in software and that's in the forward direction but to truly control the car you need to be able to decelerate the wheel as well and traditionally in a regular car you have to use the brakes mm-hmm right but in a car with no differential and electric motors you can decelerate each wheel individually in milliseconds so you get very very low latency and essentially full digital wheel control in both directions so are you read Jenning also as you decelerate we can so there's a multiple options for rejoining so we can regen and we can talk about that later when you drive the car will show you the controls but there are multiple regen modes that you can engage or even disable regen I can't tell if visually the wheelbase is long it's just the fact that the wheels are said at the far for example you look at the Citroen us over there the D s people think it's quite a long wheelbase but the wheels are set so far out at the corners and it gives the illusion of it I can't tell if that's the case here what is the wheelbase about a hundred and sixteen that's exactly right hundred okay okay yeah because it looks like a long car but it's probably the same wheelbase as the Tesla s is that about it's about the same you know our goal here I mean the reason it looks long is because the car is read pushed down to the ground through the styling elements right and it has that stance and it it's meant to evoke that long bonnet look of a Targa Florio or a Mille Miglia right that was our design inspiration like I would say that probably the a6 GCS Maserati will probably be the starting point of that long bonnet vision so is this patented technology this torque vectoring that you have does everybody anybody else have this I believe you know other people claim to have it we do hold several patents on it but you know the thing about a car is that you know it needs to be able to perform in a wide variety of conditions right and developing that software takes a long time and you know our chief engineer has been working on it for over ten years CCI just never heard of this company until literally the car showed up right well we've been you know we want it to be stuff because as you know Dre a lot of people are announcing electric cars right that you know you know maybe there's a picture of them or Orenda but we wanted to have you know a full production car running at full speed before we told anybody anything right right this is the fruit of Labor know that's admirable no it's fascinating I mean the price is so staggering is what is what sort of throws people off you go oh if I finance that that's ten thousand months that you know it gets a little well in order to build a scourge a we had to create our own battery there are no commodity components in this car this is a bespoke hand-built car including the battery we built a 90 kilowatt hour battery that's in the floor of the car that produces 2200 hours of pulse current and it can do 1,800 amps of continuous current that's that's a megawatt at 450 volts so in order to build that kind of technology I mean we don't have a Giga factory so you know the costs are because of our extremely small series production is it is it a series of small bodies put together all one the battery starts off we have a brick that's the brick is 88 cells in parallel right and then we have a hundred and eight of those in series okay and in fact this because this car already had a tunnel the batteries actually are you shaped and so we they've been we've been able to fit 90 kilowatt hours into into the floor what you say this car already had a tunnel so you develop the car before you develop the battery well this car we reused you know a VIN so that's how we were able to have a street-legal car where we're modern you know next generation hot rodders essentially I got well so what was it what was the what was the platform this is a 2012 Fiske Kharma oh okay okay gotcha so you're starting with that though that chassis well you see you know Elin started the same way with the Lotus Elise right yeah there was a roadster here yesterday so you know we decided that it was the best way to be able to get the car on the road because you know and you've said in several of your shows and build all these cars but then you can never run them on the road right so this allows us to be a 50 state legal and available to buy anywhere in the United States okay so you haven't crashed head of this as a Draco yeah we we're not required to oh but we haven't made you know significant changes to the crusher in fact we've made no changes to the cross structure at all so this car is you know is perfectly homologated right has airbags you know all the safety features and everything you need brakes our car white carbon ceramic Brembo carbon ceramic 395 six Pistons up front cool and how does this there's no so you need the you need the key so you can't say honey go wait in the car okay well she can have our own key so anybody have the key just to get in the car well you know I think mr. conics us call meets you know a key is Walter you say there's no transmission so your direct drive through all with direct drive we actually have four gearboxes in the car right right and those provide the reduction so we have a five point five six to one reduction ratio and that's what gives us the the top multiplication because you know people often say well you know sure why you're quoting a wheel talk number instead of a motor talk number and we always quote wheel talk because we only have a single gear right and so you're getting that that multiplication all the time because you're not shifting so your front motors but out of all four motors put it exactly the same perfect some internal bias there is a bias control switch and we can talk about the controls later but you can bias the car any way you want okay so you can go symmetrical all-wheel drive which is obviously the preferred mode of operation on very twisty roads you could back the front power off a little bit to help the car turn because you don't want to overpower the front but it just depends on the driving conditions the chorus is program from that stuff but it wouldn't do that automatically oh no we don't believe that you want to do that dynamically this is this is done to optimize driver feel because we're really focusing on driver capability okay so the individual driver can just set it up the way he or she well he can just dynamically change it depending on the road that he's on right on a fast you know sweeper at 120 it's different - may be very tight turns at 55 in the canyons and Nevada is there liquid cool the batteries are liquid cooled there are eight electric pumps there's three radiators in the front as well as a high voltage compressor that cools the glycol so url's want to keep the batteries what about 74 degrees I'm actually they want to be you know batteries are closer to being around room temperature between you sort of 30 to 45 degrees yeah that's 70 I apologize I'm a centigrade man yeah okay yeah and who is the designer the designer of the cross blow ever mich he was creative director at Pininfarina for a long time and he now has his own company called grand studio and they're in turin i believe the last sort of famous car that they did was the for 580 italia okay all right let's walk around and see it's really a striking car and you've got a proper trunk front and back I imagine well no we'll we'll pull the hood off we'll pull the hood open so you can see the front there's a lot of hardware in this car to get that 1200 horsepower we have four motors so they takes up all the space in the front so there is no front we have a real engine bay which I'm very looking forward to showing you and what is what is the car way the car weighs 50 300 pounds okay but all the weight is extremely low it has a very low center of gravity about seventeen and a very low polar moment of inertia now you open the trunk we certainly can we can open the trunk and you see you know J what we have here's the rest of the powertrain well haven't seen the front yet but we have two inverters two motors two gearboxes and that you're charged for it right there there are two trucks once we have a DC fast charge for as well as a standard j7 272 for AC charging so you've got out of the trunk open to charges well in this car J we just couldn't bear to cut any holes in the body once we've seen it but for customer cars they can specify whichever location they'd like typically you know on the rear fender so once an AC charger wins a DC correct we support DC fast charging up to 150 kilowatts with either shadow mo or CCS depending on the customers preference now you said engine and gearbox two gearboxes back here is it a two-speed we had single speed we have a single speed 5.56 to one reduction ratio but essentially we have two gearboxes in a single housing so you have two motors going into two gearboxes in a single central housing and two independent output shafts okay right and then we have exactly the same up front okay and then of course each motor has an inverter and the inverter is the the heart of an electric car that's what converts the voltage DC into AC right right right okay what are your losses with the gearbox you know the gearbox losses are extremely low yeah because there is no shifting there's no clutch there's no multi-plate anything and of course there's no differentials right so there's the losses are extremely low okay yeah I would think you'd want to have some sort of Porter cuz then they'll leave your trunk open to charge it well again it depends where you're going to charge your car but like I say this was just you we just couldn't bear it well where would you like your tragic a production car will have door handles because it seems like anytime Bob we got anything out of the car yeah I mean you can't get to it yes we've actually developed a new sense of technology yeah which will allow you to just you know place your hand and the door will open we open the front absolutely I'll go or I'll go around this side oh the whole thing comes off it does well that's convenient honey would you get the honey would you and little Timmy get the hook so these are your two separate motors here those aren't the motors right those the inversion I mean the inverter indeed and you can see that you know the high voltage cables in that so we have five cables because you have two DC and then three-phase AC and then underneath the black units or the motors and in the center or the two gearbox one of these copper cables there they are they are copper red copper yeah that's right oh you got a lot of fluid moving around here right so cooling is you know a big part of the car we have three radiators and remember we're not just cooling the motors we're cooling the high voltage electronics and the torches the inverters the DC DC converter and of course importantly the battery guide to get where your hydraulic pump so does it so the steering is like electrically driven but it's it's it's high it's got its it's hydraulic right so it still has you know a lot of good feel to it okay so that runs on its own separate it runs off its own separate 12-volt power supply right it's provided by but it's not separate fluid doesn't use this yes yes no it uses a hydraulic fluid Raul absolutely and there you see you know the hydraulic brakes as well you see the brake master and tell us about the name was the name come from the name comes from my business partner Dean Drake oh okay and it's a very cool name and he's a he's a car enthusiast obviously he is like me a major car enthusiast so this is all Fisker you know see or well the the actually underlie to the skeleton right right is is a Fisker and you know significant modifications have taken place to the car and so I don't believe there's very many physical components left in the car at all cool well very good what are the other features before we go for drive traditional headlights and lighting and all of that is fairly traditional I think the main thing is you know the all system of the vehicle that what we call it the quarter manettino and we will fiddle with those you know as we're driving right but again the main differentiator for this car is its handling prowess the fact of how it can rotate particularly post apex you know when a lot of cars drape and when you drive them on track you have to wait post a pie because you get on the gas too early she's not gonna go around the corner right right well this car you can get into the throttle extremely early in fact it challenges you corner after corner to get into the throttle even earlier it's actually quite a you know a wonderful minor be taking it to Nurburgring or any other place not yet but we did develop our technology at the Nordschleife where in fact we were there four years ago with our prototype and we actually set a a street-legal record oh okay okay has that been broken since it has been broken since you know with this latest you know Porsche roses you know Tesla right but again it was we weren't focused on it necessarily for you know the overall lap time but we will you know it's a wonderful place to develop dynamics of your vehicle at high speed so there's really no maintenance for the customer to do other maybe brake pads it's like your Baker electric right once the last time you did any maintenance on that I never have in 1909 with a Yugo so it's the same so you know the reason why we didn't mind having that clamshell hood was because the only time you're already going to take the hood off is to show it to your buddies and they can help you take it off in your range is how much the range are on those standard WL TP cyclists 250 miles electricity like sex guys just lie about it you know it's one of those deals you know okay I like electric motorcycles they come and they go this cause 100 miles on the charge and then I get on and they go 27 and a half well let's put it this way Jake this is a 1200 horsepower supercar right it has a dastardly desire to suck electrons right right so you know you can discharge this car at an extremely high rate but you can also charge it at an extremely high rate we can maintain you know maximum charging current up to about 90 to 93 percent in contrast to a lot of lesser batteries that you really have to back off at camicus at how long how long does it charge on a hundred 50 kilowatt charger we can charge it in about 30 minutes but on full charge that's a full jar full charge and you can do a 80 percent charge Riggin a 90 percent charge you know in 24 minutes well that's impressive let's uh let's put the hood on and take a risk minutes let's do it cool very cool all right let's give it a shot okay can you press two to let me in oh I got pushed to to let you in all right you slow do you want to come back forward here we go so press the brake got the brake press and then hit the hit the button hit the power button let it go yes the keyword this call was you know we really wanted to focus on top speed right and go 200 plus miles an hour and so when you have a single gear ratio you have to you know choose the fine balance between ground acceleration and top speed right because we don't you know the two-speed gearbox rather those are interesting but it kind of ruin some of them you know simplicity and elegance of a motor design you know because you now introducing more mechanical drive that is not really required so just quite addicting you get a sound so it feels higher right right you hear that very turbine and it's all drive-by-wire correct yes I mean there are no cable are we getting in the fall 1,200 horsepower now you are it doesn't feel like it well we still going a little slow the other thing is that the batteries you know when it's warm that performance improves as well because we get lower DC internal resistance in rails and she's quite cool now but as we drive her a little bit more she'll get faster and faster man this is obviously a world car you can sell in anywhere right well I don't think we can sell it in Europe they don't allow homologation because if you modify a car in Europe they have Type Approval you have to meet type approval rules so I'd say this the u.s. spec car and wherever you could import a good luck to you I mean itself us Saudi Arabia be alright simplified Middle East has no issue right they just as long as ever been there fine the other thing is you know we call it we call it stealth driving no one knows you're coming right right and that's what grateful we try to love you know night driving I mean I always tell people all the fun is between 40 21 20 that's it I mean now if you're running above 185 you're just gonna prison yeah freaking for years but yes and you lose a car and you lose everything I mean I find most manufacturers now just limiting it to 12 or 205 right just because hey there's no tire available that's true that'll do it and second of all it's like the bugatti chiron you pay $25,000 a tire because the tire must do that and I'll have to change the tire every year right because you know they have to go into you something you're running 270 miles now all day long time yeah yeah because that's that's that's what it's sold them well there's a friend of mine who had a Veyron and when it came up for his first service and his wife saw the bill that was the end of the Veyron yeah right right yeah yeah exactly to me I top speed is irrelevant actually because it really becomes stoplight to stoplight in it agree but for us you know for long-distance cruising we just felt that you want it to be have a very relaxed feel and high speed right right and if you're running aggressive gearing right then even at your desired 120 it still feels very highly strung yeah we won't have it it's much more you know I would say it's much more like a like a Mercedes v12 Biturbo right where you know you're doing 120 plus miles an hour and it's you know it's it's 2200 rpm right and that's the sensation we wanted because he wind the power up like a top you know with the gearbox of the key ring at 120 she doesn't feel well what size you looking at this 2021 we're running 295 s on the front and 315 s on the back she likes to have a very symmetrical sort of you know front to rear tire distribution I don't know I'd go more aggressive gearing down low give you more a little more acceleration that's that was impossible I was expecting acceleration to blow me Wayne it's fast but it doesn't feel 1,200 horsepower fans I mean again I think my p1 would pull it the p1 would followers it's a lot lighter Trey we stuck the p1 is almost you know 1500 pounds like two dollars easy so that's the issue right we're carrying our our power source with that thread oh she's got plenty of power that's for sure yes she does have plenty of foreign more importantly that power is available anywhere right right irrespective what throttle opening you're at yeah most electric cars are limited it's about 140 someway after that thing this will pull all the way to what 207 two four six yes she'll keep pulling all the way yeah yeah it is relentless all the way all right there you go not really so do you have a factory now or just billing one at a time sort of a piecemeal Kennedy um actually we have a fairly you know decent sized facility right and we you know gonna make multiple cars at writing time we expect to deliver several cars in 2020 right cool all basically the same model a four-door that's it's the same model it is you know the GTE you know Grand Touring electric that is our you know our brand and our platform right you know gonna build us 25 and prove that we can build you know a bespoke motorcar that you know can be enjoyed on road and track you know I love new car companies coming along and starting because they're live in a world now everything is negative it keeps things keep being eliminated so to get more car companies coming in especially not mechanical based car companies electronic based car companies so you're starting with clean sheet of paper as far as electricity and all that you know charging systems new kind of batteries you know it's not all based on old school which I think is I think it's just just fascinating you know I always predicted that we will live in an era of boutique manufacturing where you use for example you saw to have an out you find the best brakes Brembo you put those on the car you find the best hydraulic or electric steering unit you put and you sort of assemble a car using only the finest parts available at the time you know for example you're building your own battery you're doing your own motors with you you mentioned what if what was the technical term you used for it you know we actually call it drive you know called you know the drive algorithm right because I have to spin right it's auntie slip and it's you know differential talk but it's your technology it's right yeah so that I mean I find that fascinating well it's the shift J right from mechanical right to software right right the cars are optimized around you know the software control because you know once you get to commodity batteries and motors the road differentiator is in the software right right the driving experience the programmability the feel of the car it's all all in software because there are you know very very few mechanical components in this car as I said there are no differentials so you just got really the only old-school you think you have here is probably the brakes and maybe the steering gear maybe the steering gear yeah yeah so well anyway it's exciting it's a new frontier and it's great to see new car companies come along thank you very much my friend thank you Joe thank you\n"