Lambo: The Electric Super Cars of the Future!

In cryptocurrency circles, in a daily frenzy on telegram friends often joke about this or that crypto getting you a LAMBO but you'll have to HODL (hold on for your dear life) if you want to get there!

Well, if they are right, put me down for an electric one!

Good things happen when researchers from a few of MIT's prestigious labs pair with engineers of Lamborghini’s “hypercar” concept. Their hard work will result in the Terzo Millenio, an electric sports car for the third millennium.

Members of the MIT community who passed through the Stata Center courtyard last week likely found it hard not to notice the Lamborghini parked there as if it were visiting from the future. The car’s name — Terzo Millenio — says it all.

Who wouldn't notice a Lamborghini when they walked into work? Its a downright modern masterpiece of engineering and asthetic beauty right?

Terzo Millenio is an automobile prototype for the third millennium, and its unique ability to deliver high peak power and regenerate kinetic energy, all while ensuring the ability to release and harvest electric power, can be attributed to the work of MIT associate professor of chemistry Mircea Dinca.

The key to this concept car seems to be it's ability to self-heal through the regeneration of kinetic energy. This is something that electric cars have been doing since they were first put on the market. Even my mother's Toyota Prius has this ability to a limited extent.

"The new Lamborghini collaboration allows us to be ambitious and think outside the box in designing new materials that answer energy storage challenges for the demands of an electric sport vehicle," says Dinca. "We look forward to teaming up with their engineers and work on this exciting project.”

Honestly, I couldn't think of a better research partnership and I can only hope that advancements made in collaboration will be offered in some capacity to the greater public making electric cars more affordable and durable for lower and middle income consumers as well.

Lamborghini is relying on MIT to make its cars of the future operate on electricity, while maintaining the aesthetic standards and high-powered mechanical elements that make operating these luxurious sports cars so thrilling for those who drive them. In October 2016, Automobili Lamborghini began a three-year partnership with MIT that will grant Lamborghini exclusive rights to emerging research related to battery storage and materials science.

Based on this paragraph my hopes seem doubtful in regard to making their research open to the public. However, it does say here that Lamborghini will only retain exclusive rights to related battery storage developments. There may be some other technologies developed that MIT will be able to share and use for the greater good but then again, I have been told at times I can be quite naive.

“We are thrilled to combine our expertise in advanced materials and manufacturing with the vision and support of Automobili Lamborghini, and to realize new concepts that will shape the future of transportation,” says Hart.

Lets see if what is developed here does go beyond Lamborghini and plays a direct role in shaping the future of transportation as so elegantly put above!

What do you guys think of this concept car collaboration? Do you think all supercars of the next decade will be electric or is there still room for gas guzzlers in the uptopia of the future?

Thanks for reading!

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MIT researchers collaborate with Lamborghini to develop an electric car of the future - MIT