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Title: New Jag
Post by: Brett on December 30, 2010, 08:55:45 PM
Spotted this round the corner from work... hoping they put it into production! :Thumbs-up:3gears-lh:driving:god

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Title: New Jag
Post by: shaunwil on December 31, 2010, 03:38:20 PM
Doubt it will because the technology doesn\'t exist yet. Wonderful British design !

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/news/default.asp?storyId=22927

Shaun
Title: New Jag
Post by: Dualist on December 31, 2010, 03:55:43 PM
Quote from: shaunwil;734674Doubt it will because the technology doesn\'t exist yet.

What doesn\'t exist yet.?
The electric motors are available as there is an electric car going through testing that does over 200mph using four motors (Tesla started showing these off). And the gas turbines of this type have been made for years for model use.
Title: New Jag
Post by: shaunwil on December 31, 2010, 05:04:47 PM
I\'m sure I read somewhere it was bringing all the technologies together that needed perfecting.

http://www.theengineer.co.uk/mwp/news/innovation-connection-behind-electric-turbine-jaguar/1006051.article

Although I could be completely wrong, thought I had read it in The Engineer or Eureka that it was still a work in progress with blue sky thinking. Everything Exists but it still had hurdles to overcome.

Shaun