Lamborghini licenses MIT's new high-capacity, fast-charging organic battery tech

[toyg]

Lamborghini are as much about bombast and marketing as they are about performance. MIT is a big name, sounds impressive etc etc... Whether the partnership will actually produce usable production-grade technology, is another matter.

This said, the Italian Motor Valley seems to have finally steered towards electric. Ducati and Ferrari have had real electric programs for a few years now (although Ducati will likely work on synthetic fuels too), and there are even full-electric companies like Energica.

[esafak]

This follows their collaboration on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Terzo_Millennio

Check out dem wheels!! The supercapacitor is definitely going to get this car past 88 mph!

[ycombinatrix]

you weren't kidding. dem wheels look incredible.

[m463]

looks like the inside of a toaster

[CHB0403085482]

A mostly silent but still fast Lambo? I'm fine with that. I hope Lambo doesn't have Ferrari's buying scheme... https://www.themanual.com/auto/what-to-know-about-buying-a-n...

[casion]

They do not. Source: Have owned a few (of both brands)

Lambo is almost fundamentally (and certainly originally) the anti-ferrari.

[NewJazz]

Past 35 mph, most road noise is from the tires against the road.

[rkagerer]

Does anyone else hate the blocky/chunky look of modern sports cars?

Like designers used MineCraft as their CAD tool.

[esafak]

Yes. It makes them look like they ate too much.

[teruakohatu]

> Like designers used MineCraft as their CAD tool.

More like they are designed by Computational Fluid Dynamics simulators.

[bitwize]

My standard joke about the Cybertruck is "somebody please fix that bug in the level-of-detail algorithm".