The Lightning Car First Drive

The Lightning Car is an all-electric British supercar, with 700bhp on tap. A full documentary on its creation and launch will follow soon.

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• Aston
• Martin
• Lamborghini
• Electric
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[ABotoxCowboy]

Probably the same as any other electric car -- very quiet!

[RockaboxMedia]

Yup. I was there on the shoot and it is quiet but with a really interesting turbine-like sound. The short 'arty' bit where you can hear a noise was the only moment we got close enough to capture the sound of the car over the howling gale that was going on at the airfield that day. We will be bringing loads more on the Lightning soon...well soonish. I'll make sure we share the noise of the car then.

[frankodelic]

Why are you disabling the embed? I wanted to show my buds on myspace...

[RockaboxMedia]

Apologies but as a commercial production house we have to rights manage the content we make for our clients. It's nice to be able to show this footage despite this. Many thanks for your interest though.

[staticxmako]

lol in 6 years were all giong to have to put basball cards in our car's tires to make them have a sound

[spruce86]

it'll be 0-60 in under 4 seconds in the sport mode set up. Otherwise 0-60 in 5... i think thats pretty fast myself

[TheSpeakers20]

sadly when i click the video and it came on i thurn up the volume

[fawnication]

looks good..can I have mine with a hydrogen engine, I like noise ;D

[redghost105]

@spruce86 ya its fast...but its a quarter of a mil and you can only drive full throttle for a few miles...after a few miles then you have to charge it up for hours and hours

[z0tx]

0:08 ?

[s2gz]

who uploaded this? GM or BP?

700 hp this clip should show the car ripping up the road.

electric is inherently better than gas since theres no transmission. energy is directly turned into torque... no cylinders to waste power and almost no friction in the engine.

[Blueformdesign]

Am I the only one that sees the 700bhp part? leave aside the bad ass styling, it's f@#ing futuristic, look at the details, the surfacing? It's got brakes that regenerate power back into the car when stopping, it can do 300km (weakest point but in England who cares!), It would be the perfect pub to pub roadster in the English country side. These are the pioneers of the future folks, if I'm driving electric I'd want it to look like that though, not a Sinclair C5. Girls don't like C5's

[Ebook94]

Has the tail lights of a Bugatti

[Nichen]

This car...is it even going into production?

[codfather12345]

I would sat the back half is akin to a tvr and the fron in some ways to a BMW Z8. Not sure about the specificataions and the thinking behind having one motor in each wheel. Surely this means if one wears or you get a loose connectiong you wil get more power to the others ending in it steering into that side and crashing. They still havent quite got the range up to anything useable, 120 miles or so, but I have to say it looks a damn site better than the tesla roadster. Some commentary 'd be nice.