Lamborghini and MIT announced a partnership to develop and create products that could make future “lamby” faster, easier, cheaper (which is unlikely) and stronger. Despite the fact that Lamborghini is a big family of Volkswagen, the company has to constantly innovate to survive and prosper. This week it became known about a three-year partnership with Lamborghini and the Massachusetts Institute of technology: 50 students studying abroad in Italy, will be working with Lamborghini on research and development. Most of the work is expected to be devoted to the development of composite materials that will make the car lighter and stronger.
At MIT there are already projects on the car
Literally last fall (2015) MIT signed a partnership agreement with Toyota for the further development of self-driving cars. This action is part of a billion dollars, which also includes Stanford. Together with Carnegie Mellon universities on the crest of a wave of developments in the field of Autonomous vehicles.
In the case of MIT, the majority of work will take place in Cambridge, and in Italy will take place an annual program for students. MIT compares his Italian program Lamborghini, formed ten years ago communications, Boeing and Washington University, which helped Boeing develop a more rapid method of creating carbon fiber. This is usually a painstaking, multi-step process that is slower than stamping pieces of metal on the press.
What he wants a Lamborghini?
The company said that it wants to explore ways of producing composite parts better. Supercars already include some pieces of carbon fiber like the roof, hood and trunk lid; it allows to save on weight to lower the center of gravity. Panels of carbon fiber is already installed on the Lamborghini Aventador.
Carbon wheels would be a great project, since the greatest performance gain comes from the reduction of the unsprung masses, i.e., tires, wheels and brakes. But the wheels of carbon fiber is difficult to control for hidden damage, so the wheels are carbon fiber at first will likely be the privilege of automobile clubs or sports tracks.
Companies also need to develop hybrid designs, when the electric motors to act as turbochargers, even if the car already has physical turbochargers. The electric motors provide near instantaneous torque at low rpm, while turbines need a few tenths of a second to accelerate.
Lamborghini, like all automakers, is aware that the legislature of Germany voted for their country, and perhaps for all others in the EU (if they will follow the example of Germany) to abandon the internal combustion engines by 2030. Obviously, R&D on the topic of electric vehicles or hydrogen cells will be very much.
Why would Lamborghini need help MIT? Of course, to make cooler cars
Ilya Hel