Dutch Nova you can to your own taste build
Posted on 05-02-2015 at 11:57 by Ricardo – 32 Comments”
Modular platforms we know now. But where is the first true modular car? TU/ecomotive, part of the Technical University of Eindhoven, says that they are going to build.
Modularity is a popular concept in the technique. It received worldwide attention when a Dutchman in 2013, the Phonebloks presented. A phone which you own the hardware you can upgrade, that the need to every two years a new phone is to buy the best of the best to have expired. Not much later, jump the Google bandwagon, and it appears that they will soon actually have a modular telephone sales, where you can quickly find the camera or processor upgrade. The next step is that TV’s and monitors modular.
Nova
But enough techgeleuter. Let’s look at modularity in the conservative world. You could say that cars are already decades are modular, and there is an entire industry built around the subsequent upgrade of quadricycles: tuning. The TU/ecomotive something further with their last night presented Nova, a successor of the Isa. To say that the world’s first modular car that “can be adapted to every possible situation”. Say what?
The idea behind the electric-powered Nova is that the car can grow with the owner. The Nova can at any time be upgraded, so that the feeling of a new car always remains, that the need to have to buy a new car. Just create your trusty old Nova new again with fresh and enhanced features.
The exterior is made of biocomposiet and consists of sixteen panels with 3D-printed clamps to the frame of the so-called hogesterktestaal – can be locked in place. Also notable: the Nova, a three-seater in which the driver alone in the front seat. McLaren F1-style.
Final specs of the Nova are not there yet, because performance is largely dependent on the configuration. From the first calculations to show that the car has a consumption of the electric equivalent of 1 to 800, in the most efficient configuration. The top speed is according to the team around a moderate 90 km/h. Also with the accupakketten and motor, the user can according to need ‘play’. The Nova comes with three accupakketten of ten pounds. “If a package is empty, put a new packet in and you can drive further.”, says TU/ecomotive. With those three packages, the director of approximately one hundred to one hundred and fifty miles.
At the presentation (TwitPic) it was reported that the official unveiling will take place on the AutoRai in april. Then also keep track of the specs of this ambitious project, together with other info. He then comes up at the Shell Eco-marathon on the 21st of may in action. For a better look on the Nova we have a overzichtsfilmpje on Autojunk.