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以下轉錄自Top Gear 網站
http://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/thunder-power-chinas-450bhp-all-electric-saloon
This extraordinary machine is called the Thunder Power. It is a thing. A real
car, no less, unveiled in a corner of the Frankfurt Motor Show sporting a
full electric drivetrain and 450 horsepowers.
It’s the brainchild of CEO Wellen Sham, a man who took over a tooling
company four years ago and turned it into the purveyor of excellently-named
electric cars.
The name, it’s just… magnificent, isn’t it? “Why the name? Because it’s
electric,” explains CEO Wellem Sham to TG.com.
Once you’ve gotten over the whole Thunder Power thing – surely a 1980s
cartoon castaway? – we can tell you that the chassis was designed by Sham
himself.
“We are developing a new technology that is able to blend carbon fibre,
aluminium and steel,” Sham tells us. That combination is what the whole
thing – chassis and body – is made of.
Sham patented the technology, telling us it’s offers a flexible, modular
base, able to scale up to something like an SUV, or scale down to a smaller
supercar.
We’ll come back to the supercar thing in a second – he’s going to build
one, apparently – because not only did Sham design the Thunder Power’s
chassis, complete with a multi-link suspension setup, but also the battery
pack and motor too.
Horsepower? For the saloon, around 450bhp and 413lb ft. Sham himself admits
this figure is not exactly, um, lightning. “It’s not really that much,” he
tells us. Still, it’s good for a 0-62mph time of less than five seconds, and
a top speed of 155mph.
The Thunder Power is rear-wheel drive, with a range of around 400 miles. Oh,
and lots of leather and wood, a huge screen that covers the entire dash and
an interior designed by Zagato, Sham assures us.
“We have finished the concept phase,” he says, “and we’re now in the
homologation process.”
It’ll set you back around €65,000 (￡48,000) when it goes on sale in 2017,
but also of interest is another car sat alongside the Thunder Power saloon –
a 1,000bhp Thunder Power sports saloon.
“We’re only planning on making 80 cars of those, as a limited edition,”
Sham told TG. “The race car is four-wheel-drive, same drivetrain as the
450bhp version, but beefier. It’s got the same chassis too, but with racing
suspension and a different motor.”
That race car and all its 1,000 horsepowers was built “as a showcase of what
we can do. We will do a supercar,” Sham says. Expect that at some point in
the next few years.
So, Thunder Power. It’ll be built in China, and it’s coming. Try and get
the Thundercats theme tune out of your head, we dare you
我沒有要談論政治議題，
也不想討論Thunder Power的好壞，
只是想說一個好好的台灣之光就被黑掉了，
而且Top Gear 算是國外大的網站，
少了一個發揚國外的機會，
不知道大家願不願意幫忙去Top Gear留言，
希望他們會更正，
至少Chinese Taipei也好，
(個人私心還是Taiwan，呵呵。
其實Taiwan在網站裡面也出現不只一次了)
這是我第二篇文，這邊的第一篇，希望沒有違反板規~