Lightning GT EV (700HP electric Supercar)

The UK’s Lightning Car Company has announced that its 700hp (522kW) all-electric GT will make its global debut at the London Motor Show tomorrow(Read HERE), but the company today released a new set of images for the car. The company first started taking orders for the car late last year and will soon be ready to start deliveries of its first vehicles.

The battery pack will be made by AltairNano using the company’s NanoSafe technology, which use nano titanate materials instead of graphite which makes them far more thermally stable and able to recharge in as little as 10 minutes, rather than hours like conventional batteries. Additionally, the NanoSafe batteries have a life expectancy of over 12 years and can retain as much as 85% of their original charge even after 15,000 cycles, alleviating much of the concern over limited lifetimes and high replacement costs of the battery packs. And the batteries themselves are already in use in another electric vehicle, the Phoenix Motors pickup truck.