The British car manufacturer Jaguar is seriously considering releasing an ultra-fast modification of the I-Pace SVR. The corresponding proposition has been recently put up for review by the Board of Directors.
Hanno Kirner, one of the company’s chief executives, admitted in an interview that the idea of building a battery-powered I-Pace that can accelerate 0-100 km/h in 1.8 seconds sounds tempting, if more than a bit crazy.
“Yes, we can make it do 0-60mph in 1.8sec. It’s a good headline, but once you’ve done it once or twice, and lost your eyes in the back of their sockets, you might not want to do it again,” he confided.
He added that, in case the project gets the green light, the performance-packed I-Pace SVR is going to use the same traction battery layout as its regular counterpart: in between axles, and as low as possible. This would allow for more even weight distribution improve steerability.
The series-produced I-Pace SUV comes with two electric engines for 400 hp (300 kW) total power output. It accelerates to 100 km/h (60 mph) in less than five seconds and only tops out at 200 km/h because of the manufacturer-set limit. It also comes with a class-leading low drag coefficient (Cx) of 0.29. The engineers have managed to achieve this spectacular result thanks to specially-designed ventilating dampers located inside the radiator grille.
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