{"id":87262,"date":"2019-01-31T10:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T18:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/lamborghini-and-mit-team-up-on-electric-supercar-without-batteries"},"modified":"2019-01-31T10:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T18:42:25","slug":"lamborghini-and-mit-team-up-on-electric-supercar-without-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/lamborghini-and-mit-team-up-on-electric-supercar-without-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Lamborghini and MIT team up on electric supercar without batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lamborghini-and-mit-team-up-on-electric-supercar-without-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Instead, the body of the Lamborghini Terzo Millennio concept car, made from exotic carbon nanotubes, would be used as a supercapacitor. Supercapacitors store and release energy in a manner different from that employed by batteries. They have certain advantages, but also serious disadvantages.<\/p>\n<p>It could be years, if ever, before scientists from MIT and Lamborghini, which is part of the Volkswagen Group ( <a href='http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=VLKAF&source=story_quote_link' class='inlink'>VLKAF<\/a> ), can overcome the downsides. But the effort would be worth it, said Mauricio Reggiani, Lamborghini\u2019s head of research and development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment, we are really optimistic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/11\/06\/technology\/lamborghini-terzo-milennio\/index.html\">https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/11\/06\/technology\/lamborghini-terz...index.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead, the body of the Lamborghini Terzo Millennio concept car, made from exotic carbon nanotubes, would be used as a supercapacitor. Supercapacitors store and release energy in a manner different from that employed by batteries. They have certain advantages, but also serious disadvantages. It could be years, if ever, before scientists from MIT and Lamborghini, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}