The well-known British car maker Aston Martin has come up with some classic cars like Vulcan and vantage GT12. Now, the company is planning to move ahead with today's technology and has confirmed its plan to develop an all new electric vehicle version of its famous 4-door saloon car Rapide. The design will be based on the not so long back displayed DBX concept and will hit the market in two years from now. The expected power of this Rapide EV could be near to 1000 hp with the range of nearly 300 km. This trend of long-range electric vehicles is clearly to rival Tesla, which is fast becoming numero uno car maker of the world in this segment.
Detailing the plan, Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer said “We green-lighted a technical study for Rapide EV with no range extender. From the compliance perspective, if we as a sports car company want to continue to make V-12s – I'd hate to be the guy that killed the Aston V-12 – then we can make V-12 itself meet the emissions requirement, but you can't expect your fleet average be good. So if you're going to make your fleet average really good you have to have a low or zero-emission car.”
The current generation Rapide is one of the powerful cars available in the world getting powered by a 6.0 Litre V12 engine, producing 550 hp power. It also has been mated to 8-speed gearbox to transmit power to all of its 4 wheels.
