Automotive: Electric supercar Picchio powered by batteries 'made in ENEA'
15/12/2016
HIZEV is a sports electric supercar with a modern design, combining environmental sustainability and high-performance. Developed by a consortium of small and medium enterprises led by Picchio Spa and ENEA, which designed the storage system, the car was presented at H2R-Mobility for Sustainability within Ecomondo Expo in Rimini.
HIZEV is a four-wheel drive car with a motorized front, with a 150 electric drive, a rear end with two 100 kW engines and an electronic differential based on vector control. The storage system, made up of high-power lithium-ion cells with 180 km of autonomy and centrally located in the rear, was developed at the Laboratory of Systems and Technologies for Mobility and Storage of the ENEA Casaccia Research Center (Rome). “We have modelled the batteries behavior in extreme conditions of races from a thermal and electric point of view, and the results obtained were bench validated” Giovanni Pede, Head of the ENEA Laboratory, pointed out”.
“The main added value of ENEA – Pede remarked – lies in combining the storage systems design with practical performance verification conducted at the Casaccia Batteries Testing Laboratory, a facility of excellence in our Country”.
The powertrain system, developed by Picchio for uphill races, provides hypercar performances: in particular, an estimated acceleration from 0 to 100 between 3 and 3.5 seconds, able to reach 300 km/hour. Thanks to these characteristics, the electric car HIZEV could soon be the first high-performance electric car in Italy to take part in sports events such as uphill and track races.
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Fernando Ortenzi, ENEA – Laboratory of Systems and Technologies for Mobility and Storage fernando.ortenzi@enea.it