This Chinese 1287bhp, 205mph 'Trev' Hybrid Is A Turbine-Fed Beast
There is nothing in the world that appeals to our inner 10-year-olds more than adding the words ‘turbo’ and ‘jet’ to things. Welcome your inner child to the Techrules Ren RS.
This thing is crazy fast. Many electrically-driven cars have one motor. Some have two. Really quick ones might have three. The Chinese-engineered Ren RS has either four, or if you’re feeling really brave, six. This six-motor monster has two motors on the front axle and four on the rear, delivering a frankly absurd 1287bhp.
That means it’s good for serious supercar performance despite not having gears. A single speed is all it needs to launch to 62mph in 3.0 seconds on the way to a 205mph top speed. As technical achievements go, that’s impressive. Plus, it says TURBO JET on it, so we love it.
The single-seater uses a clever turbine-based range-extender hybrid drivetrain. This Turbine-Recharging Electric Vehicle setup – TREV, for short (stop laughing at the back) – employs the diesel-fuelled turbine to drive a generator that then replenishes the surprisingly small 28kWh battery.
Claimed range is in the region of 727 miles per 80 litres of diesel, or about 41.3mpg. Obviously it’s not likely to worry a Prius in the efficiency stakes, but a Prius can’t do 205mph…
We don’t have the figures for the four-motor TREV yet, but expect it to be less fast and a little more frugal. A show car will be at the Geneva Motor Show next month.
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Only 6 electric motors & a turbine? pfffff………….nothing beats this monster (42 wheeled BMW with 19 Porsche engines) :P :P
Interesting 🤔
That was drawn up by a 4 year old (at the time) now 9/10 year old boy called Eli if I recall!
Key word here is, “Chinese engineered”
Should be reliable then 😂😂
Volvo is currently Chinese-ownee though…
Idk. China is the leading of technology. Hell ever the last phone i used before it broke is made in china.
This makes me feel overly patriotic…
Don’t believe this until it actually comes out. A couple of years ago, the same company claimed a car with over 1000hp and over 1500mpg efficiency. A human running can’t do 1500mpg on anything vaguely resembling food. They said it would be ready in 2 of years. Those years have passed, and we have yet more vapourware and no production-ready cars.
Seriously?! They thought they could hit 1500mpg!
Rmb the porche with ferrari California lights called the eagle?
TURBINE BOWERRRRRR
Powah!!!!!
Looks pretty good tbh
Turbine-Electric car? Now we’re talking!
Techrules.
Is this supposed to be Tesla’s performance division?
Now THIS is how all electric cars should be.
Its not an EV its a Hybrid.