The Lamborghini Terzo Millennio Is A 'Self-Healing' Electric Hypercar Of The Future

Lamborghini has revealed an all-electric concept at MIT's EmTech conference, giving a preview of the firm's future
The Lamborghini Terzo Millennio Is A 'Self-Healing' Electric Hypercar Of The Future

An internal conference for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) doesn’t seem like the natural place for a concept car to be revealed, but the Lamborghini Terzo Millennio is no ordinary concept. The Lamborghini ‘Third Millennium’ is an all-electric hypercar, and it’s been developed in collaboration with two of MIT’s labs - the Dinca Research Lab and Mechanosynthesis Group - hence the unusual reveal location at ‘EmTech’.

The Lamborghini Terzo Millennio Is A 'Self-Healing' Electric Hypercar Of The Future

It’s a striking thing, isn’t it? Not to mention something of a departure from the equally wild Lamborghini concepts we’ve seen in recent years, with its big, dome-like cabin and ‘floating’ rear wheels. We like it a lot.

We can’t do much more that gawp at it, however, as Lamborghini has been fairly light on technical details. What we do know is it’s powered by integrated motors living in each wheel, with every one capable of delivering variable amounts of torque. It gives enormous packaging benefits, allowing people from the design and aero departments much more freedom. No power or performance figures have been suggested thus far.

The Lamborghini Terzo Millennio Is A 'Self-Healing' Electric Hypercar Of The Future

Rather than using batteries, Lamborghini is looking into using ‘supercapacitors’ instead. Lamborghini and Professor John Hart of the Mechanosynthesis Group is investigating ways of using elements of the body as “an accumulator for energy storage.”

The Lamborghini Terzo Millennio Is A 'Self-Healing' Electric Hypercar Of The Future

In fact, the bodywork is probably the most interesting part of this project. The aim is to have the car’s entire carbonfibre structure monitored, detecting any cracks that might arise from accidents. A “self-healing” system would then repair damage using “micro-channels filled with healing chemistries.” So, it’s essentially the T-1000 in car form.

The Lamborghini Terzo Millennio Is A 'Self-Healing' Electric Hypercar Of The Future

It’s very early days, but make no mistake, this is how Lamborghini wants to do things amid the rise of electric cars. The Terzo Millennio “embodies the first steps for Lamborghini to go in the direction of creating a ‘Lamborghini Electric’,” the firm boldly states.

Naturally, we’d love for Sant’Agata Bolognese to stick with V12s forever, but if the Terzo Millennio is anything to go by, the outlandish supercar company has an exciting future even without shouty engines.

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Comments

Anonymous

Why the v12 why not me

11/08/2017 - 12:43 |
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Jefferson Tan(日産)

saved the picture

11/09/2017 - 09:30 |
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Matthew Henderson

too bad its lower than the ground itself.

11/10/2017 - 09:20 |
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Danny S

The self-healing part seems unlikely, but the concept of using super-capacitors to provide power is pretty interesting. However, most capacitors store up energy to release in one go, so I’m not sure how they’d make that work.

11/10/2017 - 12:57 |
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Olds Alero

Christ, this puts Hot Wheels cars to shame in the design department.

11/11/2017 - 17:04 |
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Carguyken 918

It is a really cool car as a car. I think it woud’ve been better if it was a Gran Turismo (PS) car, or used as a car for a Decepticon. I think it’s too much for just Lamborghini’s one off

11/15/2017 - 22:19 |
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