We’ve never quite understood how a car brand can exist for decades without producing a single car, but apparently that’s the case. Perhaps they sell patents, have enough savings, or there are investors who are strong believers in the concept. Take the special car brand Nanoflowcell, which claims to be 25 years old. Have you ever seen one drive?
Nanoflowcell has been working for some time on a revolutionary technique in which you don’t charge an electric car, but fill it up. The company started in Liechtenstein but now has offices in London, Switzerland and recently a new headquarters in America. They claim that their car can travel no less than 2,000 kilometers electrically per refueling.
In 2015 they showed the first machine with this technique. This was a four-seater with large gull-wing doors. Today the smallest Quantino has to steal the show. This one has four electric motors, can sprint from 0 to 100 km/h in 3 seconds and reaches 250 km/h. Refueling takes about the same time as petrol or diesel and the car only emits water vapour, but it’s not a hydrogen car.
How does an electric car that you have to fill up work?
Honesty forces us to admit that perhaps we should have paid more attention to the chemistry, but we can broadly explain it. During refuelling, two tanks are filled: one with positively charged electrolyte fluid and one with negatively charged electrolyte fluid. Both fluids are pumped through a membrane and electricity is apparently generated.
The harmful substances remain in a filter and what remains are harmless water vapors which are dispersed into the outside air. According to Nanoflowcell, only readily available raw materials are used in production, so no precious metals or other expensive or scarce materials. Everything about this car is said to be sustainable.
When will Quantino Nanoflowcell start selling?
We don’t know exactly. Plans now are to start producing the bi-ion fuel in the US, just like the car itself. For now, it’s just a case of “seeing is believing.” If they succeed, then it is certainly a wonderful achievement. Hopefully, in a few years we will be able to laugh at the fact that we once dared to doubt the effectiveness of this technique. Maybe…
