Meet GreenGT the first design study of a Le Mans prototype that could be compete in the 2011 race at Le Mans 24 hours.
-Le Mont-sur-Lausanne-based team GreenGT the young French designer Thomas Clavet Valencienne ISD School of Design to create this prototype of Le Mans.
The prototype consists of the specifications of the FIA chassis with a carbon body fiberglass. Comes with 2 water-cooled electric motors with 100 kW each (2 x 100 kW), with a differential gearbox patented GreenGT. Supply of energy comes from photovoltaic solar panels flexcell and two lithium-ion batteries, each with 30kWh. All this weighs on a vessel in the form of 860 kg.
The paint is almost dry in his career all the electric cars, and in the green GT banda is thinking on what should come next. The ambitious team based in Switzerland had a design studio Valencienne ISD graduate, Thomas Clavet, who has come across a striking piece of automotive art. The chief engineer of Green GT, Christophe Schwartz, seems thrilled with the effort and provides the basis for design as a corridor of Le Mans, as well as a supercar for the street. He says: “The GreenGT design study could become our 2011 Le Mans Prototype electric racer or it could even become an electric road going supercar. There is a possibility to do both! The advantage of electric cars is that the only difference between a GreenGT electric racecar and road car is the electronic programming. It would be amazing to create two prototype race cars to compete in the 2011 24 hours of Le Mans and 22 road going supercars.”
While we believe it is a pretty slick looking design, we can not but wonder whether some of the openings of the body are really necessary for an electric car. Perhaps a little time to wind tunnel would be some benefit before frittering away too many francs. However, it would be cool to see on a runway somewhere, or better yet, in the ABG garage.
