Car Guy Magazine Car Guy Magazine Issue 914 | Page 64

ELECTRIC Daytona Coupe, What?

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enovo Motors, Inc. today
introduced the world to the
groundbreaking Renovo
Coupe with a production
prototype on display at the 2014
Pebble Beach Concourse d’Elegance.
Founded in 2010 with the mission
to build the world’s most exciting
vehicles, Renovo has operated in
stealth mode for over four years as
they developed and refined their
patent-pending EV technology. The
Coupe—the first all-electric American supercar—is the culmination of
these efforts.
“Renovo Motors sought to cre-

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ate an aspirational vehicle that demonstrates the performance, control,
and excitement that is possible with
EV technology,” said Renovo’s CEO
Christopher Heiser. “We have poured
our passion and innovation into the
Coupe in an effort to deliver a truly
amazing driving experience, and
we’re honored to present the Production Prototype of our car at the
Concours d’Elegance.”
The Coupe sets a benchmark
0-60 time of just 3.4 seconds, the
fastest of any production rear-wheel
drive electric vehicle. The car’s massive 1,000 foot-pounds of torque is

available immediately from a dead
stop and delivers perfectly linear acceleration that is unlike any car on
the road today.
The mid-mounted twin sequential axial-flux motors deliver
both power and efficiency, with
optimized energy mappings for a
wide range of driving conditions.
When run at full throttle, the motors
produce over 500 horsepower. More
importantly, the drivetrain ramps to
full power in just 37 milliseconds—
about ten times faster than the blink
of an eye—and further redefines
how a performance vehicle can