Cosworth & Ariel Motor Company to unveil HIPERCAR 2 at Cenex-LCV2022
Summary
Following the completion of the APC (Advanced Propulsion Centre) government-funded programme HIPERCAR 2, the companies will be debuting the prototype vehicle at the Cenex-LCV2022 event in UTAC Millbrook from 7th - 8th of September. Another demanding requirement stipulated by Ariel was that the battery needed to supply enough power to the motors to enable the HIPERCAR to beat lap records set by ICE cars. The programme used Delta Cosworth’s patented CSMs (Cylindrical Scalable Module) that enables the brand to produce battery packs in any size and shape, with the ability to utilise the two most readily available cell formats of 18650 and 21700. Simon Dowson, Managing Director, Delta Cosworth said: “Developing battery technology for the HIPERCAR programme has provided the team a hard challenge. These communicate with the battery master controller coordinating all information and making key decisions regarding parameters such as power limits, thermal requirements and current balancing.