World's 1st Self-Healing Car

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 MIT & Lamborghini's New Breakthrough Technologies



                                                    Source:  Lamborghini & MIT

Lamborghini-MIT Terzo Millennio Concept Car

Two global innovation leaders - MIT and Lamborghini - have joined forces to develop breakthrough automotive technologies.  What they are developing is really BIG.  They are developing the capability of automotive regeneration, meaning the car self-heals or self-repairs itself.  In fact, the two have created a concept car that includes self-healing:  The Terzo Millennio or Third Millennium concept car.

Tech Details

MIT and Lamborghini started work on the Terzo Project in 2016. By 2030, they are expected to reach maturity and unveil the world's first fully developed self-healing car, the Terzo Millennio. The team is using nanotechnology, specifically nanotube tech, to create strong, lightweight and self-healing car bodies.  Simultaneously, they are embedding supercapacitors into the car body to greatly enhance energy efficiency and energy storage.  Theirs is a phenomenal $123 million automotive engineering development project.

How Does the Self-healing Work?

The researchers place carbon nanotubes between layers of carbon fiber panels in building the car's body.  The nanotubes store electricity and warm and seal off any developing cracks in the car body.  By sending resin to the damaged, cracking area, more damage is prevented, and the material self-heals.

Supercapacitors

The team is also using supercapacitors to enable the car to charge much more quickly and discharge energy with much greater energy efficiency.  Carbon nanotubes placed throughout the body of the car store static electro-energy.  This converts the entire body of the car into a giant reservoir of energy storage.  The researchers say that the technology and its distribution across the body of the car improves the "lightweightness" of the car. 

Potentially Massive Automotive Innovation

The new technologies being developed in the Terzo Project by MIT and Lamborghini - self-healing and much more energy efficient cars  - are breakthrough new innovations.  They could be key definers of the upcoming future of driving.

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