Ariel readies battery-powered supercar
FIVE YEARS AGO, WE RAN A HALF-PAGE news story describing Ariel’s plans to build ‘Hipercar’, an electric supercar. Maybe you missed it, or saw it and thought it a fanciful idea. After all, where does a tiny, Somerset-based brand producing around 100 cars per year find £14million to develop an EV supercar from scratch? Or, just as pointedly, where does it find the expertise? The answer to both of those questions is via government-funded bodies designed to propagate innovative technology that will help the UK’s ambition to get to Net Zero.
The Ariel Hipercar will be launched officially in just a few weeks. Hipercar stands for HIgh PERformance CArbon Reduction. We can’t show you any new images or get deep into the technical detail because although Ariel will build it and has led development, the all-British project has other collaborators, so it’s not solely Ariel’s to share. What we do know is that Hipercar is a compact road car, weighs around 1600kg
