A Sports Car That Runs On Salt Water

“The new QUANT e-Sportlimousine is the first prototype built around the groundbreaking nanoFlowcell® powertrain and energy-storage concept. It marks a quantum leap in the development of electric mobility,” reads the official website of this salt water powered electric car.
One of the wildest cars at the Geneva Motor Show, the Nanoflowcell Quant e-Sportlimousine is a research prototype that’s powered by salt water. More accurately, it’s powered by a flow battery that uses a special formula of ionic charge-carrying salt water as its storage medium.
“Following the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, it was decided to pursue a completely new concept, both optically and technically,” Nanoflowcell explains. “Every element of the Quant e-Sportlimousine has been developed from the ground up over the last four years: new powertrain, complete redesign, and most importantly, every aspect of the new prototypes are designed with homologation requirements in mind.”
The Nanoflowcell power storage forms the crux of the excitement surrounding this car. It uses a very specific formulation of flow battery. Although flow battery power for vehicle use is also being researched elsewhere, the Quant becomes what Nanoflowcell qualifies as the first actual vehicle powered by it.

Nanoflowcell explains that its technology boasts five to six times the storage capacity of other flow cell designs or lithium-ion batteries, making it primed for vehicular use. It credits its superior energy density to “an extremely high concentration of ionic charge carriers in the cell system’s electrolyte” and translates it into a 249- to 373-mile (400- to 600-km) driving range estimate.

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