NextEV high-voltage hypercar

Imagine flying into turn one at Phillip Island in one of the most aerodynamically advanced hypercars available, which also happens to be whisper quiet?

It could soon become a reality as the heat turns up on global EV development, with a rush of stupendously-powerful hypercars hitting global markets in the next few years.

Some will be successful, some won't, but most of them will come from cashed-up start-up companies.

No sooner do we get a look at projects such as Croatian-based Rimac’s quad-motor Concept_One than yet another startup creation pops up, this time from Chinese-based NextEV, a company created as part of a vision held by the late Dr. Martin Leach, a former racecar driver and Ford Europe executive who died in November this year.

His ambitions were revealed in an interview earlier in 2016 with International Business Times when he said “If normal car companies were the internet at 1.0, then Tesla is probably 2.0 and does some really good things like over-the-air software updates.

"But what we’re trying to be is 3.0,” Dr Leach said.

The teaser images, show front, side and rear details, are tagged 11.21 London, the launch date of the new high-performance EV. Indeed, on November 21 in the UK, the company promises to "Blue Sky Coming" and it could be the next must-have machine for track day fanatics.

The car has been seen testing on a racetrack in the UK, as well as the Nurburgring, so clearly it's being setup for white-knuckle driving, not just zero emission boulevard posturing.

Nothing else has been revealed about the super EV other than a statement by Martin Leach early in 2016 that it would wield a mammoth megawatt of power.

That's 1000kW or 1341hp, enough gristle to kill several sets of tyres in just one weekend of flogging.

Not unlike Faraday Future's strategy to kick off proceedings by producing a ball-tearing hyper car then deliver regular passenger cars, the NextEV hypercar is expected to spearhead a range of EVs from the company.

When the more prosaic volume-sellers that are reportedly next in line for production arrive, the company is expected to grow its footprint.
Faraday Future has been in the news recently after reports of the California-based Chinese-backed EV company's new factory construction has been placed in limbo after funds ran dry.

NextEV is expected to announced its production plans on November 21 at the launch of its hypercar.

NextEV is also campaigning a Formula E race team headed by inaugural Formula E Drivers’ Championship winner Nelson Piquet Jr. driving a car with an all-new NextEV 700R electric powertrain.