Gas-powered Jaguar C-X75

Coventry factory tasked with building turbines for Jaguar C-X75 is opened

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By Damion Smy

02nd February 2012

Jaguar’s parent company, Tata, has formally opened the factory that will build the gas turbines for the Jaguar C-X75 supercar. The Bladon Jets Engineering Centre in Coventry will employ 15 people and house the equipment for the production of micro gas turbines, which the company has a patent for.

The 95bhp turbines weigh 35kg each, have fewer moving parts than an internal combustion engine and don’t need oil lubrication or water cooling, which offers packaging and weight advantages. In the C-X75, they will combine with four independent electric motors at each wheel to send the Jaguar from 0-62mph in 3.4sec, give it a range of 560 miles and emit a mere 28g/km of CO2.

Only a handful of C-X75s will be fitted with the turbines, despite Tata owning a stake in Bladon. The majority of cars, which aren’t expected to arrive until 2015, instead will run a four-cylinder turbo engine developed by Formula One team Williams.

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1 Comment

Serious about clean air and climate change

These gas turbines are incredible, why are they being held back from common use? The answer of course is corperate greed. Governments should bring in legislation that would make it impossible for companies like TaTa to hold back such badly needed advances in tech that can help future generations deal with the poisons we are putting into the atmosphere. The Jag C-X75 is a beautifull car but not for the masses. With China rapidly destroying its own air system this tech is desperatly needed now.

By gramps427 on 7 February, 2012, 10:50am

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