Vazirani Automotive launches India’s fastest EV hypercar, Ekonk
Vazirani Automotive has announced that it has unveiled its new hypercar, Ekonk. The electric vehicle is making some noise in the automobile sector, as it claims to be the fastest made-in-India car.
The company also claims that it is the lightest electric vehicle in the world. The car weighs just 738kg while producing a total output of 712bhp. The car reached a top speed of 309kmph in a test drive by Chunky Vazirani, the founder, and CEO of Vazirani Automotive. The rear-wheel-drive car is made of carbon fibre that makes it lighter than its other competitors.
The Ekonk enters the limelight after the company unveiled its first hypercar Shul in 2018. The Ekonk is an important testbed for the company's freshly developed battery technology, which is dubbed as DiCo.
The new electric car received its name from the Indian scriptures, where "ekonk" denotes the beginning of creation, as per the company.
Vazirani stated, "For us, Ekonk signifies our real beginning, where, for the first time, design and innovation come together. It's our first vehicle that's alive."
The company said, "In the Indian scriptures, Ekonk signifies the beginning of the divine light. The big bang." The official website also states that the company's "design team worked in coherence with the engineering team to create a low drag concept car."
Various factors make the Ekonk as lightweight as it is. The car is a single-seater. It does not have a car roof and a windshield. This makes it an open-cockpit vehicle. Most electric vehicles add 600 kg to 700 kg of weight through a heavyweight cooling system for the batteries. But the Ekonk uses DiCo technology, which removes the use of a heavy piping structure to cool the batteries and switches it with the principle of air cooling. This considerably reduces the weight of the car.
