In the spring of 2017, Toroidion released figures showing that its electric car would consume significantly less energy than, say, electric car manufacturer Teslan Model S.
Do you remember still Toroidion? The Finnish “super electric car” that was to be challenged by the world’s largest electric car manufacturer Tesla?
The lawsuit was a dream come true, as according to Asiakastieto, the company was declared bankrupt on March 4. Bankruptcy has been reported in the past, among other things Technology & Economics.
“The cash register is empty,” said the chairman of the board of Toroidion, which is based in Raseborg Roald von Schoultz Technology & Economy.
The company filed for bankruptcy with the Länsi-Uusimaa District Court on Thursday, March 3. The application was confirmed the following day.
One of the company’s creditors was Suomen CNC Koneistus Oy from Jyväskylä, which made components for Toroidion.
But what kind of car did the company prepare? It gives you a taste of the bankruptcy auction. A prototype of the company’s electric car is currently being sold In a service called Bankruptcy Auction at a price of a few thousand euros.
The store will close on April 3 at 8 pm The starting price of the auction was 250 euros, on Tuesday morning at 8 am the price had risen to 5,500 euros.
According to the auction, the car is attached to the Öhlins chassis, carbon fiber anti-roll bars, Porche GT3 brakes and Pedalbox, among others.
However, there is one drawback.
“The car lacks power electronics, meaning the car is currently unable to move with motor power,” says the auction data.
Yet in May 2017, Toroidion appeared in public accompanied by harsh speeches. The company, which went public a couple of years earlier, released fresh information about its car at the time.
According to Toroidion, recent independent laboratory tests in the spring of 2017 have shown the company’s electric car engine to work as expected.
According to Toroidion’s own track tests, the car’s energy consumption was 9.99 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometers.
According to figures published by Toroidion, Toroidion would consume significantly less energy than, say, the electric car manufacturer Teslan Model S, which consumed 17.7 kilowatt hours per hundred kilometers in last year’s tests by German Autobild.
“Based on laboratory tests, the first proof-of-concept version of our electric motor and its electrical system are a functional package. Even our technical concept car was able to travel a significantly longer distance with the same amount of energy than the electric cars on the market, even though its energy consumption and electric power transmission had not even been honed to its peak, ”said Toroidion’s CEO. Pasi Pennanen in a company release in May 2017.
All however, they still did not believe in Toroidion technology at that time. For example, a professor of electrical engineering Juha Pyrhönen Lappeenranta University of Technology criticized the company’s patent applications published in autumn 2016.
“If I were to design an engine like this, I would get barking from everyone,” he said in an interview with Technology & Economy.
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