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The boss of Exagon Motors, the company behind the £360,000 Furtive e-GT, reports significant interest in the carbonfibre battery-powered vehicle

Exagon Motors says it has sold the first 12 months of production of its new Furtive e-GT electric supercar. Based on the Swiss and US pricing, the e-GT is likely to cost any UK buyer around £360,000.

Speaking to Autocar in London, where the car made an appearance at the Salute to Style event last weekend, Luc Marchetti, chairman of Exagon Motors and brain behind the Furtive e-GT's development, said that the company wasn’t going to employ a conventional dealer network.

"We don’t need retail showrooms. We will be using 'ambassadors' [to promote the car]. The e-GT is aimed at the sort of person who has everything," he said.

It’s also possible that the e-GT could be promoted within high-end retail environments, trading on a combination of "French luxury and European technology". Marchetti says that annual production will initially run at about 150 units per year.

The e-GT is based around a carbonfibre structure, which is manufactured close to the Magny-Cours race circuit in France and weighs just 124kg. The e-GT’s SAFT lithium-ion battery pack – SAFT is said to be the leading battery supplier in the aerospace industry - is mounted in the floor of the structure and weighs 480kg.

Unusually for an electric car, the e-GT has a three-speed gearbox. Currently, most electrically driven vehicles have a single-ratio transmission, but Marchetti says there is no torque interruption from the twin Siemens electric motors, which send a base 380lb ft to the rear wheels between 0 and 5000rpm. Marchetti said that such is the torque at the rear wheels, Michelin had to engineer a new kind of tyre to deal with it.

The e-GT has a range of 224 miles on the battery pack and buyers also have the option of a range-extending petrol-fired engine/generator. Described as a "small capacity combustion engine", it is designed to run at a constant speed and returns a claimed 41mpg when it is solely powering the car.

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Soren Lorenson 24 July 2014

Peugeot RCZ

So is there a big demand for a £360K electric car that looks rather like a Peugeot RCZ? I suspect that may be both the first and last car that they sell.

Personally I'd have an F-type Coupe, and keep the £300K to spend on fuel and carbon offsetting.

jmd67 23 July 2014

I have to say I've never been

I have to say I've never been able to get my head around the reason why most electric cars only have a single gear. My complete ignorance I know, but I would have thought that the advantages offered by gearing would apply to any type of motor. Nice car, if almost completely pointless...
xxxx 22 July 2014

price

Other than the price it looks great in the pictures and sounds a bit of hoot to drive, wonder if it can beat the 911/Panamera in the same way the Telsa beat the Panamera and Aston Martin in the Autocar shotout.
The Special One 22 July 2014

xxxx wrote:Other than the

xxxx wrote:

Other than the price it looks great in the pictures and sounds a bit of hoot to drive, wonder if it can beat the 911/Panamera in the same way the Telsa beat the Panamera and Aston Martin in the Autocar shotout.

It certainly is competitive with a claimed 0-100 km/h time of 3.5 seconds. This from "just" 402 bhp.