AIM

AIM EV Sport 01

The Japanese Aim Company has been developing engines for twenty-five years. Their constructions even won the 24 Hours of Le Mans (2010, Team Oreca Matmut AIM), but nowadays they prefer to travel with electric motors. To turn heads in the increasingly crowded e-mobility market, they've developed a beautiful prototype sports car around their latest engine, the APM200, which will also be showcased in Europe at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July.

The AIM EV Sport 01 is rear-wheel drive but powered by two electric motors, providing efficient torque vectoring control. The system power is 360 kW, that is, 490 horsepower, and the maximum torque is 740 Nm. That sounds good at first, but it's made all the more exciting by the fact that, despite the four battery packs with a total capacity of 81kWh, the car only weighs 1,425kg ready to go. That's a lot among sports cars, but it's particularly good value in the electric car realm.

This is, of course, due to the ultralight construction method: the construction using the front-rear wishbone frame is based on an aluminum tubular frame, the cover panels are made of carbon fiber laminate and the passenger cell is monocoque. It is also composite carbon.

The two-seater car with side doors is 3.9 meters long, 1.9 meters wide and at least 1.2 meters high. The wheelbase is 2.4 meters. The wheels are 20 inches with 235/35 tires at the front and 275/30 at the rear.

AIM already introduced the EV Sport 01 in Japan in April. Although it was originally conceived as a one-piece, there has been so much interest that they are investigating how (and for how much) they could start small series production of the model.

Reporter: Svékus Gergő