Not to be confused with
Razer Inc.
RAESR (unabbreviated as Rice Advanced Engineering Systems and Research) is an American automobile manufacturer founded in 2014 in
Los Angeles, California
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by Eric Rice.
The company is based in Los Angeles, California and specializes in the production of electric sports cars.
Their prototype model, the "Tachyon Speed", was first introduced to the public in late 2017 through an electric vehicle infrastructure series made by
E.ON, one of Europe's largest energy conglomerates.
Company
The company was founded in 2014 in Los Angeles, California by Eric Rice. Rice came up with the inspiration for the car in 2012, by drawing an early version of the car which looked like a jet fighter fuselage. This encouraged him to build the car. He started with the chassis production and brought on other engineers and designers to help. For their first model they came up with name
Tachyon
A tachyon () or tachyonic particle is a hypothetical particle that always travels faster than light. Physicists believe that faster-than-light particles cannot exist because they are not consistent with the known laws of physics. If such partic ...
, which is a hypothetical
particle
In the physical sciences, a particle (or corpuscule in older texts) is a small localized object which can be described by several physical or chemical properties, such as volume, density, or mass.
They vary greatly in size or quantity, fro ...
that always travels
faster than light. The word tachyon comes from the
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
word "tachus," which means "fast."
In 2017, RAESR completed production of their first prototype, the Tachyon Speed,
and started working on their first production model.
Their cars are electric, using rechargeable batteries.
Tachyon Speed prototype
The RAESR Tachyon Speed is a prototype electric sports car produced in-house by RAESR in Los Angeles, California.
RAESR claims their design was inspired by a
jet fighter
Fighter aircraft are fixed-wing military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to establish air superiority of the battlespace. Domination of the airspace above a battlefield ...
and
Le Mans Prototype
A Le Mans Prototype (LMP) is the type of sports prototype race car used in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, FIA World Endurance Championship, IMSA SportsCar Championship, European Le Mans Series and Asian Le Mans Series. Le Mans Prototypes were cr ...
.
The RAESR Tachyon Speed's electric motors produce over and a cumulative torque value of and can reach a top speed of . The car's battery pack is capable of generating power bursts of 1.4 megawatts and has a range of . The production model pricing will start at .
See also
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Rimac Automobili
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Tesla
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Pininfarina
Pininfarina S.p.A. (short for Carrozzeria Pininfarina) is an Italian car design firm and coachbuilder, with headquarters in Cambiano, Turin, Italy. The company was founded by Battista "Pinin" Farina in 1930.
On 14 December 2015, the Indian ...
References
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External links
* http://www.raesr.com – RAESR website
Car manufacturers of the United States
Battery electric vehicle manufacturers
Electric vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Luxury motor vehicle manufacturers
Motor vehicle manufacturers based in California
Sports car manufacturers
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