The Koenigsegg Quant Concept Car -- Sunny Days Are Here Again!

When you’re down in the dumps and storm clouds seem to follow you everywhere, sometimes all you need is a change of scenery to make things right again. Aside from being an extraordinary looking piece of eye candy, I’m convinced that the Koenigsegg Quant Concept rear wheel drive car – unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show -- is an instant mood booster thanks to its natural, sunshiny, hot and bothered disposition. Swedish firm NLV Solar AG -- a photovoltaics and electrical power pioneer -- commissioned Koenigsegg to incorporate the company’s proprietary solar technology into one slick and highly futuristic ride and this is what they came up with. Oh sweet mother, let the sun shine.

Solar sports car, you say? That’s right…check your drool at the door. This baby may be way out of your league, but no need to dork out – pull yourself together while I fill you in on her stats. First, I’m going to focus on her good looks – call me superficial, but hey….I have no reasonable defense. With a body that rivals pretty much all of the humanoid supermodels out there, it measures 1,879mm in length, weighs in at 3916 pounds, boasts a carbon-fiber monotube backbone chassis and can comfortably seat four very lucky adults. The gullwing doors are cool, but what’s literally cooler is the bodywork’s thin solar cell coating which partially facilitates recharging via its proprietary Flow Accumulator Energy Storage (FAES) system in just 20 minutes. Inside, the LED detailing, multiple climate zone controls and fancy entertainment displays aren’t too shabby, either.

The Koenigsegg Quant Concept car lives up to its impossible good looks and actually raises the bar with what’s going on inside the hood. Did I forget to mention that it can achieve a range of approximately 311 miles thanks to its eco-friendly FAES charging system? Is a 512 horsepower solar sports car as impressive to you as it is to me? Do you think that its brake energy recovery system is anything to cockledoodledoo about? What if its twin AC induction electric motors – which generate steady and controlled rear wheel power -- were able to hit 275 km/hour, go 0 – 100km/hour in a what-the-huh 5.2 seconds flat and generate an impressive 527lb-ft of torque? As it turns out, those facts and figures are the real deal. The maker is putting the final touches on their prototype before they officially begin production on a limited number of real-world Koenigsegg Quants in the near future. Yeah baby, yeah -- let there be light!