Fully electric Land Rover Defender has passed his first test Bashny.Net

Earlier this year the British car company Land Rover has declared that it wants to electrify its model is Defender. Despite the fact that this SUV may not seem the best candidate for such a role, the first fully electric Defender at the end of last month began to take its first test at the Eden project, the Botanic garden, Cornwall, England.





One of the challenges faced by the electric Defender in Cornwall, has become a tourist 13-ton road train with four trailers, which are filled with sixty visitors of the Botanical garden: Defender was able to carry it all on the road with 6 degree rise.

Despite the fact that the Defender 110, also known as "All Terrain Electric Research Vehicle", designed, like its normal variant, off-road, it can accelerate to 112 km/h.





In addition impressive towing capabilities, the engineers did a good job and above the dynamic braking of the electric SUV. Land Rover say that when the system is Hill Descent Control, the car can regain 80 percent of its kinetic energy. This is confirmed by the tests, they showed that due to the dynamic braking is returned to the battery 30 KWh of energy. To date, full charge of the lithium-ion car batteries is about 10 hours, but the company claims that due to the technology rapid charging it is going to reduce this time to 4 hours.


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