Virgin is working on an electric version of its

Richard Branson is not inferior to Elon Musk on global ideas and vision. In addition, Branson also can be called universal: his company's work in a variety of areas, including aerospace. However, in one of the directions Branson far behind the mask - namely in electric vehicles. Virgin simply not engaged in electric cars, designed to connect to the mass, but now it seems that things have changed .

Sam Branson recently said that his company is working on his own project electric, which in the future will be to oppose Tesla. Now, according to the head of Virgin, on this project are several groups of engineers and designers. However, the details of Branson did not go.




I must say that the Virgin Racing team has successfully compete with other teams in Formula E - «electric" analogue "Formula 1" with its own version of the electric car racing. And now racing component can extend, adjust release of conventional electric cars. Branson said that Virgin could compete with Tesla in this field, as well as Virgin and SpaceX compete in the aerospace sector.

It should be noted that the current version of the electric car racing Branson can reach speeds of 260 kilometers per hour and accelerates to 100 km in just 3 seconds. This electric car may take and the basis for the design of "consumer" version.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/247690/