Rinspeed sQuba - the world's first under water car
Rinspeed, a Swiss automaker has developed the world's first car hat can be driven both on land and under water, The sQuba! Thirty years after the thriller movie "The Spy Who Loved Me" sQuba is the first car that can actually ‘fly’ under water.
A zero emission vehicle, sQuba is driven by three electric motors - one for land travel and two for water apart from an autonomous cruise control system. The vehicle's interior is water and salt resistant hence it can be driven in the ocean.
While on land, it uses the electric rear-wheel drive powertrain by using rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and in water, it floats on the surface until the operator floods the interior to submerge it. It can go to a depth of 10 metres (33 ft), underwater, powered by twin electric-powered propellers supplemented by two Seabob water jets. The car's top speed on Land is 120 km/h (75 mph) and it has an underwater speed of 3 km/h. The open cockpit design allows the occupants to escape easily in case of emergency. So here comes sQuba- a dream car which you have so far seen only on the silver screen!
A zero emission vehicle, sQuba is driven by three electric motors - one for land travel and two for water apart from an autonomous cruise control system. The vehicle's interior is water and salt resistant hence it can be driven in the ocean.
While on land, it uses the electric rear-wheel drive powertrain by using rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and in water, it floats on the surface until the operator floods the interior to submerge it. It can go to a depth of 10 metres (33 ft), underwater, powered by twin electric-powered propellers supplemented by two Seabob water jets. The car's top speed on Land is 120 km/h (75 mph) and it has an underwater speed of 3 km/h. The open cockpit design allows the occupants to escape easily in case of emergency. So here comes sQuba- a dream car which you have so far seen only on the silver screen!