The Drako Dragon options vertical doorways and a claimed 2,000 horsepower
For anybody pondering whether or not the world already had sufficient electrical SUVs with supercar efficiency, the Drako Dragon is right here to let you know in any other case.
Based mostly in San Jose, California, Drako Motors started life in 2019 as an electrical automotive startup with plans to construct a 1,200-horsepower tremendous sedan, based mostly on the ill-fated Fisker Karma and referred to as the GTE.
Quick-forward to a few years and one pandemic later, and the plan has modified. Now, Drako intends to construct an SUV referred to as the Dragon. It would, the corporate claims, output 2,000 horsepower from its all-electric, quad-motor drivetrain and catapult to 60mph in simply 1.9 seconds. Torque-vectoring in every wheel ought to make the automotive deal with fairly properly too, though the jury is, fairly rightly, nonetheless out on whether or not a monster SUV like this could ever actually be blessed with wonderful dealing with.
Drako Motors says the electrical SUV can dash to 60mph in simply 1.9 seconds
In a bid to tick all the typical hyper SUV containers, Drako says the Dragon can have a prime velocity of over 200mph, and the quarter-mile dash will likely be taken care of 9.0 seconds. In a world already struggling to regulate to the idea of the thousand-horsepower Lotus Eletre and Tesla Mannequin X Plaid, Drako’s plans are mind-blowing within the excessive.
The automotive hasn’t been totally revealed simply but, however from the shadowy teaser photographs launched at present we will see there are Mannequin X-style gull-wing doorways, and what seems like a sloping, coupe-style roofline.
The five-seat SUV seems to have a sloping, coupe-style roofline
Hammering house its otherworldly intentions for the Dragon, Drako says the automotive “feels much less like a automotive and extra like a spaceship”. There’s additionally a ‘genre-defying carbon fiber construction, world-class European design inside and outside, and world-beating DriveOS Quad Motor Powertrain management,” all of which the corporate says it can ship “for about the identical value” as its rivals.
There’s no definitive phrase but on a value, meant construct quantity or launch date, however Drako asks that potential patrons ought to register their curiosity now.
