VEGA - The 100% Sri Lankan made Super Car

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What a beauty...

 

[forcetrip]

I am not sure whether this will be profitable to make. We had Micro making trains, buses and cars but it didn't really take off. I wish it doesn't happen with this one.

The reason is the core components of this or any other develeopment is still imported. Calling it 100% made in Sri Lanka should be edited.

 

[Gibbs]

I am not sure whether this will be profitable to make. We had Micro making trains, buses and cars but it didn't really take off. I wish it doesn't happen with this one.

I dont think it will be profit based project to begin with.. They are targeting the niche market of super cars.. Dont see how affordable it is going to be for the middle class's

But i guess the target is the brand name.. Once that exclusivity is established then they can produce vehicles for the mass market

 

[raveninthesky]

not only that one young BD guy invented Motorbike which can travel about 100 kilometer before maintainance, its max speed is 85 km/ per hour. its fuel is air , these type of stuff and ppl need government support

That's the difference, this project have GOSL support, Sri Lanka need these kind of innovative yet high risk taking entrepreneurs in order to economy to be boosted and to cross the Middle Income trap and to achieve ultimate goals of SL.

 

[Saradiel]

I am not sure whether this will be profitable to make. We had Micro making trains, buses and cars but it didn't really take off. I wish it doesn't happen with this one.

today in readme they had mentioned Micro's train thing is going ahead

I dont think it will be profit based project to begin with.. They are targeting the niche market of super cars.. Dont see how affordable it is going to be for the middle class's

But i guess the target is the brand name.. Once that exclusivity is established then they can produce vehicles for the mass market

but if they make a really good super car, i think they can create a niche..There is a niche market in SL and of course other SA markets can be a target.
That is if they make it good

That's the difference, this project have GOSL support, Sri Lanka need these kind of innovative yet high risk taking entrepreneurs in order to economy to be boosted and to cross the Middle Income trap and to achieve ultimate goals of SL.

that is true at the same time energy crisis should be taken care of. That is the biggest drawback in doing such a thing in SL

 

[kbd-raaf]

100%? I think not.

But 0-60mph in under 4s is an achievement none the less.

I wouldn't mind a bit more details. Any patents?

 

[NKVD]

We've all heard of electric supercars like Elon Musk's Tesla. But what happens when a bunch of Sri Lankan engineers decide they can do better? Meet project Vega, by Codegen, a home-built supercar that's supposed to do 0-60 in under 4 seconds.

what about engines Can I know in Detail

 

[Azizam]

Sri Lanka’s Electric Powered Supercar

After the devastating tsunami in 2004 and the end of a 26-year long civil war, Sri Lanka’s road to recovery has been long, but hopeful. The BBC reports that “per capita income of the country has doubled since 2005, and the nation’s cellular subscriber base has grown 550 percent between 2005 and 2010.” Additionally, Sri Lanka was the first South Asian country to establish mobile broadband technology.

However, the island nation seems like one of the more unlikely places to imagine as the birthplace of a new supercar, named the Vega. But the team behind the Vega, both the financial investors and the engineers, has the credentials to prove that the supercar is possible.

The car’s design is a sophisticated silhouette worthy of a boutique hypercar, but what lies under the hood is even more impressive and innovative. The Vega boasts a 900 horsepower engine (powered by dual electric motors) with 540 pound-feet of torque, a “state of the art motor controller,” and lithium batter modules that have “a number of innovations in packaging, safety, battery management, system hardware, and firmware and software,” Dr. Beshan Kulapala, the Vega project manager, told the BBC.

The Vega is the dream of Harsha Subasinghe, the CEO of CodeGen, which is a software development company that focuses on travel and tourism. As a result, the endeavor to build Vega is entirely new for Subasinghe. He has larger plans though for the supercar besides breaking the standard 4 seconds to go zero-to 60. Subasinghe wants the Vega to represent Sri Lankans’ ability to develop advanced transportation technology.

“Getting people to believe that a complex engineering project like a supercar can come from Sri Lanka is a huge challenge for us,” Kulapala told the BBC. “This country produces some of the best engineers in the world, but in the past we’ve been afraid to commit to innovative product development for fear of losing, or being ridiculed.”

If successful, the Vega also presents economic opportunities. Kulapala told The Daily Mirror that if Sri Lanka relied completely on electric cars, the country could save US $2.5 billion a year on energy.

The Vega is expected to roll out in April with a price tag of more than $400,000.

Sri Lanka’s Electric Powered Supercar

100%? I think not.

But 0-60mph in under 4s is an achievement none the less.

I wouldn't mind a bit more details. Any patents?

That's what I thought. Probably the parts were imported and assembled?




@NKVD