For all the car lovers out there: so far, you’ve been able to drive, eat and sleep in your car, but if you want more diversity, well… how does swimming in your car sound? And no, we're not talking about throwing your car off a bridge! We're talking about the underwater car, called the “sQuba”, Rinspeed will officially present at the Geneva Motor Show in March.

What is the first thing to go through one’s mind when seeing an underwater car? James Bond of course and that is exactly what inspired the Swiss auto-maker in creating the “sQuba”, the world’s first submersible car. Rinspeed Inc. CEO Frank Rinderknecht said he has been waiting for a care like this ever since he saw the Roger Moore movie 30 years ago.

It sounds out of this world to be able to switch from driving a regular car to actually swimming, but that is exactly what the Swiss maker intended: “We always want to do cars that are outrageous, which nobody has done before… For three decades I have tried to imagine how it might be possible to build a car that can fly under water. Now we have made this dream come true,” Rinderknecht said.

There is one ‘small’ detail that might catch your attention though: the car is convertible! Sounds strange, but the automaker had a perfectly logical explanation for that: in case of emergency, the occupants of the car would be able to get out as fast as possible. Talk about the ideal car…

The “sQuba” can reach up to 77 mph, but it has a very different behavior underwater, as you might imagine. The top speed on the surface of the water is 3 mph, and falls down to 1.8 mph when underwater. The car has zero emissions and the three electric motors are powered by rechargeable Lithium-Ion batteries.









Source : efluxmedia