Aston Martin teases his first electric sports car, the Rapide E

Aston Martin has just released some tantalizing details about its upcoming ultra-exclusive electric-powered sports car, a first for the famous British brand. It will be a very fast, very expensive, very nice car, so tie up.

The official name has gone from "RapidE" to "Fast E", more difficult to pronounce – probably to differentiate it from the Aston Martin Rapide S luxury sedan, in production since 2010. The automaker will only manufacture 155 vehicles. or about a third of its original plan before the departure of struggling Chinese electronics maker LeEco as an investor on the project last year.

The company has proposed a series of technical details to whistle those wishing to get their hands on what will surely be a very fast and ridiculously expensive electric sports car. The Rapide E will be powered by an 800-volt battery system with a capacity of 65 kWh, utilizing more than 5,600 18650 lithium-ion cylindrical cells. It will have a range of "over 200 miles" with a charging rate 185 miles per hour using a typical 400V 50kW charger. And if you use a fast charger of 100 kW or more, the Rapide E can absorb a range of 310 miles per hour.

The battery, which will be installed in place of the original 6-liter V12 engine, gearbox and fuel tank, will power two rear-mounted engines, producing a combined power of just over 610 and 950 Nm of couple.

The E Fast has a projected maximum speed of 155 mph, with a time of less than 4 seconds from 0 to 60 mph and a 50 to 70 mph time of only 1.5 seconds. But Aston Martin warns that these numbers are not limited to a narrow window only when the batteries are fully charged. Instead, the target is the maximum performance on demand in most of the battery state of charge window, as can be expected from an internal combustion car conventional.

The luxury automaker is working with Williams Advanced Engineering, a company that designed and assembled batteries for Formula E cars as a development partner. The production will take place at the St. Athan production plant, which will soon be built in South Wales, which has been dubbed the future "electrification house" for the Aston Martin brands and Lagonda. First deliveries are expected in the fourth quarter of 2019.