The new manufacturing methods make low-volume production runs more viable. Jaguar announced this week it would put into production its C-X75 hybrid, a 200mph supercar. It will build just 250 examples in a partnership with Williams F1, also a Motorsport Valley company. The C-X75 will have a carbon-fibre chassis and cost more than £700,000. The original concept used two micro-turbines to generate power for its batteries. The production car, however, will use a small internal-combustion engine instead while Jaguar and Bladon Jets, a British firm developing the idea, continue to work on the technology. Tata, Jaguars parent company, has taken a stake in Bladon Jets.
If a few hundred E-4s were built they might cost about £50,000 or more, says Mr Dowson, although larger production volumes would bring the cost down. The company designed the car to be built at a rate of 10,000 or more a year. But the firm does not have the resources to put the E-4 into production and is looking for other groups or investors interested in helping it take the idea forward. A few years back, the car industry used to reckon it cost $1 billion or more to put a new car into productionand at least 500,000 would need to roll off the production line every year to produce a return on that investment. Mr Dowson thinks they could start to put the E-4 into production for about £4.5m. That is the price of a handful of petrol-powered supercars.
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