The Quattro all-wheel-drive system is latest technology that is currently used in a lot of different new Audi Dubai cars ranging from the small and affordable A3 mini-luxury sedan to the R8 supercar on the Dubai car export market. This new advancement in technology has furthermore been used in the Audi’s experimental moon Rover, a vehicle designed to operate on the moon by capturing pictures, recording high definition videos and sending them to people on earth straight from the moon.
The current competition to win the Lunar XPrize of a cash prize of over AED 100 million which is to be given to a privately funded team that successfully places a robot on the moon’s surface that explores at least 500 meters and transmits high-definition video and images back to Earth. This greatly influenced the German part time engineers to use their experimental Moon Rover to join the competition. It’s now helping Part Time Scientists by lending its expertise in lightweight construction, electric vehicle mobility and piloted driving to simplify their work.
Lunar Quattro is mostly an aluminum construction, with a solar-charged lithium-ion battery and hub motors at all four wheels that are essential to keep it running. It has two front-facing stereoscopic cameras aid in navigation, while a third high-resolution camera analyzes scientific specimens surrounding the vehicle. Top speed is a rousing 2.2 mph (one meter per second) which makes it the lowest-performing Quattro ever compare to other vehicles in the car sale business. If all goes well as planned, the part time scientists are set to send the experimental Moon Rover by 2017 by the use of the rocket.
