World’s first ‘self-healing' sports car unveiled

Lamborghini teamed up with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston to design and create the car. Photo: Lamborghini

World’s first self-healing sports car, Terzo Millennio, has been unveiled by Lamborghini.

The car can use its sensors to detect any damage and self-repair itself by filling the crack with nanotubes. The car is powered by supercapacitors rather than conventional batteries.

Lamborghini teamed up with researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston to design and create the car.

Speaking about the project, CEO of Lamborghini Stefano Domenicali said: "Collaborating with MIT for our research and development department is an exceptional opportunity to do what Lamborghini has always been very good at – rewriting the rules on super sports cars,” according to Telegraph. 

"Now we are presenting an exciting and progressive concept car.

"We are inspired by embracing what is impossible today to craft the realities of tomorrow; Lamborghini must always create the dreams of the next generation."

Professor Mircea Dinca, from the MIT, added: "The new Lamborghini collaboration allows us to be ambitious and think outside the box in designing new materials that answer energy storage challenges for the demands of an electric sport vehicle. We look forward to teaming up with their engineers and work on this exciting project."

The project started a year ago, Mr Domenicali added: “Exactly one year ago we have signed an agreement with the MIT-Italy Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which marked the start of a collaboration between two outstanding entities for the creation of a project that intends to write an important page in the future of super sports cars for the third millennium.