Rinspeed made an official announcement about its presence at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show next week. After many photos and informations about a convertible submersible, they will finally unveil the sQuba Concept. The sQuba is based on the Lotus Elise and is inspired from a James Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me.
The submersible is an electric car and it needs three engines to keep moving, one for land-driving and two others to move underwater. For swimming it also needs two Seabob jet-drives that helps maneuvering the sQuba.
Now, we have to explain why is a submersible, convertible. Well, because of the safety of the passengers in case of they won’t be able to get out of the car on time if something goes wrong, and the other motive is that the sQuba would have need a couple of extra tons to compensate the volume of air inside the cockpit.
You all must wonder how the passengers will breath underwater - an on-board breathing system is the answer for that. The concept also features salt-water resistance, super high-friction diamond abrasive materials to keep you stuck to the seat and for the exterior they prepared lightweight AEZ 17-inch wheels in the front and 18-inch in the back.
Follow the gallery and the press release after the jump.
