CES has a bit of everything. After you are done looking at the glow in the dark iPhone cases you can check out the E Rex. Mike Worry, the CEO of Nuvation Engineering gives us an overview of the car. It’s an electric sports car which has been built using a Campagna Motors T Rex as the donor vehicle. Of course the T Rex is gasoline powered so converting it to electric isn’t a feat for the faint of heart. The E Rex was built for the Progressive Automotive X Prize which is a competition that sparks innovation. The 800 pounds of batteries and huge electric motor gets this thing from 0 to 60 in 5 seconds! They couldn’t find an off the shelf battery management system so they built their own. The custom battery management system uses a Maxim 11068 chip which is a 12 channel battery monitoring system, you can see some pictures of the controller below.
