Futuristic EV Designer Sports Car w/ Nikita Bridan of Oilstainlab - AZ TRT S06 EP02 (263) 1-26-2025

Futuristic EV Designer Sports Car w/ Nikita Bridan of Oilstainlab

 

- AZ TRT S06 EP02 (263) 1-26-2025           

 

What We Learned This Week

• Oilstain Lab creates high end retro futuristic designer sports car - in EV models
• EV Car Designers for Gearheads who hate EVs
• All the capabilities of a sports car, on a liteweight carbon fiber frame, + sound & an electric motor
• Inspired by the race cars of Italy & classic 1960s sports cars

 

 

Guest: Nikita Bridan, Co-Founder, CEO

Nikita Bridan is co-founder & chief executive officer of Oilstainlab. A car design strategist with 15 years of OEM and startup experience, Nikita has worked with world-renowned brands including Lyft, Cruise, GM, Toyota, Genesis, ONE, and more on electrification, platforms, and strategy. In 2019, Nikita co-founded Oilstainlab with his twin brother, Iliya, as an automotive design consultancy service and playground, and developed it into a boundary-pushing, custom vehicle manufacturer. Nikita lives his life as fast as the cars he builds, once being pulled over at 140mph in Arizona and getting off with a warning. Nikita earned bachelor’s degrees in Transportation Design from the Istitudo Europeo di Design in Italy and the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, where he now serves as an instructor to the next generation of designers.

 

Leading a New Generation of Automotive with Oilstainlab Co-Founder Nikita Bridan

The future of automotive design is in the hands of twin brothers, Nikita and Iliya Bridan. 

The founders of Oilstainlab have turned heads worldwide with their automotive creations, most notably the Half-11, its half Porsche-half Formula 1 race car that pays homage to the golden age of motor racing. 

The Bridan  brothers are motor maniacs who credit to Gran Turismo for fueling their passion for car design from a young age. The brothers dropped out of high school at age 14 to pursue a design education and would eventually earn degrees in Transportation Design from the Istitudo Europeo di Design in Italy and the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. 

During their career they have worked for world-renowned car brands including Toyota, Scion, Lexus, General Motors, Honda, Acura and more, bringing 6.5M cars to the road, securing 13 patents, and winning multiple awards including Motor Trend “SUV of the Year.” 

In 2019, the brothers went into business for themselves. They opened Oilstainlab as a design consultancy and playground with clients ranging from EV start-ups, space vehicles, movie vehicles, hydrogen start-ups, and more.  

In 2024 the brothers unveiled their first car, the HF-11. The HF-11 is the perfect mix of speed, comfort and intelligence. It offers 650 horsepower 12000RPMs and a top speed over 200 mph. The all-carbon fiber bodywork forges a radical shape obsessively honed for extreme velocities, while the interior offers all the comforts of modern-day vehicles.

The company will keep turning heads with maniac design, world class advisory council going into 2025…and changing automotive landscape.

 

 

 

 

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Seg 2

 

Oil stain lab is a boutique, sports car designer, using an EV format.

They start their design with the driver in mind, then sketch it out and think with an inside out strategy. They wanted to build a high-end retro futuristic 1960s motorsports inspired type car. These cars are expensive with future tech.

 

1960s sports cars were dangerous and cool. The last era of sports cars before car regulations were changed in the early 1970s.

 

The second step is a computer design. The car body uses a light carbon fiber frame. They also enhance their car with the idea and sound of combustion in an electric EV car.

 

It has a flat skateboard type platform designed very different than an actual sports car. Normally EV battery is at the bottom, but Oilstainlab put the EV battery where the engine would be. Lightweight car of 2000 pounds.

 

Compact and efficient, using a 911 Porsche as a model.Power train is in the back of the car, which is challenging.

 

Comfortable EV sports car, two seater with a manual transmission.

 

Has an audio signature, which is very important, creates real sound of 110 decimals.

Oilstainlab is building cars for gear heads, not a traditional EV nerd type. Building EV cars for people who hate EVS.

 

Goes up to speeds of 200 mph, 0 to 100 in 5 seconds. Plus the driver can enjoy switching gears.

 

 

Seg 3

 

Twin brothers Nikita and Iliana created the company. Originally from Ukraine, then moved to Italy when they were teenagers. Eventually settled in California and created Oilstainlab.

 

Prior, they were auto designers for 10 years. Started Oilstainlab in 2019 with the design idea. In 2020 they started to actually manufacture cars. Fall of 2024 they came out with their HF 11 model.

 

Brothers were inspired by the 1960s motorsport cars and your famous Italian sports cars like Ferrari and Lamborghini.

 

They wanted to bring in the Hollywood flair of storytelling and branding. Think of Steve McQueen movies with the height of the sports car from 1967 through 1972.

 

1972 was the end of an era, with new emission standards that killed good designs.

The 1960 sports cars were a wild west of innovation. Collectors still want these cars with their combustion engines.

 

Oilstainlab is bringing back that spirit within the next generation of car design. Building an EV car with power. Building an EV car for the EV hater.

 

There are challenges in this, with how heavy the car is and where to put the battery.

 

Aspark Owl, a $3 million car, claims to be the fastest EV in the world. It weighs 5700 pounds. Also has no noise or vibration, so it does not catch the nostalgia of a sports car.

 

Oilstainlab has a light car, manual transmission, plus that classic combustion sound. They replicate the experience, creating a bridge to the past with a future style sports car.

 

Car cost $1 million and their typical clients age from 40 to 60 years old.

Using the 1960s car design, purity of a driving experience.

 

When they built the prototype, they were thinking about the driver first. They hired sports car drivers like JR Hildebrand, and Rick Noob to test. These guys were racecar drivers.

 

The 1960s cars were planned to be obsolete, the design will age out.

 

Post 1972 with the economic and fuel crisis, cars were mass produced.

No more exotic designs, no real soul, they all look the same.

Cars companies simply did not spend as much on research and development.

 

 

Seg 4

 

Thunderbolt has that combustion field type engine with their EV launch in April 2025

 

We will have a carbon fiber tub and re-create the excitement of the experience.

 

Oilstainlab is backed by an investor who has experience in Green tech and is an entrepreneur.

 

Oilstainlab is loved by the car maniacs, and they see themselves as maniacs too.

 

Cool EVS can help the entire EV market and change an image

Oil stain lab is making a halo product for the entire industry.

 

They have advisors who review and drive the car – who are surprised when the EV sounds like combustion for the gearheads, creating a shock when people drive it, not even realizing it’s an EV car.

 

Collectors want the sound of an original car, but also lightweight and manual driving for the unique experience.

 

Oilstainlab with their design is reconditioning the mind of what is possible with an EV car.

 

Their new Thunderbolt design will have swap ability, for the maniac ethos, with new engineering.

 

All goes back to how they were inspired with the famous sports cars of Italy, like Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Pagani. Italy is the Mecca of auto passion, culture, and approach to how a sports car should be done.

 

 

 

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