Enzo Ferrari said he was a seller of engines and that the rest of the car is thrown in for free, such was the emphasis he and his company put on its jewel-like power units. Can the same ever be true of an electric car’s seemingly soulless motors, batteries, and inverters? That is the question Ferrari is at pains to answer in the positive with its first EV .
Although nameless for now, the four-door car will use a new electric platform called Elettrica. The platform is a familiar skateboard EV chassis setup, as used by almost everyone else, but with four motors instead of the more common one or two.
Total power is a little over 1,000 horsepower, the 0-62 mph time is 2.5 seconds and the top speed is 192 mph. The battery has a gross capacity of 122 kWh—one of the largest fitted to any