- The Ferrari F80 is the successor to the LaFerrari.
- It has three electrical motors; the rear motor can be the combustion engine’s starter.
- There are three working voltages: 800 V, 48 V and 12 V.
That is the Ferrari F80. It’s the Italian sportscar producer’s brand-new flagship supercar, following within the footsteps of legendary names just like the F40, Enzo and LaFerrari. And sure, it has a combustion engine–and a quite spectacular one at that–but it surely’s the hybrid system that caught my consideration. (If you wish to know extra concerning the F80 basically, you possibly can try Motor1’s piece right here.)
The F80 is powered by a mid-mounted 3.0-liter V-6 engine that makes an astonishing 900 horsepower by itself, whereas the hybrid system provides one other 300 hp for a grand complete of 1,200 hp. However the combustion engine wouldn’t be so highly effective if it wasn’t for some electrical wizardry. That’s as a result of the two-seat flagship has electrically assisted turbochargers.
An electrical motor that’s put in axially between the turbine and the compressor housing can spin the blades nearly immediately, successfully negating the turbo lag that may generally spoil the driving expertise in combustion-powered vehicles with standard turbos.
Then, there are the electrical drive models, which had been designed in-house. Ferrari fitted the F80 with three electrical motors–two on the entrance and one on the rear–successfully making it all-wheel drive (Ferrari didn’t say, however I assume the fuel engine solely sends energy to the rear axle). Every of the entrance motors makes 140 hp, whereas the rear unit can help the dinosaur-fueled lump with as much as 80 hp–it may additionally do regenerative braking and seize as much as 70 kilowatts when slowing down.
Carbon fiber was used extensively within the battery-powered drive models, together with for the stator, rotor and magnet sleeve–all improvements borrowed from Ferrari’s Components 1 program. Every of the entrance motors weighs simply 28 kilos, the rear motor suggestions the scales at a formidable 19.4 lbs and the high-voltage battery is simply 86 lbs. All the entrance axle, together with the motors, cooling system and inverter, weighs 135 lbs–it additionally has a dry sump lubrication system and may supply torque vectoring due to its dual-motor design.
Talking concerning the high-voltage battery, it may’t be recharged from an EV charger as a result of it’s not a plug-in hybrid, so the engine is the one vitality supply for it. That mentioned, it packs a punch. Regardless of having a capability of simply 2.28 kilowatt-hours, it’s rated at a most voltage of 860V and may cost and discharge at a most price of 242 kW.
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Right here’s essentially the most attention-grabbing half, although: regardless of the F80 having each a 12 V and 48 V electrical system, there’s no 48 V battery, like within the Tesla Cybertruck. As a substitute, Ferrari fitted the automotive with a DC/DC converter that sends energy from the two.3 kWh high-voltage battery to the 48 V adaptive suspension, electrical motors and windshield defroster, in addition to the 12 V ancillaries which are sometimes present in combustion vehicles.
The inverter on the entrance axle transforms the direct present into alternating present for the motors, however it may additionally act the opposite manner round and ship energy from the motors to the battery below regenerative braking. One other bidirectional inverter is used for the rear motor, which, by the way in which, can be used because the starter for the V-6 engine below the hood.
Whereas this won’t be to the liking of hardcore EV fanatics, it’s an indication of issues to come back from Ferrari. Its first-ever all-electric mannequin is below improvement and can debut someday subsequent yr with an estimated price ticket of effectively over $500,000. If the F80–which, granted, prices an eye-watering $4 million stateside–is so high-tech, we’ll probably be in for a pleasing shock when the EV goes on sale. Even when it has a speaker that pumps out faux V-8 engine sounds.
