- The Ferrari F80 is the successor to the LaFerrari.
- It has three electrical motors; the rear motor can also 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 moderately spectacular one at that–but it surely’s the hybrid system that caught my consideration. (If you wish to know extra concerning the F80 on the whole, you’ll be able to 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 whole 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 typical turbos.
Then, there are the electrical drive items, 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 gasoline 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 might probably additionally do regenerative braking and seize as much as 70 kilowatts when slowing down.
Carbon fiber was used extensively within the battery-powered drive items, together with for the stator, rotor and magnet sleeve–all improvements borrowed from Ferrari’s System 1 program. Every of the entrance motors weighs simply 28 kilos, the rear motor suggestions the scales at a powerful 19.4 lbs and the high-voltage battery is simply 86 lbs. The complete entrance axle, together with the motors, cooling system and inverter, weighs 135 lbs–it additionally has a dry sump lubrication system and might provide torque vectoring due to its dual-motor design.
Talking concerning the high-voltage battery, it might probably’t be recharged from an EV charger as a result of it’s not a plug-in hybrid, so the engine is the one power supply for it. That stated, 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 might cost and discharge at a most charge of 242 kW.
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Right here’s probably the most fascinating 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 automobile 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 can be sometimes present in combustion vehicles.
The inverter on the entrance axle transforms the direct present into alternating present for the motors, however it might probably additionally act the opposite means round and ship energy from the motors to the battery underneath regenerative braking. One other bidirectional inverter is used for the rear motor, which, by the way in which, can also be used because the starter for the V-6 engine underneath the hood.
Whereas this may not 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 underneath growth and can debut someday subsequent yr with an estimated price ticket of properly over $500,000. If the F80–which, granted, prices an eye-watering $4 million stateside–is so high-tech, we’ll doubtless be in for a nice shock when the EV goes on sale. Even when it has a speaker that pumps out pretend V-8 engine sounds.
