Italian auto giant Ferrari’s first all-electric vehicle may have faced criticism from purist fans, but it has defied it all to sell for $40 million, making it the most expensive new car ever sold at auction.
Sotheby’s charity auction of the Luce “tailor-made” at Monterey Car Week in California broke a record posted last year, when the company’s customised Daytona SP3 sold for $26 million, according to a statement by Ferrari.
The car combines more than 1,000 horsepower with four doors. The Ferrari Luce is powered by four electric engines, one on each wheel, with a power output of 1,050 cv, and can accelerate to 100 km/h in 2.5 seconds, according to the company website. The vehicle has a top speed of 310 km/h and a range of 530 km on a full charge. It uses a 122 kWh battery pack, has an 800V architecture, and weighs 2,260kg. The car has been fitted with a new vehicle control unit (VCU), which, according to the company, networks all the systems and updates targets 200 times per second. It has a total torque of 7750 N · m at the wheels.
The model was designed with LoveFrom, the studio founded by Jony Ive, former design chief at Apple and a key figure behind the iPhone and iMac. The front engines deliver 210kW at the axle, while the rears generate 620KW.
Luce is a capacious hatchback with room for five people on board, according to Ferrari.
