Italian luxury carmaker Ferrari has introduced the Ferrari Luce, the company’s first fully electric vehicle (EV), with a five-seat, four-door model for the high-performance EV segment.
The Ferrari Luce - meaning 'light' in Italian - is based on a dedicated all-electric platform and uses four independently controlled electric motors, with one assigned to each wheel.
“The electric all-wheel drive is a first for a Ferrari. It allows the full potential of torque vectoring to always make the car precise and responsive,” the group said.
It also has a 122kWh battery pack that was developed and assembled in Maranello, Italy.
With a top speed of 310 km/h, Luce will carry a price tag of more than €500,000 ($586,000).
Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna said: “Ferrari Luce was born precisely from this challenge, offering our unprecedented vision of electrification. Never before have we offered our clients such freedom of choice.
“In line with our belief in technological neutrality, we are the first in the world to combine fully electric, hybrid and combustion engine architectures for sports cars.”
According to Ferrari, with a kerb weight of 2260 kg, the model reaches 0-100 km/h in 2.5 seconds and 0-200 km/h in 6.8 seconds.
The company said it has a top speed of more than 310 km/h and a driving range of over 530 km.
Ferrari said the vehicle is part of its multi-energy strategy, which it first outlined at its 2022 Capital Markets Day, and stated that electrification will complement rather than replace its combustion and hybrid powertrains.
The company said the Luce project resulted in more than 60 patents and that all key electric components, including the motors and battery pack, were engineered in-house.
The model was designed in collaboration with LoveFrom, the creative collective led by former Apple designer Sir Jony Ive and Marc Newson, together with Ferrari’s design studio led by Flavio Manzoni.
Ferrari said the EV platform made possible a new configuration featuring four doors and five seats, which it described as the first such layout for the marque.
The Luce includes an 800V electrical architecture, active suspension derived from the Ferrari F80, torque vectoring and regenerative braking systems.
It also debuts Ferrari’s new vehicle control unit, which combines powertrain and vehicle dynamics systems and updates control targets 200 times per second.
Ferrari said the EV features a proprietary “Torque Shift Engagement” system that allows drivers to manually change torque delivery and regenerative braking levels using steering wheel paddles.
The company said the Luce was developed with an emphasis on “aerodynamic” efficiency, achieving what it described as the “lowest drag coefficient” in its history for a road car.
