After a long wait and in a rapidly changing electric car climate Ferrari Luce debuted as the company’s first electric vehicle. It is the first Ferrari to introduce a radical new look and new technology, not only under the skin, but also where the driver can see.
The Luce’s exterior was developed by the LoveForm creative collective of ex-Apple designer Jony Ive and Marc Newson, and while it’s an obvious attempt to merge it with traditional Ferrari design, it’s a different kind of Ferrari. As a four-door, five-seat car, it was bigger than anything the company had produced before, even its Purebred SUV its appearance tries more to match other Ferraris. The wings have some curves reminiscent of what Ferrari has been doing since the turn of the century, but also a smooth, almost Apple Magic Mousesee done.
In keeping with Ferrari’s four-round taillight theme, the Luce is only visible when the car is on. Otherwise, there’s just a black panel. Maybe it depends on the color, but it looks a little odd on the Azzurro La Plata (Blue-Silver) that Ferrari used in some photos.
Retractable door handles hide the fact that it’s a four-door, while the rear doors hang back like the Purosangue. In fact, the Luce has roughly the same footprint as that SUV, though its appearance is very different, and it looks more assertive thanks to its relatively short front end. You either like it or you don’t.
We looked in February Luce’s interioralso done with LoveForm. That means there are more screens than a typical Ferrari, with two Samsung-made OLED screens, including a central touchscreen infotainment system that can be brought closer to the driver. There’s lots of aluminum and glass, and there are physical, albeit traditional, Ferrari gauges behind the steering wheel, which are digital.
However, Ferrari’s first electric car hasn’t gone nearly all-screen, or the touchscreen-capable Tesla, Lucid, and even Volvo and BMW they have recently launched electrics. The gear selector is glass and physical and has toggles for various functions, plus four window switches and drive selector switches on the steering wheel, just like the company’s other recent products.
Performance should be less controversial, with four electric motors making a total of 1,035 horsepower, with two rear motors making 831 horsepower each, giving the Luce a traditional rear-bias. The automaker claims a 0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) time of 2.5 seconds and a top speed of 193 mph.
The Luce uses an 800-volt electrical architecture and a 122kWh battery pack with up to 350kW of charging capacity, similar to the specs of something like a Porsche Taycan or Kia EV9. The EPA hasn’t rated it for coverage, and it’s unclear if US models will run on Tesla’s Supercharger network, however Car and driver Ferrari estimates a maximum range of 280 miles.
While being a supercar brand mate Lamborghini has backed away from its EV goals Amid an uncertain market for all-electric supercars earlier this year (and the rather precarious financial situation of parent company Volkswagen Group), Ferrari continued. Back in 2022, Ferrari said that electric cars would make up 40% of its model line-up, and then announced that there would be three models. Reuters.
However, the automaker said a second EV in 2025 would be extended until at least 2028, and Ferrari also pushed back the Luce from its 2025 launch date, saying EVs would make up 20% of its model line-up, with 40% going to hybrid and gas models each. The first Luces will be delivered this fall, though the first U.S. models aren’t expected until spring 2027.
The electric supercar market is even a small fraction of the small supercar market. Despite claims that the second-generation Tesla Roadster was revealed as a prototype in November 2017 and is still in the works after deposits have been taken, it’s a very clear idea for the company and its CEO. Tesla recently It killed the Model S and X cars and hence the crazy Plaid lineup.
Porsche has a 1,000-horsepower Taycan Turbo GT on sale from 2024, but it’s also a sedan, and the company has now ditched all-electricity, with gasoline versions of the previously EV-only 718 sports car expected and more SUV-like Macan and Cayenne models. Mercedes-Benz recently unveiled a new electric car AMG GT 4 Door Up to 1,153bhp, but that’s more car than the Luce. This puts the Ferrari Luce in a very small class.
And even more interestingly, if Ferrari hadn’t split from the former Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in 2016, it would have been part of the American-French-Italian behemoth Stellantis, which would have gotten a big boost under new management. add more gas and hybrid cars and ditch full EVs. In some ways, regardless of what you think of it and what it represents for Ferrari, it’s a miracle that the Luce is electric at all.
