It’s finally here! The wraps are off Ferrari’s first EV – the Luce. You have read the stats, you have seen elements of the retro-themed and controversial new interior designed by LoveForm, a firm co-founder by former Apple Design Chief Jony Ive and now here’s the Luce in all its entirety. It’s a four door, five-seater, 1050hp born electric GT with 530km estimated range and it happens to wear the prancing horse logo. The order books are already open globally, with prices starting from €550,000 (approximately Rs 6.10 crore).
- Quad electric motors produce a total of 1050hp, 990Nm
- 0-100kph takes a claimed 2.5 seconds, 310kph top-speed and 530km range
- First Ferrari to come with a five-seater interior layout
Ferrari Luce exterior design
Fair to say, the exterior design penned by LoveForm, is just as controversial as the interior. Conceal the badges, and it looks nothing like a Ferrari, not even like a typical high-performance EV. Ferrari says it was always intended to be 'unconventional' and 'disruptive'. Being a born-electric vehicle, it’s really been designed from a clean sheet of paper and harks back to no tradition. The unusual shape deliberately ditches the classic mid-engined look for an almost fastback sedan-like profile.
The design is characterised by what resembles a two-piece body – there’s a gloss black passenger cell that’s wrapped around by a coloured outer shell. Key visual elements include a floating front bridge, from under which the bonnet rises smoothly to meet the windscreen and culminates into a fastback-like roofline. The headlamps appear neatly concealed under this floating bridge, while at the rear, the quad circular tail lamps are perhaps the only spec of familiarity from existing Ferraris. The rear, too, has that wrap around effect, as if the outer shell is hiding a smaller body underneath.
The blacked-out strakes on the front doors vent air from the front wheelarches, and it also gets active cooling fins at the front to reduce drag. A very cool detail are the windshield wipers, which rest vertically at the edges of the windshield, and do not interrupt the flow between the bonnet and the windshield while also reducing drag. Ferrari says the Luce has the lowest drag coefficient of any roadgoing Ferrari at 0.254 cD, which is 25 percent less than an Amalfi, while having the same level of downforce, In fact, the Luce doesn’t use any active aerodynamics for downforce, all in the interest of aerodynamic efficiency.
The Luce is also Ferrari’s largest car yet. Measuring in 5026mm in length, the Luce is 53mm longer than a Purosangue, while measuring 1999mm wide across the body, and 1544mm high, 45mm lower than its SUV stablemate. It has a wheelbase of 2961mm, and it rides on 23-inch front and 24-inch rear wheels – the largest ever fitted to a Ferrari.
Dhruv Dhaka
Glenn Noronha
Viraaj Bhatnagar
Uday Singh
