Ferrari's first electric car is not what you'd expect

We've all seen the test mules and heard the rumours, but finally Ferrari is showing us

something about its all-electric model. Its design will remain under wraps until its full

reveal next year, but what we do know is that this is set to be the most usable Ferrari yet

Confirmation of its body style is still to come, but it is confirmed that this will be a car with

four seats and four doors. Combine the output from the front and rear axle and you get over

a thousand horsepower, of course. We might not know what it looks like, but we do know that it's

0-62mph time will stand at 2.5 seconds, just two tenths behind the new plug-in hybrid 849

Testarossa. This front axle produces 286bhp, which for the size is very impressive. And that

comes from two motors. The rear also has two motors, making it a four-motor car. At their peak

of 30,000rpm, the forces at play within these front motors are hard to comprehend. Each individual

magnet in the front rotors, which weigh 93 grams, experience 2.3 tons of force

What also makes this front axle unique is that the front axle disconnect and

inverter are integrated within the same package, reducing weight and size to make

it a more efficient system. Of course sound is a very important thing for a Ferrari and this will make not a huge amount of it But Ferrari has thought of that and they are including an accelerometer on the rear axle to amplify the real sounds made by the motor Ferrari is keen to stress that

they don't want to synthesize any sound but only use authentic sounds created by

the motors under the bodywork. When you don't want any noise, Ferrari says you

can turn this sound off. In place of a fuel tank for V-Power you get 15 of these

battery packs filled with 14 cells each. 85% of these modules are located below the floor pan

with the rest placed neatly under the rear seats. With an energy density of 195Wh per kilogram

you can do the maths and calculate that this weighs 626kg alone, making the total weight of

the car 2,300kg. Ferrari does say that thanks to its trick chassis tech, this car feels as if it

weighs 450 kilograms less. We'll have to wait until we get behind the wheel to find out if that is

really the case. This car might be all electric, but it shares a lot with its combustion-powered

counterparts. This is the new 48-volt active suspension, a third generation, a derivative

of the system used in the F80 and first seen in the Pura Sangue. Electrica is this car's working

title for now, but its final name and design will be revealed in Q2 next year