Ferrari’s Luce Is A Four-Door EV Designed By The iPhone Guy

Ferrari’s first electric car carries four motors and 1,035 horsepower.
The Luce seats five and adds a rear hatch, breaking with supercar tradition.
Sir Jonathan Ive’s LoveFrom handled the exterior and interior design.

We’ve officially entered a new automotive age that includes an electric Ferrari. We saw disguised test vehicles roaming around Europe. Executives talked around it. Spy photographers chased camouflaged prototypes. But there was always a sense that Maranello was buying itself more time before confronting what might be the biggest challenge in its modern history. Well, time’s up. Meet the Ferrari Luce.

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Ferrari didn’t tiptoe into electrification either. Rather than building a low-volume experiment or a softened-up grand tourer, it has created something entirely new: a four-door, five-seat, four-motor EV making 1,035 hp (772 kW / 1,050 PS) and capable of hitting 62 mph (100 km/h) in just 2.5 seconds. That’s only marginally slower than a couple of American sedans that cost under $300,000.

The company says Luce (Italian for “light”) isn’t intended to be viewed as merely Ferrari’s EV. Instead, Maranello calls it a “Ferrari 360°,” a completely new product intended to broaden the brand without replacing combustion or hybrid models. To that end, it’s not a ‘supercar’ in the traditional sense, of course. Thanks to the EV architecture, this is the first Ferrari in history that can shuttle a driver and four passengers at the same time.

A Four-Door Ferrari Designed From Scratch

The Luce was shaped almost entirely by LoveFrom, the studio set up by Jony Ive and Marc Newson together after leaving Apple. Outside design houses are not new to Maranello….

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