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Mercedes-AMG Project One


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The new Mercedes AMG Project One, the world’s first road legal car with a Formula 1 powertrain. 

Power comes from a reworked version of the hybrid system found in the W08 F1 car, including the turbocharged 1.6-liter V6 engine and no less than four electric motors. 

The two front electric motors are state-of-the-art units, being capable of revving up to 50,000rpm when the current best motors in the market rev up to 20,000rpm. The third electric motor is integrated into the turbocharger while the fourth one is mounted directly on the combustion engine.  Each one of the front motors are producing 160hp (120kW), with the electric motor on the engine making the same amount of power and the one mounted on the turbocharger being a 120hp (90kW) unit. Total power output is "over 1000hp".

Project One is capable of a 0-124mph (200km/h) in less than 6 seconds.

It has a 15.5-mile all-electric range, a drive system that operates with 800 volts instead of the usual 400, a variable all-wheel drive system with torque vectoring and a sizeable lithium-ion battery pack that uses the same cells, arrangement and cell cooling system with -you guessed it- the Mercedes-AMG F1 car. The company also says that under normal driving conditions, the system recuperates up to 80 percent of the energy needed, which is then fed back to the battery. 

 

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Only 275 to be made or something - and like all these insane cars (price, performance, rarity, technical boundary pushing) were apparently all sold as soon as its existence was whispered...

It is a massive technology jump for road cars, the stats are amazing.   Koenigsegg's Regera is now looking a little old tech...

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