Maserati Grantismo Folgore 2024: the ultimate electric racing car.

The heart of any racing or performance car is its transmission.

Motorsport has always driven the performance of internal combustion engines. Formula E Racing development opens up new ways of power and energy consumption.

Solutions are not always cheap. Large racing budgets and the price of luxury grand tourers can drive any kind of innovation.

The 2024 Maserati Grantismo Folgore uses three engines designed and built by Maserati.

Each rotor contains 100 permanent magnets in the form of complex v-shaped figures.

These are traditional radial flow cylindrical engines rather than pancake style axial flow.

None of them can be disabled, so they always work, and all these magnets make these motors too expensive.

To achieve a low driver’s seat and leg position as in the Grantismo with a Nettuno V-6 engine, which has changed little from the previous model.

The battery pack fills the center tunnel, expanding into the engine bay at the front and under the seats at the rear.

The batteries are made up of 32 modules in a kit that is produced at Maserati’s Mirafiori plant near Turin.

The total power is 92.5 kWh, 88.0 of which are usable.

An 800-volt battery can be quickly charged with 270 kW DC. This allows you to charge the battery from 20 to 80% in 18 minutes.

Level 2 AC charging power can reach 22kW with the 100A L2 charger, and is expected to upgrade to 300kW or 350kW fast charge.

Each engine gets its own inverter (to convert battery power in the form of DC to AC suitable for powering the electric motor) and Maserati says the car will be the first in production with these more efficient and more expensive Formula E carbide transistor based converters. silicon.

They play a key role in both Grantismo’s power and comparative efficiency.

All of these permanent magnets are capable of withstanding high electromagnetic flux, delivering powerful torque over a wide RPM range.

Each engine can produce 402 hp. and 450 Nm of torque on the road.

But the battery can produce only 751 hp, and then only for 30 seconds of continuous operation at full power.

And while the EPA has yet to get its hands on a Maserati for testing, the manufacturer expects a range of 400 kilometers on a single charge — impressive given the size of the car, the long gear in the gearbox and the lack of a mechanism for disengaging it for highway driving.

The top speed is 321 km/h, and the 2024 Maserati Grantismo Folgore achieves it with a single ratio, spinning the engines to 17,600 rpm through a 6.90:1 gearing at the front and 7.20:1 at the rear.

Even with this comparatively high gearing, the battery and motors are powerful enough to propel the Grantismo Folgore to 100 km/h in 2.6 seconds.

Hold the accelerator at full speed and the car will sprint from 0 to 200 km/h in 8.0 seconds and reach top speed in 32 seconds – just when the battery starts to drain power.

The 2024 Maserati Grantismo Folgore is a comfortable, laid-back continent crosser very similar to the Bentley Continental.

He is beautiful outside and inside. And $200,000 well spent.

Its launch is in the third quarter of 2023.