The ultimate electric Ferrari, the Elettrica, is here, at least in part, with the chassis and underlying technology revealed in the first step. How it will look inside and out is still a well-kept secret, reserved by Ferrari for Spring 2026.
This won’t be a mix-and-match of borrowed EV technology as it’s a pure Ferrari effort, breaking into a new frontier while drawing on decades of racing and engineering mastery. And guiding it all is a subnuclear physicist.
Only the underpinnings
Ferrari unveiled the production-ready chassis and powertrain components of its first complete electric vehicle during its Capital Markets Day 2025 and a Technology & Innovation Workshop held in Maranello, Italy, for a select group of journalists.
What they didn’t get to see was the car itself. Only its ‘underpinnings’. Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna emphasized that the final design is already ‘locked’, meaning that internally, everybody has agreed on how it will look, but the reveal will be done in three parts.
First, the raw technical specifications are provided, followed by interior specifications and pricing in Spring 2026, and finally, the entire new car in all its glory in Q2 2026.
Four doors, four motors
What we do know is the first technical specs and that it will be a four-door with a 2,960 mm wheelbase, weighing 2,300 kilograms. Not Ferrari’s lightest sports car, apparently.
The Maranello icon revealed the bare chassis and hardware of its first EV: four independent motors (one per wheel) enabling torque vectoring, a 122 kWh battery, and more than 1,000 hp on tap.
That’s relatively ‘meager’ compared to electric four-door supercars like the Chinese Xiaomi SU7 Ultra with its 1,526 hp or the +3,000 horsepower of BYD’s Yangwang U9.
Usable power and controllability
It suggests that Ferrari may not aim to match or exceed absolute peak numbers, but instead emphasize usable power, trimming, torque vectoring, and controllability in real-world driving.
The Elletrica will accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 2.5 seconds, yet still reaches a top speed of 310 km/h. The Xiaomi tops at 350 km/h, and the Yangwang U9 Xtreme has just set a new record as the world’s fastest production car, clocking a top speed of 496.22 km per hour. But that’s a two-seater race monster.
800-volts architecture
The electric Ferrari is built on an 800-volt architecture and charges at up to 350 kW. With its big 122 kWh battery pack, assembled in-house with NMC pouch cells from South Korea’s SK, it claims a range of 530 km.
Underneath, a recycled-aluminum structure and torque-vectoring wizardry promise the balance of an actual Ferrari. The layout of the cells is designed to minimise inertia and lower the centre of gravity, placing them where possible behind the driver’s seat, Ferrari states.
“85% of the module’s weight is situated under the floorpan, while the remainder is located under the rear seat. This solution allows for a shorter wheelbase and minimizes inertia to maximize driving pleasure in all situations, with an optimal weight distribution of 47–53%.”
The Elettrica utilizes the same Ferrari third-generation active 4-volt electric suspension found in the latest Purosangue. Sensors detect the road with a one-millisecond latency, enabling the system to take action within five milliseconds.
No fake 12-cylinder sound
No fake roaring sounds to mimic a Ferrari 12-cylinder, but the sound is said to be authentic ‘electric’. It’s actually amplified from the vibrations of the powertrain, not faked through speakers.
The Elettrica isn’t silent; it’s intended to be a new kind of symphony, as the sound of an ICE engine is for most die-hard petrolheads a way of ‘feeling’ what the car wants to communicate while driving it to the limits.
An electric car is dead-silent when it needs to be, a luxury factor. Still, Ferrari aims to deliver on the holistic experience, encompassing driving dynamics, brand prestige, and emotional connection.
It utilizes a system that, like an electric guitar, captures the vibrations of the strings, amplifying the actual vibrations of the drivetrain components with sensors at the motors that can spin at up to 30,000 RPM. A sound that matches exactly what the motors produce, making it as authentic as its ICE antipole.
A non-traditional automotive exec
It’s one of those things we might expect Ferrari will use to set itself apart from the masses again, with a car that is estimated not to come cheap, within the $500,000 range ($430,000).
A project driven by a non-traditional automotive executive. Benedetto Vigna’s roots are in sensors, MEMS, and electronics, which give him technical credibility in areas central to electric vehicles, autonomy, sensing, software integration, and systems engineering.
Born 10 April 1969 in Potenza, Italy (region of Basilicata), Vigna grew up in the nearby municipality of Pietrapertosa and graduated cum laude in subnuclear physics from the University of Pisa in 1993.
Subnuclear physics is the branch of physics that studies the constituents of atomic nuclei and the forces that act between them. However, he walked a different path and joined STMicroelectronics in 1995.
He founded and led the MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) business unit at that location. Over his career, he filed more than 200 patents in micromachining, sensors, and MEMS.
His track record of patents and leading new technology domains suggests he is comfortable pushing frontiers and managing R&D, a helpful trait as Ferrari transitions to EVs and advanced systems.
Challenging new automotive engineering
Ferrari faces the challenge of integrating high-performance automotive engineering with advanced electronics, software, battery tech, and thermal systems.
Vigna’s background allows him to understand both sides in a way more typical car CEOs (with only automotive experience) might not. But how does a scientist like this match with a sports car brand that thrives on design, performance, and emotion?
Ferrari has its in-house Centro Stile design center, led by Flavio Manzoni, who joined in 2010 and led Ferrari away from relying almost exclusively on external design houses, such as Pininfarina.
Help from a former Apple guru
Still, Ferrari likes to bring in external creative partners for strategic collaborations, as evidenced by its multi-year creative partnership with LoveFrom, signed in 2021.
The latter is an innovative collective headquartered in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019 by former Apple design guru Jony Ive, a British-American, with Australian industrial designer Marc Newson as a key collaborator.
At Apple, ‘Sir’ Jony Ive was responsible for the design of many of their most iconic products: the iMac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and the interfaces and hardware aesthetics that defined Apple’s visual language.
He also stood at the cradle of Project Titan, which ultimately turned out to be a dead-end Apple Car project. We might therefore expect some bold innovations in user experience and emotional appeal for this all-electric Ferrari.
And it was a man steeped in the rigorous logic of nuclear physics, Benedetto Vigna, who drew him into the Elletrica project in 2021 when Ferrari hired Vigna himself.
