Video Summary
Here is the summary of the video:- This is Maserati’s first battery electric vehicle (BEV).
- It still looks like a Gran Turismo.
- There is a lot of leather and nice stitching inside.
- It includes a large touch screen across the top of the dashboard and a smaller one below for climate control.
- There are a few drive modes: max range, GT, sport, and corsa. The ride height, damping, steering weight, and throttle response all change with the mode.
- Max range should yield 450 km of range.
- The battery is in a T-shape that runs through the transmission tunnel and across the back seats.
- The battery has 90 kWh of usable range.
- Zero to 100 km/hr will take about 2.9 seconds.
- The body is 65% aluminum. The rest of it is a mix of steel and magnesium, but the all-up weight of the car is 2,250 kgs.
- The battery pack, which is 800V with a 270-kW charging rate, outputs 760 horsepower.
- There is one motor at the front, which has a differential, and two at the back with no differential.
- Double wishbone aluminum suspension at the front, and five-link aluminum suspension at the rear.
- The car's computer can send 100% drive to the rear wheels, or split it front and rear up to 50%.
- As it’s still six to seven months away from customer delivery, all the testing still needs to be completed.
- The V6 engine will cost 130-150,000 pounds.
- The electric version will cost closer to 200,000 pounds.
- The steering is very smooth, and the car turns well for its weight. The reviewer suspects there is torque vectoring at work.
- You cannot turn off the noise.
- It feels well sorted, with really quick electronic systems responses.
- Though it’s not a traditional Maserati, it is fun, enjoyable, and benign in terms of its handling.
- For manufacturers whose appeal is tied to the sound of their engines, the challenge for EV models is, how do they maintain the driving appeal without that sound?
- Compared to the V6, the electric model offers a unique proposition.
