Mercedes-AMG at the 2016 Paris auto show confirmed development of a hypercarpacking
the same powertrain as the Mercedes AMG Formula One team’s world championship
winners. The car will be revealed in 2017 to celebrate AMG’s 50th anniversary
and will start deliveries the following year.
With
work on a rival model taking place at Aston Martin and Red Bull Racing design centers,
understandably AMG is keeping most of its car's details a secret. However, Autocar has
managed to learn a few things from AMG boss Tobias Moers at this week’s 2016
Los Angeles auto show.
He said the car will deliver about 1,000 horsepower, which
is roughly what the powertrain in the current F1 cars delivers. He also said
that between 200 and 300 examples will be built and that the project was being
handled fully in-house. There had been some speculation that Lotus Engineering
was helping with the handling, but Moers denied this.
The car is expected to resemble a Le Mans prototype racer
for the road. It will be built almost entirely from carbon fiber, with Moers boasting
that it will be the most efficient performance car in every respect, i.e.
aerodynamics, fuel consumption, weight and power.
The key is the powertrain, which will essentially be the
power unit from Mercedes AMG’s 2015 F1 car but modified for road use.
Moers has previously stated that surprisingly little modification was required
for road use. The F1 car’s power unitconsists
of a turbocharged 1.6-liter V-6, two motor-generators and a lithium-ion
battery.
One of the motor-generators is connected to the main
driveshaft and aids the engine during high loads and can recovery energy under
braking. The other motor-generator is integrated with the engine’s
turbocharger. It’s used to spool up the turbo to help prevent lag and at other
times can recapture energy from the normally wasted exhaust gasses.
This will be one of the rare instances where there is
direct, undiluted technology transfer between an F1 car and road car.
But development of AMG’s hypercar is about much more than
just bragging rights. It signals the start of the Affalterbach tuner’s pivot
towards electrified drivetrains, which will soon feature predominantly among
its lineup.
source: http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1107361_more-details-on-mercedes-amgs-f1-derived-hypercar
by Viknesh Vijayenthriran
http://www.boscheuropean.com
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