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BYD’s Yangwang U9 will rival Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Tesla Roadster

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BYD launched a new high-performance electric supercar under the Yangwang brand on Sunday, and the U9, as it has been named, will rival the brands of Ferrari and Lamborghini and, eventually, the Tesla Roadster. Its air suspension system offers a wide range of dance modes, while the adoption of four electric motors allows it to spin in place.

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Rolls-Royce Droptail, Ferrari SF90 successor: Nowadays’s Automotive Information

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Simply 4 are deliberate, every of them concept to price greater than $25 million, and the unedited includes a design impressed via amethyst crystals. Ferrari appears to be within the early levels of building of its alternative for the SF90 supercar.

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Ferrari Hybrid Patents Revealed, Two Motor System

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"Ferrari hybrid" is right up there with "Porsche diesel" and "Bentley SUV" as far as oxymorons go. and Bentley showed an SUV concept at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, so maybe it isn't that unusual after all. Unusual or not, it's a reality--Ferrari has been.

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Ferrari Shows HY-KERS Hybrid Concept at Geneva; StopStart for the Production California

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The layout of the drivetrain for the HY-KERS concept. Ferrari presented a hybrid experimental vehicle, the HY-KERS, based on the 599 GTB Fiorano at the Geneva Motor Show. Position of the battery packs and traction motor. Thus power is coupled seamlessly and instantaneously between the electric motor and the V12.

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Tesla Model S Plaid spotted being benchmarked at Ferrari’s Maranello factory

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Ferrari seems to be doing something very interesting at its Maranello facility. As per sightings from car enthusiasts, Ferrari seems to be benchmarking a Tesla Model S Plaid at the facility. Ferrari testing a Model S Plaid at their Maranello factory in Italy! Oh, Ferrari, what are you doing? . "If

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Is A Ferrari California Hybrid Model In The Works?

Green Car Reports

When you think of automakers building or researching hybrid vehicles, Ferrari probably isn’t the first manufacturer to come to mind. Many people don’t even realize that the automaker has previously shown a hybrid model, the Ferrari 599-based HY-KERS Concept, at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show.

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DLR team develops demonstrator of free-piston linear generator as range extender for EVs; technology transfer to Universal Motor Corp.

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Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Institute of Vehicle Concepts in Stuttgart have developed a demonstrator multi-fuel free-piston linear generator (FPLG, or Freikolbenlineargenerator, FKLG in German) as a range extender for electric vehicles. Cornelius Ferrari, Horst E.

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