Ferrari Luce Review: Price, Engine, HP, Features & Performance

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Automotive history has a couple moments of being divided in time into “before” and “after.” The Ferrari Luce is among them. 

The Ferrari Luce was not simply another electric car; it was announced on May 25, 2026, in Rome, the same city where Ferrari celebrated 79 years since its first race victory. It’s a declaration. The Jony Ive-designed, 1,050-horsepower, four-motor declaration that Ferrari can electrify without losing its soul. This new car launch continues to lead discussions around upcoming cars and upcoming new cars. 

So is the Ferrari Luce a Ferrari, and what does it cost, and does it even match the legend? Let’s get into it. 

Ferrari Luce Specs at a Glance

Specification	Detail
Powertrain	Quad-motor, all-wheel drive
Ferrari Luce Horsepower	1,035–1,050 hp (peak)
Ferrari Luce Torque	730 lb-ft combined
Battery	122 kWh NMC (SK On)
Architecture	880V
WLTP Range	330 miles (530+ km)
0–62 mph	2.5 seconds
Ferrari Luce Top Speed	193 mph (310 km/h)
Max DC Charging	350 kW
Body Style	5-door, 5-seat sedan/GT
Length	197.6 inches
Weight	~4,960 lbs (2,250 kg)
First Deliveries	October 2026 (Italy)

What Is the Ferrari Luce?

The Ferrari Luce, which has the name of the brand in Italian (loo-cheh for “light”) and is Ferrari’s first-ever fully electric production car? It’s a four-door, five-seat grand tourer, somewhat resembling a hypercar as a family sedan that arrives at the pinnacle of the Ferrari lineup alongside, not in place of, combustion and hybrid models. This new car launch continues to lead discussions around upcoming cars and upcoming new cars. 

Now, Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna has been explicit: “This is an addition to the lineup, not a transition.” The Luce joins the fire-breathing V8s and V12s from Maranello next to them. It just happens to be able to do things that none of them can. 

Ferrari Luce Engine & Powertrain

There is no engine in the traditional sense here, but the engineering story has gone beyond dramatic. 

Four Electric Motors, One Per Wheel

The Ferrari Luce uses four permanent-magnet synchronous electric motors (one at each corner). This isn’t just a full-wheel drive system but a platform that gives engineers complete autonomy of torque, regenerative power, control, and steering and suspension at every wheel. 

• Rear axle output: 831 hp / 524 lb-ft of torque
• Front axle output: 282 hp / 207 lb-ft of torque
• Combined peak output: 1,035–1,050 hp (772 kW in launch control)

Ferrari’s engineers utilized a Halbach array arrangement in rotors, borrowing from advanced motorsport, to focus the magnetic field and bring the overall motor efficiency to 93 percent. The rear motors spin up to 25,500 RPM; the front motors top 30,000 RPM. They aren’t numbers you encounter on road cars. This new car launch continues to lead discussions around upcoming cars and upcoming new cars. 

Ferrari Luce Horsepower & Torque

Mode	Power Output	Horsepower (HP)	Drive Type	Purpose
Range	320 kW	429 hp	Rear-biased	Efficiency & Daily Driving
Tour	460 kW	617 hp	All-wheel drive	Comfortable Performance
Performance	725 kW	972 hp	All-wheel drive	High-Speed Driving
Boost / Launch Control	772 kW	1,035 hp	All-wheel drive	Maximum Acceleration & Launch Power

In Boost Mode, full power is available in under one second. Ferrari’s new Torque Shift Engagement system, which is accessed via steering wheel paddles, isn’t designed for the kind of gear changes that you’d probably think would come naturally. Rather, it dynamically tailors the power delivered and regenerative braking based on “power level,” offering the driver a feeling of interplay while not faking being something it’s not. 

Ferrari Luce Performance: 0–60, Top Speed & More

The performance numbers are clearly staggering. 

• 0–62 mph (0–100 km/h): 2.5 seconds
• 0–124 mph (0–200 km/h): 6.8 seconds 
• Top speed (Ferrari Luce top speed): 193 mph (310 km/h)
• Weight: just under 5,000 lbs (approx. 2,270 kg)

The fact that a five-seat, nearly 5,000 lb grand tourer can handle 62 mph in 2.5 seconds, faster than most dedicated, supercars tells you everything we need to know on performance engineering. For background, the top speed of Range mode is 162 mph (260 km/h). In Performance mode, you get the full 193 mph. This new car launch continues to lead discussions around upcoming cars and upcoming new cars. 

Ferrari Luce Battery, Range & Charging

122 kWh Battery Pack

The Luce employs a 122 kWh NMC (nickel manganese cobalt) lithium-ion battery and was built via an 880-volt architecture, one of the highest-voltage architectures in any production car, in collaboration with SK On. 

Ferrari built the battery straight into the vehicle, increasing rigidity in the body part and also lowering the center of gravity. It is not a battery bolted underneath a platform. It is the platform. 

Range

WLTP range: up to 330 miles (530+ km)

Estimated EPA range: approximately 280 miles

Charging Speed

Maximum DC fast charging: 350 kW

Under 25 minutes, 10–80% charge

70 kWh replenishment time: about 20 minutes

These numbers make the Luce one of the world’s fastest-charging high-performance EVs. 

Ferrari Luce Design & Exterior

Jony Ive—the legendary architect behind the original iPhone, the iMac, and the Apple Watch—left Apple in 2019, forming a design co-founded by Ferrari’s Centro Stile (under Flavio Manzoni) and LoveFrom, the design firm. 

The method was not mainstream: Ferrari’s engineers had constructed surfaces around aerodynamic and structural needs first. Love from them expressed the result. The result: 197.6 inches long (close to Tesla Model S length), 78.7 inches wide, and 60.6 inches tall, about 2 inches less than the Purosangue SUV. 

The drag coefficient of 0.254 Cd is decent for the segment, even if Ferrari was clearly going for visual drama over flat slipperiness. The design is divisive. There are no two ways about it. But it’s also plainly intentional; each surface has a purpose, and no other car on the road looks very much like it. This new car launch continues to lead discussions around upcoming cars and upcoming new cars. 

Ferrari Luce Interior

If the exterior is polarizing, the interior is where all-out-universal adoration begins to come into play. 

Jony Ive’s LoveFrom studio, collaborating with Flavio Manzoni’s Ferrari Style Center, designed a cabin that feels authentically unlike anything else at this price. 

Key Interior Features

• Instrument cluster: 12.5-inch digital display with a physical needle in the speedometer.
• Infotainment: 10-inch screen (iPad-sized but Ferrari-designed). 
• Controls: Physical buttons, glass toggles, and tactile switches throughout, an intentional rejection of the all-touchscreen trend. 
• Rear cabin: Three-person full seat in back bench; rear passengers each have their own screen displaying real-time performance data. 
• Boot space: 597 liters, more than the Purosangue. 
• Floor: Flat and lacks a central tunnel (easier to achieve since battery placement on top of the floor). 

The sound design is worthy of note here too. Rather than pipe fake engine noise up a speaker pipe way (a compromise Ferrari certainly refused), the Luce uses an accelerometer to detect real vibrations within its electric motors and rear chassis, which are amplified in kind, akin to how an electric guitar transmutes physical vibrations to audible ones. The philosophy is Ferrari’s, and whether or not it’s convincing remains to be seen. 

Ferrari Luce Price

The price for the Ferrari Luce starts at €550,000, roughly $640,000 USD or £500,000 GBP upfront, but before bespoke options. 

This places it very firmly in the ultra-luxury performance sector, alongside the Rolls-Royce Spectre and the Bentley Batur. But from a purely performance standpoint, nothing within that price range gets to it. However, that is the price of a flagship Ferrari grand tourer with 1,050 electric horsepower and a Jony Ive interior. 

The first deliveries are scheduled for Italy in October 2026, and a more global rollout will ensue. 

How Does the Ferrari Luce Compare?

Car	Power	0–60 mph	Range	Price
Ferrari Luce	1,050 hp	2.5 sec	~330 mi	~$640,000
Porsche Taycan Turbo GT	1,092 hp	2.2 sec	~280 mi	~$230,000
Rimac Nevera	1,914 hp	1.85 sec	~340 mi	~$2.4M
Rolls-Royce Spectre	577 hp	4.5 sec	~320 mi	~$430,000

The Luce occupies an odd spot: faster than anyone else at whatever a legacy luxury brand costs and far more livable than the Nevera. A GT car that will also be a supercar. 

Is the Ferrari Luce Worth It?

It all depends on what you’re purchasing. If you’re merely chasing lap time or drag strip glory, the Rimac Nevera still wins. But that is completely a shortcoming of the Luce. 

This is Ferrari saying: we can build an electric car that still makes you feel something.” The sound system constructed from authentic motor vibrations, the tactile buttons Jony Ive has been obsessed with, and the way 1,050 hp is delivered in under a second are all not by accident. 

For the person who wishes to buy the most emotionally resonant electric GT in the world—and has the $640,000 to show its value—the Ferrari Luce is absolutely without equal.

Final Verdict

The Ferrari Luce is truly a historic car. Not because it’s electric — a lot of cars are electric — but because Ferrari embraced the hardest possible task in “making an EV that feels like a Ferrari” and seems to have solved it all for real. 

Fitted with more than 1,050 hp, a 2.5-second sprint to 60 mph, 330 miles of range, and a Jony Ive interior, with a $640,000 start price, the Luce is at once the most powerful, most expensive, and most technologically ambitious car in Ferrari’s history. 

It’s no secret that if you love the exterior or not, it reflects what we have coming for the future of Maranello, reaching 193 mph.  

Disclaimer: The specifications, performance data, and pricing are for informational purposes only. Values may vary based on condition, originality, and market trends. Prices are estimates. For accurate details, consult the website and sources. 

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