Maserati Granbrio Fulgora/Maserati
While the major automakers are naturally busy filling their electric lineups with crossovers, sedans, or minivans, the relatively niche sports car and GT market remains bereft of electric alternatives. So of all the big ones, it was Maserati that was among the first to put a foot in the door and present an electric GT car. It happened last year with the Polgora (Lightning in Italian) of the GranTurismo. Now it presents the Grunkabryo Pulgora, the electric version of the Grunkabryo. And while Mini had a cabriolet version of the electric Mini, Fiat has an open-top 500e - they're not quite sports cars and the Fiat isn't quite open-top. What about the MG Spiderster? Here we are talking about a roadster, that is, an open and smaller two-seater car.
Like the Fulgora version of the GranTurismo, it uses the same mechanical base. That means three electric motors, two in the back and one in the front. In principle, in terms of the engines themselves, each of them has a power of about 400 hp, that is, about 1,200 hp. But the battery is not able to provide enough power for such a power, but at most 818 hp and that too for a short period of time known as "MaxBoost" and the rest of the time the engines provide 751 hp.
In order to maintain the structure of its low sports car, Maserati uses a battery array arranged in the shape of the letter T, as opposed to the more common solution of a battery panel under the floors of the car. The battery itself has a capacity of 92.5 kWh, of which 83 kWh are available for propulsion. The declared range is 450 km and the car will support fast DC charging at a rate of up to 270 kW, this means charging from 20 to 80% in 18 minutes.
Official performance has not been released, but since it is mechanically identical to the closed version, it can be used as a basis. There it is about 2.7 seconds to 100 km/h and a maximum of 320 km/h. But it is possible that the added weight of the structural reinforcements in a car without a roof, may add some tenths and make some kilometers worse. Not an easy challenge when the opening point is 2,260 kg for the closed Polgora.
As an open GT car, the Polgora Granbrio uses assemblies that should provide it with the characteristics required of one of these - the suspension arrangement is double wishbones at the front and a multi-link suspension at the rear. It is likely that between them and the body there are, as in the GranTurismo, there are also air shock absorbers and brakes with discs with a diameter of 380 mm in front and 350 mm in the back for six or four piston calipers respectively.
price? This is not a tram that you buy to save money, and that starts already in the showroom. Expect to pay about NIS 1.2 million for it in Israel.