My new favorite car. There's plenty of YouTube videos displaying what it can do.
Showing the gas/elec engines and transmission layout:
"The 177-hp electric motor has many roles. Aside from delivering torque to the wheels, it starts the V-8, charges both the high voltage (535-volt, 4.7-kWh hybrid battery), and via a DC-DC convertor, acts as an alternator by managing the standard 12-volt system. This setup simplifies the engine auxiliary layout. In fact, the engine lacks any belt-driven auxiliary altogether. Aside from the motor, there is an A/C compressor, but it is driven off the electric motor’s gearbox."
Showing what's under its skin:
"To transform the 12C’s carbon-fiber tub into the P1’s MonoCage, McLaren utilizes a process it calls co-curing. It combines resin transfer molding and an autoclave. The lower half of the MonoCage is, for all intents and purposes, the same as the tub found in the 12C, although it’s about 11 pounds lighter. Then the roof is laid up on the tub and the top half is cured in an autoclave. The end product weighs less than 200 pounds. And, while we’re on the topic of carbon fiber, the front clamshell weighs about eight pounds and the rear clam, that stands six feet tall, is about 15 pounds. McLaren claims the P1 will come in at around 3100 pounds, but we suspect the actual curb weight will be closer to 3300 when she’s full of fluids."
Pretty awesome that a car with the added electric motor still only weighs ~3,000-lbs (dry) and I believe the entire monocoque weighs under 200-lbs. it does 0-60 in roughly 2.8 seconds and the 1/4 mile in 9.8 at ~155mph.
Showing the gas/elec engines and transmission layout:
"The 177-hp electric motor has many roles. Aside from delivering torque to the wheels, it starts the V-8, charges both the high voltage (535-volt, 4.7-kWh hybrid battery), and via a DC-DC convertor, acts as an alternator by managing the standard 12-volt system. This setup simplifies the engine auxiliary layout. In fact, the engine lacks any belt-driven auxiliary altogether. Aside from the motor, there is an A/C compressor, but it is driven off the electric motor’s gearbox."
Showing what's under its skin:
"To transform the 12C’s carbon-fiber tub into the P1’s MonoCage, McLaren utilizes a process it calls co-curing. It combines resin transfer molding and an autoclave. The lower half of the MonoCage is, for all intents and purposes, the same as the tub found in the 12C, although it’s about 11 pounds lighter. Then the roof is laid up on the tub and the top half is cured in an autoclave. The end product weighs less than 200 pounds. And, while we’re on the topic of carbon fiber, the front clamshell weighs about eight pounds and the rear clam, that stands six feet tall, is about 15 pounds. McLaren claims the P1 will come in at around 3100 pounds, but we suspect the actual curb weight will be closer to 3300 when she’s full of fluids."
Pretty awesome that a car with the added electric motor still only weighs ~3,000-lbs (dry) and I believe the entire monocoque weighs under 200-lbs. it does 0-60 in roughly 2.8 seconds and the 1/4 mile in 9.8 at ~155mph.
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