Zenvo Says Smaller Hypercar Coming, However No EVs

The brand new Zenvo Aurora is an absolute monster. Its quad-turbocharged 6.6-liter V12 engine with electrical help provides it as much as 1,850 horsepower and a prime velocity of 280 miles per hour. Not solely that, however the brand new carbon fiber monocoque chassis helps make the Aurora the lightest automotive the Danish automaker has ever constructed with a claimed dry weight of three,197 kilos.

However the Aurora is barely the first step in what Zenvo hopes will probably be a lineage of hypercars primarily based on its new carbon monocoque setup. Talking with Head of Zenvo Design Christian Brandt – who has been with the corporate because the starting – he confirms the corporate is already in improvement of a smaller, extra reasonably priced hypercar (comparatively talking) that makes use of most of the identical parts that make up the Aurora.

“We will use this monocoque for different tasks,” says Brandt, “the following product down the road is what we name a junior hypercar, so it will likely be smaller, extra compact, lower cost level. [The Aurora] is $3 million, that one might be going to be $1.8 or $2.0 million.”

It’s not merely the monocoque chassis that the corporate will translate to smaller automobiles both, however the modularity of the brand new 90-degree “hot-V” engine makes it a chief candidate to be used in different Zenvo automobiles.

“The engine can also be designed with modularity in thoughts, so we will really chop cylinders off – we will do a V8, we will do a V6,” says Brandt. “There are 4 turbos, they’re principally feeding three cylinders every, so for those who reduce it down and simply have two turbos and 6 cylinders.”

One factor that we’re unlikely to see from Zenvo, although, is an electrical hypercar. Despite the fact that the Aurora does have an EV drive mode with round 22 miles (35 kilometers) of vary, Brandt is adamant that Zenvo prospects aren’t fascinated with a pure electrical hypercar a la rivals just like the Rimac Nevera and the Pininfarina Battista.

“We all know our purchasers – we’ve got talked to our purchasers within the course of, which can also be why we’ve got the V12. No person wished the V6 or the V8 and for positive not electrical. They don’t need electrical.”

Nicely-heeled patrons fascinated with a brand new Zenvo Aurora should wait at the least till 2026 when the hypercar goes into manufacturing. The corporate will construct 50 examples of the road-focused Tur trim and 50 examples of the track-capable Agil mannequin, with a beginning value of round $2.8 million within the US (€2.6 million).