{"id":1237811,"date":"2025-03-07T10:08:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237811"},"modified":"2025-03-07T10:08:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:08:51","slug":"maserati-kills-electric-version-of-mc20-supercar-for-lack-of-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237811","title":{"rendered":"Maserati kills electric version of MC20 supercar for lack of demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Electric motors are, in so many ways, much better than internal combustion engines. They don&#8217;t waste most of the energy you put into them as heat and sound, they&#8217;re easy to control, and they make huge amounts of torque almost instantly. Having recently driven BMW&#8217;s 430i and i4 back to back over the course of two weeks, the electric version was easier in traffic and more responsive on a twisty road. Electric wins, then. Except at the very high end, it seems.<\/p>\n<p>Because even though electric motors can pack a punch, people paying big money for super- and hypercars are increasingly disinterested in those cars being electrified. So much so that Maserati has canceled the all-electric version of the MC20.<\/p>\n<p>The MC20 <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2020\/09\/maseratis-new-mc20-supercar-uses-f1-engine-efficiency-technology\/\">debuted in 2020<\/a>. No longer associated with Ferrari after that brand was spun out and IPO&#8217;d, the MC20 could offer a full carbon-fiber monocoque and an engine with very clever <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2016\/05\/turbulent-times-for-formula-1-engines-result-in-unprecedented-efficiency-gains\/\">F1-derived combustion technology<\/a>, undercutting its now-independent Italian competitor to the tune of more than $100,000 in the process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2025\/03\/maserati-kills-electric-version-of-mc20-supercar-for-lack-of-demand\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2025\/03\/maserati-kills-electric-version-of-mc20-supercar-for-lack-of-demand\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electric motors are, in so many ways, much better than internal combustion engines. They don&#8217;t waste most of the energy you put into them as heat and sound, they&#8217;re easy to control, and they make huge amounts of torque almost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237811\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}