Zenvo Aurora to run with quad-turbo 6.6-liter V12 hybrid powertrain

This yr’s version of The Quail: A Motorsports Gathering goes to be a type of royal working. It is the twentieth anniversary of the occasion, the twenty fifth anniversary of the Quail Rally, and two-wheelers get their thirteenth showcase. The present plans 4 featured courses and 20 debuts, a type of reveals the Zenvo Aurora. The Danish hypercar maker closed its TS mannequin chapter final yr with a TSR-GT {that a} driver ran as much as 263 miles per hour. As with each Zenvo as much as that time, motivation for that pace run got here from a GM-based LS-series V8 bearing some quantity of each turbocharging and supercharging. The Aurora writes a minimum of two new chapters for the corporate, introducing Zenvo’s first in-house engine as properly — and never simply any engine, a quad-turbocharged 6.6-liter V12.

These are bigger specs than Zenvo introduced earlier this yr when it stated the Aurora would run with a twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter V12. The Danes are working with the German boffins at Mahle Powertrain on the unit, appears one of many events realized they’d much more potential of their design.

Named Mjoner, the title of Thor’s hammer, the engine’s coronary heart is a brand new aluminum block in a modular design so Zenvo can break off V8 and V6 mills to energy Aurora offshoots. The heads cover Mahle’s Jet Ignition tech. This is identical pre-chamber ignition design Maserati makes use of within the twin-turbo 3.0-liter Nettuno V6; the Italians additionally labored with Mahle after watching sister model Ferrari use Jet Ignition within the Ferrari F1 automobiles. The combination is not about bragging, it is for emissions. The approaching Euro 7 laws place limits on an engine’s fuel-use trickery, Jet Ignition retains Mjolner inside regulation for the European and U.S. markets. Compatibility with artificial fuels lends one other measure of future-proofing — for the close to future, a minimum of.     

Inside combustion horsepower involves 1,232 (1,250 ps) at 8,000 rpm on the best way to a 9,800-rpm redline, main Zenvo to say this would be the strongest road-legal V12 on this planet. Electrical help will add one other 592 hp (600 ps), taking issues to 1,824 hp. The corporate says the hybrid unit’s being tuned for drivability and value. We all know the mixed sources will grant the Aurora all-wheel drive. It is not clear which motor powers which axle, however our guess is that there will likely be a brief electric-only vary to fulfill stricter city calls for in Europe.

All-carbon chassis development means a carbon tub and entrance and rear subframes. There are going to be two trims, Tur the slicker GT variant able to cross Germany at greater than 249 miles per hour, Agil the higher-drag and higher-aero observe variant. Zenvo plans to make not more than 100 automobiles in whole, break up between the 2 trims. We’ll discover out what they appear to be on August 18 throughout Monterey Automotive Week.