Mercedes-AMG Project One – some details

30 May 2017

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Mercedes-AMG Project One – hybrid hypercar, which is created by the firm in honor of the 50th anniversary of the court division AMG. According to the statements of the representatives of the company, the car is based on the units of Formula 1. During the official opening of the race "24 hours nürburgring", revealed the technical details of Project One. Interestingly, the car has been certified as a road for all countries of the world except China.

The power plant Project One will be borrowed from car 2015 year's W06 Hybrid. Engine - 1.6-litre petrol with centrifugal blower and closing area of 13500 R/min. will Agree, a lot even for hypercar. The volume of the internal combustion engine is small, but not means that there is a lack in power. In addition, for Project One motor is slightly modernized, increasing the strength of the crankshaft, pistons and changing the settings of the electronics.

It should be understood that the power unit is not same as a formula car. Imagine even hypercar, but still the road, with the idle speed is 4000 rpm And because this mode works the "heart" of the car. Yeah and just to remove the engine from  the"formula" and put Project One will work – have too often to replace it, but it is very expensive.

According to representatives from Mercedes-AMG, they were able to raise the efficiency of the engine to 43%. Thanks, in particular, constantly running supercharger with a drive motor, with a capacity of as much as 107 HP On the crankshaft of the motor, installed another motor with a power output of 161 L.S. This unit "helps" the engine with acceleration enters in the generator mode when the regenerative braking.

The main difference between Mercedes-AMG Project One from a Formula 1 car is two electric motors propelling the wheels of the front axle, 160 HP Promise that the car solely on electric can travel up to 22 km. Although anyone of the owners of one of the unique hypercar will need this mode is unclear.

The engine Project One will work with 8-step "robot" with one clutch. It is expected that the total capacity of all propulsion is 1000 HP At the rumors, the weight of the car should be about 1,300 kg in recalculation it turns out that hypercar huge power. We can only guess about what the speaker will have a car what is the maximum speed limit.

Scheme for the construction of the chassis Mercedes-AMG Project One can be called the cap, since the power plant is part of the supporting structure of the body. To the crankcases of internal combustion engines and powertrain connected aluminum wishbone rear suspension, and the power plant is integrated into the carbon fiber based body. It is these "tricks" allow you to get extremely tough design and incredible handling in a relatively small mass.

Representatives of Mercedes-AMG said that the life of the engine Project One is limited to 50,000 km for a unique model, it's almost infinity. After all, will be released only 275 copies of Mercedes-AMG Project One that will go private collections to occupy their places of honor in the"garage of dreams".

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