We’ve recognized for some time that the Aston Martin Valkyrie will have a hybrid powertrain. Aston Martin has been relatively open approximately the reality that the engine may be a 6. Five-liter V-12 that makes a fair 1,000 hp at 10,500 rpm and redlines at eleven,100 rpm. But now, the British automaker introduced that the hybrid gadget will add some other one hundred sixty hp and 207 lb-toes of torque, bringing the gadget total to at least one,160 hp and 664 lb-ft.
While Aston Martin partnered with Cosworth to broaden the engine, the electrical motor comes from an organization known as Integral Powertrain Ltd. As for the battery percent, that got here from Rimac, a Croatian supercar employer. Red Bull Advanced Technologies was then tasked with the use of its Formula 1 enjoy to ensure the engine, motor, and battery gadget all labored collectively.
The Red Bull group is also part of the purpose the engine and transmission are a part of the automobile shape. By placing mounting points for the rear suspension to the transmission, Aston says it turned into able to enhance structural stress and decrease weight.
“Aston Martin Valkyrie is set to be the ultimate hypercar in the car world and these performance figures underline that assertion. Red Bull Advanced Technologies, Cosworth, Rimac and Integral Powertrain Ltd. Have been brilliant partners within the improvement of this powertrain, ensuring that we’ve already created a hybrid machine this is emissions-compliant and geared up to start fitting to our first bodily prototypes,” said David King, Aston Martin‘s head of special vehicle operations, in a statement.
