While electric cars offer a lot of advantages in a lot of situations, they haven’t exactly proven their worth when it comes to prestige or, indeed, long-term desirability, at least not yet. Resale values on premium EVs are notoriously bad, and with the possible exception of the Rolls-Royce Spectre, nobody has quite cracked the nut on how to build one that could conceivably be considered an heirloom. 

Ferrari, however, is hoping to do just that with its first electric car, the Elettrica. Although the Prancing Horse marque hasn’t shown us what that car looks like just yet, we were recently given a detailed look beneath the skin at the upcoming EV’s chassis, battery, and motor components in a preview ahead of this year’s Ferrari Capital Markets Day in Maranello. The messaging? This is to be an EV like none before, even if much of the fundamental architecture is far from revolutionary.

The biggest part is the battery, a 122 kWh unit (roughly 20 percent larger than that in a Tesla Model S) that’s mostly situated low in the floor of the vehicle, with a double-stack of cells up under the rear seats. There are 210 battery cells in all, split up into 15 separate modules.

This setup actually runs counter to the current trend in EV battery design, a monolithic or “cell-to-pack” architecture that basically lumps all the cells together into one big module. The advantage there is higher energy density by simplifying the internal construction and keeping those cells close together.

Ferrari, though, wanted to prioritize maintenance and longevity of the battery pack. So, the pack itself can be removed from the body with just 20 fasteners, and from there, the individual modules can be removed and replaced as needed. Ferrari engineers talked about an EV that could “last forever,” even long after today’s battery chemistries are deemed obsolete.

For today, though, it’ll use a nickel manganese cobalt (NMC) battery pack big enough to deliver an estimated 330 miles of range on a charge. And, with an 800-volt architecture and 350 kW charging, it’ll take less than 20 minutes to add 150 miles of range.

The Elettrica will feature an all-wheel-drive configuration, thanks to not just two but four electric motors, one for each wheel, creating a far more advanced power delivery system than any Ferrari before. One motor per wheel means the car can maximize traction at every corner, offering seamless torque vectoring and stability control. That should make this Ferrari feel more nimble than its surely considerable weight would otherwise suggest, a factor also helped by the rear-wheel steering, which can independently turn the back wheels up to 2.15 degrees. 

Overall output from the combined four motors is over 1,000 hp, enough to allow the Elettrica to bolt from zero to 60 mph in 2.5 seconds on its way to a top speed of 193 mph. That would make this as quick as an SF90 Stradale, but Ferraris are of course about much more than driving in a straight line. Sound is a key part of the equation, and Ferrari has come up with a novel solution to the troublesome silence of a modern EV.

The marque has placed an extra accelerometer within the housing for the rear motor, a sensor to pick up the vibrations put off by that unit as it spins up to a whopping 25,500 rpm. A digital amplifier within the car then converts that signal to a sound that’s been tuned to create a harmony both evocative and also informative, changing in pitch to match wheelspin and motor speed, giving some real-time feedback to the driver.

Ferrari engineers likened it to the difference between an acoustic guitar, which amplifies its own sound, and an electric guitar, which relies on an external amp. In both situations, the instruments have been extensively refined to deliver a satisfying auditory experience. So, too, has the sound of the Elettrica been extensively tuned.

Sadly, nobody at Ferrari was willing to give us a listen just yet. Nor would anyone give us any idea of what the Elettrica will look like. It will have four doors, that much we know, and based on the shape and size of the chassis, it certainly won’t be a little sports car. But whether it’ll be more of a grand tourer or an upright SUV remains to be seen.

Those details are being held until later, a part of the highly anticipated model’s phased reveal that’ll happen through the early part of 2026. We’ll withhold judgment until then on the outright potential of Ferrari’s first EV, but with a promise to sound better, drive better, and last longer than any other EV on the road today, the Elettrica is already setting the bar high.