Electric supercar SLS AMG Electric Drive
Despite the introduction of the hybrid supercar of recent times, the German automaker has no intention of jumping into this war.
AMG division of Mercedes-Benz said that there will be no development of hybrid drive systems and launched a super-expensive supercar (hypercar) to compete with a range of new hybrid supercar debuted today as McLaren P1, LaFerrari Ferrari or Porsche's upcoming 918. In an interview with CarAdvice, specialized site on Australia's car, the AMG Development Manager said, producing a hypercar is not yet included in the product portfolio of the company. The reason given is simply because AMG does not have a reputation in the hypercar segment, so spending money and time researching this vehicle can be an unnecessary waste of Mercedes.Tobias Moers, Development Director of AMG admit, the current Ferrari is a name different than the segment hypercar.Hien at AMG, AMG is focused on developing engines 4-cylinder, 2.0-liter with the power of 360 horsepower, will be used on the A45 AMG models. However, this engine will not develop the same hybrid drive system in the future. Besides, Moers also stressed that AMG will attempt to improve the performance of its engines, cars have created a reasonable fuel consumption by reducing vehicle weight. In the coming years, these technologies reduce vehicle weight is applied on the sample label SLS Black Series will be more widely used in the product is cheaper.
