After its unveil in 2017, last June Mercedes-AMG revealed the production version of the AMG One. This long period of time has been necessary not much for the development of the car itself, which was already in its definitive form back in 2017, but to make road-legal and 'daily' usable the complex F1-derived powertrain.
The ICE is a modified Mercedes-Benz PU106 Hybrid engine, a 1.6-litre turbocharged 90-degree V6 engine used in the 2014-2016 Mercedes-AMG F1 Formula One cars (W05, W06, W07). Modifications were necessary to be used on the roads, both in terms of emissions (lowering the RPM's idle), durability (reducing max rev limit) and practicality (for example the use of normal petrol and not the one used by teams on their actual F1s). The little V6 produces 574 hp at 9,000 rpm.
The ICE work in conjunction with four electric motors. Like on modern F1 cars it has a MGU-K and a MGU-H. The MGU-K serves to generate electricity during braking, while the MGU-H serves to eliminate turbocharger lag, improve throttle response by keeping the turbine spinning at high speeds and to recover wasted energy from the exhaust. The final two electric motors drive the front wheels to allow for an all-wheel drive drivetrain, and the sum of these four electric motors will contribute 360 kW (483 hp) effective power to the total power output figure of the AMG One.
Being a plug-in hybrid car, the One can travel even a few kilometers in zero emissions EV mode.
The transmission is a 7-speed single-clutch automated manual transmission. The use of a single-clutch over a dual-clutch transmission was due to AMG's engineers wanting to keep the car light and due to concerns over the dual-clutch's ability to handle the high-revving V6. The body is made entirely of carbon fibre, resulting in a final kerb weight of 1,695 kg.
The AMG One has six different drive modes:
- "Race Safe" mode, which features a hybrid driving mode with all-electric start up. The ICE will switch on only when a higher power is required.
- "Race" mode, hybrid driving mode with a special charging strategy. The combustion engine is always running and can charge the high-voltage battery more, so that full electrical power is always available.
- "EV" mode, all-electric driving.
- "Race Plus" mode, which features active aerodynamics, front diffuser flaps folds up to shape, rear wing is fully extended, front fenders vents opens up, lowers the car by 37 mm in front and 30 mm in rear, chassis tuning and special performance management.
- "Strat 2" mode, which features all "Race Plus" changes, additionally with firmer suspension tuning and full electric power from all electric motors.
- "Individual" mode allows the driver to set the car settings as per their personal preferences.
In "Race Plus" and "Strat 2" modes, the total vehicle downforce increases by up to five times when compared to other drive modes. Also, the car features Formula One's Drag Reduction System (DRS), reducing the vehicle's overall downforce by 20 percent from lowering the rear wing flaps and closing the front louvers to increase straight line speed. DRS can be turned off manually or automatically from applying brakes.
Watch it in action on Goodwood's hillclimb course during the 2022 Festival of Speed!
0:00 Warm up & paddock scenes
1:44 Activating 'Race Plus Mode'
1:55 In action on the hillclimb
4:26 Back to the paddock
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