Mercedes-AMG ONE Hypercar deliveries to start in 2021

To celebrate the success of AMG in Formula 1, Mercedes-AMG unveiled the Project ONE hypercar back in 2017, which was said to share the hybrid V-6 engine from the 2017 F1 championship-winning car. Earlier, the hypercar was scheduled to begin deliveries in 2019, but since it was hard to adapt the F1 engine for road-legal use, the delivery year was postponed. 

But now at the Los Angeles Auto Show, AMG’s global head of product management and sales, Michael Knöller said, "When you make F1 technology street legal you have to go through a journey with the customers. We had some challenges, but now we've reached a tipping point,” with deliveries of the ONE hypercar are set to begin in 2021.

Some of the challenging points that the team had to work include race engine idle state, noise regulations and emissions test. While the race engine idles at 5,000 rpm, the number needs to be reduced to 3,800 rpm, which isn’t a cakewalk, as told by Tobias Moers, AMG head, last year. The car requires to be stable at 12,000 rpm for it to comply with global emissions-test norms. Also, the hypercar needs to be noise-controlled which is again a major challenge because currently, it features a race engine under the flesh.

Mercedes-AMG ONE Hypercar features a kinetic-energy harvesting electric motor (two deployed at the front axle for torque-vectoring all-wheel drive), liquid-cooled batteries (taken from the 2017 W08 EQ Power+) and a turbocharger. The ONE will be able to pump out a max power of more than 1000 hp.

Only 275 models of the AMG ONE hypercar will be manufactured. The company is likely to price it around 2.275 million euros. 

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