A patent application from Ferrari is so full of wild ideas that it is difficult to fully understand. But the engine is a supercharged V6.
Ferrari has recently said that the brand refuses to ever abandon the internal combustion engine. And so creative thinking must be done at the factory in Maranello.
Because as it looks now, the EU will ban all new cars with the internal combustion engine in 2035. That is, if these cannot run on synthetic fuel.
But Ferrari may already be several steps ahead of the EU ban. In any case, a new patent application reveals that the Italians are working on a V6 engine with a compressor. An engine that burns hydrogen.
That's what Motor1 writes.
But the oddities don't stop there. Because according to the drawings that Ferrari has sent to the European Patent Office in Munich, the engine is turned upside down.
Yes, that means the cylinder head is just above the road. The idea behind it all is that Ferrari can place the axles, differential and gearbox a bit higher that way.
Conversely, it enables a more aggressive rear diffuser. Which in itself opens up more and better possibilities aerodynamically.
In all, Ferrari describes in the documents an unloading of a supercharged V6 engine that burns hydrogen and drives a four-wheel drive in a sports car.
In fairness, it must be said that Ferrari are not the first to consider how to burn hydrogen. Both Toyota and BMW do the same. Read more about it here !
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