Chase, the private label financing provider for McLaren, sat down with Nicolas Brown, president of McLaren Americas, to talk about the Artura. The Artura and its convertible model, the Artura Spider, are McLaren’s new high-performance hybrid supercars that give customers the best of all worlds — the look, feel, speed, and handling of a supercar, with the stealth and torque of plug-in electric hybrid technology. Learn more from Brown in our interview, which is accessible by both video (above) and text (below).
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Chase Auto: Tell us about McLaren’s first high-performance hybrid supercar.
Brown: At the core of McLaren's DNA is lightweight engineering. This lends itself really well to hybrid and battery technology. Batteries, as we know, add weight. Combining lightweight engineering with a battery means that you don't have the compromises that you might see in other vehicles. When we look at our nearest competitor, Artura is over 165 pounds lighter, which is quite significant. That's something that customers can really feel when driving the Artura and the agility that comes with that.
Chase Auto: What is the advantage of a relatively short electric range?
Brown: This is really advantageous because it gives our customers the choice. Our customers love the visceral experience that McLaren offers them. They love the sound, they love the vibrations. That's a core component to why they purchase our vehicles. With Artura and Artura Spider, what's great is that they can have that — but then they can also have the quiet, smooth driving when they wish. For us, it's really about not having a hybrid for the sake of having a hybrid, but having a hybrid from a performance perspective.
Chase Auto: Bigger picture, what’s McLaren’s overall EV strategy?
Brown: We have a four-pronged strategy when it comes to propulsion:
- Number one, we are going to continue to develop the internal combustion engine.
- Number two, we will continue to invest in high-performance hybrid technology, so we've rolled this out of course with Artura and Artura Spider. We will then also continue to develop this for our V8 engines and coupling them with hybrid components as well.
- Then we are currently investigating a battery electric vehicle and integrating that into our product portfolio moving forward.
- Then the fourth really revolves around looking at alternative options as well above and beyond that.
One of the key things for us is making sure that we are delivering supercars to our customers that they are really yearning for. It's looking at the options that we have available for creating an EV that still meets the needs of our customers from a performance perspectiveopens in same window.
Chase Auto: What’s the connection between EVs and McLaren’s world championship racing?
Brown: It's really been very exciting to see all of the successes that the racing team has had with Lando and Oscar being up on the first step of the podium. Racing really is at the core of our DNA. We have more racing engineers and designers working on our road cars than any other brand. We really are a race team that's building vehicles for the road. We really do see this transfer of innovation and technology from racing to our road cars.
As an example, McLaren was the first race team to integrate a fully carbon tub, and this of course is also in our road cars. When we look at hybridization, again, here we introduced this first into P1, then into Speedtail, then of course into Artura, and we will continue to build this out for all of the next generation vehicles as well.
In Summary: The McLaren Artura and Artura Spider are plug-in electric hybrids that combine the stealth and torque of EV technology with McLaren’s characteristic high-performance “supercar” capabilities. McLaren attributes its ability to offer customers the “best of both worlds” to its connection to racing, as the company uses many of the same engineers and designers on both its race cars and its road cars.
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The statements made in this video are accurate as of the date the video was recorded on 9/19/24.
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