The prancing horse just went electric and it brought Jony Ive along for the ride.
The gaming and tech world knows Jony Ive as the man who made the iPhone feel like it came from another dimension. Now he’s done it again, except this time, the product has four wheels, 1,000+ horsepower, and a price tag that makes a top-tier gaming PC setup look like pocket change.
Meet the Ferrari Luce. Europe’s most valuable automaker just dropped its first-ever electric vehicle, and it’s nothing like what anyone expected.
What’s in the Name? Everything.
“Luce”, Italian for “light”, is more than a name. It is a vision: electrification as a means, not an end; a new era where design, engineering and imagination converge into something that did not exist before.
Ferrari unveiled the Luce on May 25, 2026, in the symbolic setting of the Vela di Calatrava in Rome, the very city where Ferrari won its first race in 1947. That’s the kind of cinematic lore that would hit hard in any open-world game cutscene.
The Jony Ive Effect
If you’ve ever held an iPhone and thought “this feels like it was designed by someone who actually cares,” you already understand what LoveFrom brings to the table.
LoveFrom, the creative collective founded by Sir Jony Ive and Marc Newson, collaborated with Ferrari for five years on every dimension of the car’s design, exterior, interior, interface, all of it unified under one language.
The result? An interior that defies the convention that “electric cars must be dominated by large touchscreens.” Instead, the design team prioritised physical controls, inspired by classic sports cars and Formula One single-seaters. While Tesla keeps going bigger on screens, Ferrari went the opposite direction — and it looks stunning for it.
The steering wheel is the centerpiece: a three-spoke design machined from recycled aluminum with an anodised finish, glass elements, leather grips, the Manettino, torque-control paddles, and a binnacle that moves in tandem with the wheel. It’s like a piece of product design sitting inside a 1,000-horsepower machine.
And yes, the glass key fob changes colour via an E Ink display, fading from yellow to black when docked in the centre console, while the gear selector and control panel light up to signal the car is ready to drive. That’s the kind of tactile, theatrical detail the FreedomX community lives for.
The Specs
- Four electric motors — one per wheel — producing a combined 1,036 hp
- 0–60 mph in under 2.5 seconds, top speed of 193 mph
- 122 kWh battery with around 329 miles of range
- 350 kW fast-charging: 10% to 80% in roughly 18 minutes
- Handles like a car 400 kg lighter, thanks to torque vectoring and a centre of gravity 95 mm lower than the Purosangue
And because Ferrari knows that silence kills the vibe, the car employs an accelerometer system that captures vibrations from the electric motors and amplifies what Ferrari considers more musical sounds, audible both inside and outside the vehicle. Custom engineered audio. In a car.
The Price of the Future: $640,000
Pricing starts at €550,000 ($640,000) in Europe, with production beginning in late 2026 and a U.S. launch in Q2 2027.
At that price, the Luce sits above the Porsche Taycan Turbo S, the Lucid Air Sapphire, and even the Rolls-Royce Spectre — claiming the title of the world’s most expensive production EV. Allocation is limited to a few hundred units a year, and existing Ferrari clients get first dibs.
Disruption Is Ferrari’s New Game
The luxury EV market is rough right now. Rival Lamborghini cancelled its EV due to lack of demand, while Porsche’s Taycan and Lucid’s Air have been struggling. Ferrari is betting against the tide and if any brand has the cultural cache to pull it off, it’s the prancing horse.
CEO Benedetto Vigna put it plainly: “It’s the result of five years of work.” Ferrari believes younger buyers raised on technology and AI may care less about cylinders and more about experience.
Sound familiar? That’s the same generation building communities on platforms like FreedomX, people who grew up valuing immersion, craft, and the feeling that the tech they use actually means something.
Sources
- Ferrari Official Luce Page — https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/auto/ferrari-luce
- Ferrari Press Release (Rome Unveil) — https://www.ferrari.com/en-US/corporate/articles/ferrari-luce-a-new-chapter-for-the-maranello-marque
- Ferrari Interior & Name Reveal — https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/corporate/articles/ferrari-luce-revealing-interior-interface-design-and-the-name
- Ferrari Magazine Interior Deep Dive — https://www.ferrari.com/en-EN/magazine/articles/ferrari-luce-interior-design
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- GearMusk — https://gearmusk.com/2026/05/26/ferrari-luce-ev/
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_Luce
