Headline, April 22 2025/ TECH : ''' THIS CORVETTE THUS '''

TECH : 

''' THIS CORVETTE THUS '''

! A HYBRID ON HYPERDRIVE ! : EFFICIENCY isn't the objective. Chevrolet's Corvette ZRIX is built for power and proves electricity can be fun.

SPORTING a zero-to-60 sprint in 1.7 seconds, and an Indy-worthy 233 m.p.h. peak, Chevrolet's Corvette ZRIX is silly, even surreal.

Yet this hybrid hypercar, packing 1,250 horsepower, also makes sense, as driving enthusiasts have expressed seeming ambivalence toward fully electric sports cars.

In familiar Corvette fashion, the ZRIX is a China-level deal versus any rival in its rarefied echelon, even as its $207,000 starting price makes it history’s most expensive production Chevrolet.

It becomes the tech showpiece in a Corvette lineup that starts from $72, 495, less than half the price of a Porsche 911 S.

This Corvette also demonstrates how electricity is revolutionizing the topranks of performance : It could depart from a Manhattan stoplight at 39th street and nip 160 m.p.h [ 260 kilometers per hour ] by 44th Street, a blistering quarter-mile.

Theoretically of course.

Driving the ZRIX at California's Sonoma Raceway feels like hitching a ride on the Large Hadron Collider, fast enough to rearrange my subatomic particles.

In a good way.

When I segue to roads in the Napa Valley, the ' Vette's roaring, twin-turbocharged 1,064 horsepower V-8 threatens to tear sauvignon and chardonnay vines from the roadside roots.

Electrified front wheels, the car's secret sauce, tack on 188 horses more to the all-wheel drive ZRIX.

The hand-built, titanium-girded racing engine, autographed by a single master technician,  is displayed under a  transparent pane like a Louvre jewel ripe for plucking.

[ A shout-out to Jeff Smith, my signatory from the Corvette factory in Bowling Green, Ky.]

The vented panel pays homage to the classic split-window Sting Ray of 1963. You know, back when 250 horsepower was a lot.

It all sounds intimidating. Yet the ZRIX still feels like a familiar, approachable Corvette. This beat will  happily burble in all-day comfort, with room for luggage or two sets of golf clubs.

Unlike a Toyota Prius, its hybrid battery isn't about efficiency. It's designed like a kinetic energy sponge, quckly soaking up regenerative brake energy and wringing it back out - akin to Formula 1 racers, which this season draw a record 50% of power from electricity.

The battery fits entirely in the center console, allowing the Corvette to hug the ground like no conventional EV. It never dipped below 50% full in my Napa test drive, no matter how hard I tried.

Press a '' Charge + '' button, and ZRIX refills that battery over a few miles of cruising. No plug required.

There's even an F1-style '' push-to-pass '' button on the steering wheel. It summons every joule and kilowatt of thrust - perfect for underdog encounters with haughty Ferrari owners.

I'd already tested the non-hybrid, 1,064-horsepower ZR1 version, and it is brilliant, but the ZRIX has a palpable edge in traction, especially dashing from corners.

A clever Performance Traction Management system offers video-game like settings to accommodate all skill levels. Modes such as ''Wet,'' '' Sport,'' '' Race '' and '' PTM Pro '' progressively dial back stability and traction controls that act as electronic guardian angels for pilots.

This Corvette shows beyond any doubt how electricity is changing the top ranks of performance vehicles.

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