The first-ever Corvette hybrid gets an electric motor driving each front wheel, meaning it's also the first AWD Corvette.
Corvettes have long been regarded as the most daily-drivable of high-performance sports cars, so adding a hybrid all-wheel-drive variant with price and performance in between the base Z51 and Z06 models extends its general usability by improving traction in foul weather—and when trying to route an extra 100-plus horsepower to the ground.Plug-in hybridization was planned from the start, with Ultium pouch battery-module-shaped space reserved in the C8's aluminum center tunnel.
We're not entirely convinced this first hybrid model will be a plug-in, largely because we can't find any charging-port doors in spy shots of the car. That could also add a lot more weight and makes more sense to be offset by the 5.5-liter twin-turbo flat-plane V-8 in the considerably wilder Zora model. We fully expect the 2023 Corvette hybrid to retain its venerable 6.2-liter V-8, with the inboard motors adding at least 50 hp each for a total of 600-plus.
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