Customers are starting to take deliveries of the all-new Corvette E-Ray. As is tradition with all-new performance cars, someone has already strapped it to a dyno to see how much power it actually has. That someone is Paragon Performance with its all-wheel-drive dyno. Well, it turns out the E-Ray makes a hell of a lot more power (especially torque) than Chevrolet says it does.
Chevy says a stock Corvette E-Ray makes 655 horsepower and 592 lb-ft of torque from its mid-mounted 6.2-liter naturally aspirated LT2 V8 and front axle-mounted electric motor. Those are both healthy numbers, but Paragon Performance found out they may have been a bit of an understatement. Their C8 E-Ray apparently made 573 horsepower and 630 lb-ft of torque at the wheels. Now, that 573 number is right in line with what Chevy says if you consider a 15-ish percent drivetrain loss, but goddamn that torque number.
630 lb-ft of torque at the wheels. I know electric motors don’t have a ton of drivetrain loss, so let’s just say — for argument’s sake — the E-Ray is only losing like eight percent of its power between the motor and the ground. Even still, that engine setup is producing over 700 lb-ft of torque. That’s monstrous, and it really explains how this thing gets from 0-60 mph in 2.5 seconds.
These numbers are even more impressive when compared with the regular Corvette Stingray. I’ll let Paragon Performance break it down:
Compared to a C8 Corvette Stingray this is an increase of 135+ whp & 210+ lb ft of TQ, all thanks to the front motors powered by a 1.9 kWh battery, 1.1 kWh which is usable. As expected with an electric motor, the torque is instant and the power holds until the batteries are discharged rather quickly.
Apparently, Paragon Performance has decided this isn’t quite enough power, so it’s making a change. The company says this E-Ray is now on its way to Lingenfelter Performance Engineering in Michigan so it can be fitted by with TVS2650 supercharger. This thing is going to be a monster. We’ll definitely be following along with this build.