Inside the €36.8M Sale of Ferrari’s First Electric Supercar

Monterey's auction room fell quiet the instant the hammer came down. Then a wave of disbelief. A single Ferrari, the marque's first fully electric production car, fetched an eye-popping €36.8 million at RM Sotheby's during Monterey Car Week.

Why collectors rewrote the rulebook

Nobody saw this level of fever coming. Experts had penciled in a far more modest outcome, estimating the unique car's value between roughly €1.01 million and €1.47 million. Even Ferrari's future standard model, announced with a base price of €589,000, looked conservative by comparison.

The victorious lot is the Luce Chassis Zero — the first customer-bound electric Ferrari and a Tailor Made commission. Whoever put up the winning bid bought more than hardware. They bought a piece of history, wrapped in bespoke paint and one-off details that set collectors' hearts racing.

Who owns it now? Officially, we still don't know. Rumors are doing the heavy lifting: high-profile names from the world of tech and collecting are in the mix. David Lee, the prominent Ferrari collector and jeweler whose most expensive car is a 1962 250 GTO he acquired for about €35.4 million in January 2026, is a leading suspect. Observers have also pointed to the usual roster of deep-pocketed enthusiasts in Silicon Valley and beyond.

What makes this Luce Chassis Zero different from the off-the-shelf car is the Tailor Made treatment. The body wears a semi-matte pearl white that shifts to greens and purples depending on light angle. Inside, Swiss metallic leather covers the cabin and every glossy black trim piece you would normally expect has been reinterpreted in an exclusive grey. The result is quietly alien. It feels personal. It looks impossible to replicate.

Underneath the sculpture is brutal performance. Two electric motors produce about 1,050 horsepower and 990 newton meters of torque. Acceleration rips from 0 to 100 km/h in 2.4 seconds. Top speed is listed at 310 km/h. A 122 kWh battery is rated for roughly 530 km on the WLTP cycle, and a fast charge from 10 to 80 percent takes just 23 minutes.

The rolling stock is equally theatrical: 23 and 24-inch wheels front and rear, shod with Michelin Pilot Sport 5 tires, giving the car a stance as aggressive as its numbers.

All proceeds from the sale will be donated to the Ferrari Foundation to support education programs.

Delivery to the new owner is slated for the first quarter of 2027. By then, the automotive world will be watching to see whether this single sale was a rare, headline-grabbing outlier or an early sign that collectible tastes are shifting toward electrified exotica.

One thing is clear: collectors just discovered a new category worth thinking about. And they paid accordingly.