Specialty Vehicle Engineering has unveiled a heavily modified Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray under its Yenko banner, and the numbers are hard to believe for a car that started life as a hybrid sports coupe: a claimed 1,564 horsepower, enough to surpass a Bugatti Chiron. The build takes the hybrid Corvette E-Ray as its starting point and pushes its performance dramatically further through extensive engine and drivetrain work.
A Name With History Behind It
SVE, known for reworking General Motors vehicles into limited-production, high-performance specials, applied the Yenko name to this build as a tribute to Don Yenko, the Chevrolet dealer who made his name modifying Camaros, Chevelles, and Novas with 427-cubic-inch V8 engines decades ago. The modern Yenko lineup keeps that tradition alive with upgraded Chevrolet muscle cars and trucks, and this E-Ray build represents SVE pushing that formula onto GM’s current hybrid platform.
What’s Actually Under the Skin
For this build, SVE focused on extracting maximum output from the E-Ray’s 6.2-liter V8 while keeping its hybrid system fully intact rather than stripping it out. According to details released about the build, the V8 received forged aluminum pistons, high-strength head and main studs, a custom camshaft, a revised intake manifold, and forged H-beam connecting rods, essentially a full internal rebuild designed to handle serious boost. Engineers also fitted a pair of 58 mm ceramic ball-bearing, water-cooled turbochargers. Combined with the Corvette E-Ray’s existing electric motor, that upgraded internal hardware and forced induction setup is what adds up to the 1,564-horsepower total.
Handling the Power
To keep that much power manageable, SVE also upgraded the Corvette’s eight-speed dual-clutch transmission rather than leaving it stock behind a heavily boosted engine. Official acceleration and quarter-mile figures haven’t been released yet, but with output that tops many established hypercars on paper, expectations for straight-line performance are understandably high.
SVE hasn’t announced full production numbers or final performance data for the Yenko Corvette E-Ray. As it stands, though, it’s one of the most powerful iterations of the Corvette platform built to date, shoving a hybrid sports car firmly into hypercar-level output territory.