eli5: Can horsepower be added to each other or is there overlap? Example: If Ferrari says that an electric motor on each front wheel can produce 100hp each, and the combustion engine produces 750hp. Is it actually 950hp exactly? Or is there overlap or less hp etc?

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So, engine peak power will happen at a certain RPM – this goes for the gas engine and the electric motors.

The speed at which the electric motors give you peak power from may or may not line up with the RPMs the gas engine hits peak power at. So even without any other limitations it probably won’t match up perfectly.