Wow , Who would ever thought Ferrary would make a full electric Ferrari ? as long as it has the sound of a F1 you would be happy with the the car plus cheap service and running costs, who makes Ferrari batteries ? wouldn't want a big fat heavy low energy battery in a Ferrari would you , they might need a silicon anode ?
Ferrari opens battery lab in northern Italy as it gears up to produce its first fully electric supercar amidst heated EV competition with BYD and Lamborghini
2025 Ferrari EV to be “a true Ferrari”
Ferrari says its first battery-electric model will live up to the Prancing Horse badge, from the way it goes to the noise it makes Ferrari says its first EV will be “a true Ferrari” – including its sound and performance – when it’s revealed next year.
Despite what is looming as the biggest change ever for the 77-year-old Italian car-maker, the company is adamant that a Ferrari powered by the near-silence of electricity will offer all the driving thrills and aural excitement of one fed with premium unleaded.
“The new electric Ferrari vehicle is going to be a true Ferrari,” said Ferrari’s global marketing director Emanuele Carando in a recent interview with Australian journalists.
“Yes, it will have sound,” said Carando. “You will see – well, you will hear,” he added when quizzed on how the sound would be produced, saying it would be “authentic”.
Whereas some brands are perfectly suited to switching to electricity – Rolls-Royce being the most obvious, with near-silence and oodles of torque being hallmarks of the British luxury brand since its inception – for Ferrari there are larger challenges, including noise.
Ferrari nominates the sound of its cars as one of five brand pillars that help create its all-important driving thrills – the others are longitudinal acceleration, lateral acceleration, braking and gear shifting – and that’s something that has no doubt kept the innovative Maranello engineers busy (although gear shifting could be another challenge….
While Ferrari’s first hybrid was the 2013 LaFerrari limited-edition hypercar, followed by the 2019 SF90 hypercar and the new V6-powered 296 supercar, one thing that won’t be an issue is making an all-electric Ferrari go quickly.
Already we’re seeing huge leaps in EV performance from brands that have previously relied only on fossil fuels.
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