Posted on 01/17/2018 12:01:11 PM PST by nickcarraway
Ferrari will make a battery-electric supercar to snatch some market share and attention away from Tesla, the dominant player in the luxury electric vehicle industry, CEO Sergio Marchionne told reporters at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
The Italian race car brand’s move towards electrification signals a shift not just for the company, but for Marchionne, who also heads Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). Marchionne also confirmed plans to bring a Ferrari SUV to market by late 2019 or 2020, Bloomberg reported. Reports of a Ferrari SUV first arose in August.
There are scant details on this impending electric Ferrari. The company will presumably want to produce an electric supercar before Tesla brings its new and improved Roadster to market in 2020.
More information on this electric Ferrari will likely come out when Marchionne unveils the company’s five-year plan, his last as CEO. Marchionne, one of the auto industry’s longest-serving CEOs, is set to retire in 2021. He’s held the top role since 2004.
The five-year plan is expected to set a higher annual deliveries target for Ferrari than its current self-imposed limit of 10,000 cars. Ferrari’s future will include hybrid cars, Marchionne told Bloomberg, “so going from there to an electric is easy.”
Marchionne’s comments—particularly those in an in-depth interview with Bloomberg ahead of the Detroit Auto Show—are in contrast with how FCA has operated in the past. The company has lagged behind other automakers scrambling to introduce electric vehicles and deploy commercial fleets of autonomous vehicles. FCA has focused more on its existing brands and partnerships, like its one with self-driving vehicle startup Waymo.
But Marchionne now believes that automakers have about 10 years to reinvent themselves to meet the changing consumer mindsets on how vehicles are purchased, driven, and powered. His impending five-year plan should address how FCA hopes to meet these new demands.
Ferrari Is Planning to Bring an Electric Supercar to Market
called the Teslazinni
there fixed it
300 mile range and 20 minute charge times aren’t that far from gasoline ICE vehicles.
With an EV, I almost never had to “go to the station”. Leaving home or work, battery was always topped off, full range available. Actually _waiting_ for a recharge, cumulative over 2 years I had it, was orders of magnitude less than time spent going to & refilling at a gas station.
Most drivers don’t need much more than 100 mile range per day - ergo, no “refueling” necessary outside of parking it and plugging it in.
For long trips, yes ICE + gas stations is superior. Most people don’t do that most of the time. For a family with 2+ cars, keep an EV as daily runabout and an SUV for long-haul big-cargo trips.
New Coke
NOOOOO. I have the 67’ and the 2014. This sucks.
Likewise is grilling a fresh-shot deer over an open wood fire.
Doesn’t mean most people want to eat that way on a regular basis.
Thank you. Now I can outrun the cops. :)
Boo, Hiss. I bought a paddock pass at the 1978 U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, got to stand directly behind a Ferrari F1 car as the mechanics were tuning it up. I was about 12 feet away and the 3.0 liter 12 cylinder sounded glorious, well worth losing a bit of hearing. No way I would buy an electric Ferrari.
On a side note, as good as the 12 cylinder Ferrari and Alfa engines sounded, the 12 cylinder Matra engine in the Ligier car was the best ever as far as pure, shrieking sound.
Yeah until your battery runs out, then the cop has the edge. Cop just has to keep up with you.
First, what is driving this pursuit of EVs by manufacturers is their collective belief that governments world-wide are beginning to ban combustion engine cars.
Second, I believe the EV phenomenon, like all liberal pipe dreams, is purely based on emotion, it feels good. The reality is far different. Recall that ethanol was supposed to be this great leap forward, but now has been proven to be even worse for the environment, but the enviro-nut sure felt good about doing “something” at the time, and Iowa corn farmers got rich.
What is lacking in all the emotions of EV is where is all the cobalt going to come from. So enviro-nuts have told us “peak-oil”. Newsflash: Cobalt is far more finite than petroleum. And what of all the environmental factors in building and disposing of massive amounts of batteries? How much will we be taxed for processing and disposing of car batteries? And what of the massive, massive upgrades that will be required of the electrical grid system? How will YOU like have a massive electrical power line running through your neighborhood or backyard? What of the electro-magnetic fields, not to mention the obscene eyesores they will create as they crisscross the landscape. What about the acquisition of new land and right-of-ways for these new power lines, substations and power plants? And who will pay for all this?
Yeah, EV as a niche is fine, I suppose, but on a mass scale? Crazy.
Enzo potrebbe tornare dalla tomba per questo sacrilegio!
Enzo, il fantasma amico?
My car takes 3 minutes to charge. If we were racing how far ahead of you would I get in 17 minutes?
I bet you don’t miss getting oil changes either.
Yet EV batteries keep getting cheaper.
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/12/11/batteries-keep-getting-cheaper/
Geez, we may all be back to putting baseball cards in our spokes again.
Vegas sets the odds of Drew68 being the victim of patricide at 4-to-1.
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