► First EV announced at shareholders’ meeting
► Ferrari maps out its electrification strategy
► It’s already begun with the SF90 hypercar
Maranello is poised to unveil its first electric car later this year, and we’ve now got a look at where it’ll be made. Recently inaugurated with the Italian President Sergio Mattarella in attendance, this is the new e-building that will produce Maranello’s ICE cars, hybrids and EVs.
‘We are honoured to have President Mattarella with us for the inauguration of the e-building, a plant that combines the centrality of the people in the workplace with respect for the environment,’ said Ferrari’s President, John Elkann. ‘Investing in our territory is essential to prepare ourselves for Ferrari’s future with confidence and confirms our commitment to Italian excellence and to our country.’
What’s else?
In 2024 Maranello is keen to push ‘technological neutrality,’ which is Ferrari-speak for keeping all powertrain technologies under one roof. In addition to allowing for greater efficiency and synergies between each department, it has great optics too: it hammers home the fact that all Ferrari products have the same origin and the same ‘signature driving excitement,’ as Maranello puts it.
With that in mind, Maranello will be building the key ingredients of its EV well-and-truly in house; high-voltage batteries, electric motors and axles will be made within the new e-Plant.
It looks modern
As you’d expect from 2024, the e-building has a focus on sustainability and is partly powered by 3000 roof-mounted solar panels that product 1.3MW in total. Towards the end of the year, the rest will be made up from internal and external sources, the latter where sustainable energy can be guaranteed.
What’s more, 60% of the energy used for testing components will be recovered in and redirected to applications elsewhere.
Where is it?
Maranello’s new plant is sits north of the Ferrari campus and its construction required the redevelopment of more than 100,000 square metres and a redesign of the road infrastructure. Its opaline glazing, clear glass and lightning certainly makes it look the part – now we just need to see what it’ll produce.
Ferrari goes electric
Technically, the brand started its electrification path with the wild SF90 Stradale, a plug-in hybrid hypercar that can run on e-power for a limited amount of time. But Ferrari has bigger goals.
‘We are very excited about our first all-electric Ferrari that we plan to unveil in 2025,’ Elkann announced told shareholders in a meeting now three years ago. ‘You can be sure this will be everything you dream the engineers and designers at Maranello can imagine for such a landmark in our history.
‘We are continuing to execute our electrification strategy in a highly disciplined way.’ Elkann added: ‘Our interpretation of these technologies both in motorsport and in road cars is a huge opportunity to bring the uniqueness and passion of Ferrari to new generations.’
Few other details are known, but we expect this new EV to be a sports car akin to the F8.
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