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Its cars may be entirely irrational purchases but a cool vein of logic runs through everything Ferrari does. It spent a pile of money on a jewel-like twin-turbo V6 but is busy amortising the R&D outlay across a number of production cars and a rampantly successful world endurance programme that’s already won Le Mans. And the Ferrari Purosangue was green lit only when it was clear Multimatic had a suspension system that would allow Ferrari to build a crossover that drives like no other high-riding quasi-4×4.
Yet there’s no obvious wisdom in its decision to create a fully electric Ferrari. While all around others are losing their nerve (the first electric Bentley is now a 2026/2027 car, Lotus has pressed pause and Aston and Lamborghini are in no hurry), Maranello is pushing on.
The first Ferrari electric car: the DNA
That’s due in no small part to CEO Benedetto Vigna, who’s adamant the car will be an exceptional Ferrari first, electric second. ‘When you have nothing it is a good excuse to postpone,’ he smiles, in reference to rivals’ reticence. What’s more, Vigna’s confident the car will appeal on the emotional level on which any Ferrari must operate. After all, there are no grants or tax breaks in the rarefied air it will breathe.
‘We develop new technologies out of a desire to improve the quality of life, not only from a utility point of view but also for fun. The electric car will do this. I have driven it, and it is something unique. The people making electric cars today must optimise the cost – we have the luxury of not having to do this.’
Reuters has reported that Ferrari will charge more than €500,000 (£413k) for its first EV.
Retooling Ferrari for the electric age
As chairman John Elkann pointed out at the opening of its new e-building in Maranello (below), Ferrari’s electrified expertise is considerable (F1, Le Mans, several compelling hybrid production cars), even if its EV back catalogue is non-existent. Reason to be hopeful, then, even if the latest spyshots appear to show an awkward 2+2 crossover, caused by the usual physics of packaging batteries in the car’s platform.
Electric supercars are a tough sell, undoubtedly, and the SUV bodystyle suits the powertrain, certainly; clearly unconvinced the technology yet has the specific output to work in a pure performance car, Lamborghini is thinking along similar lines, as is Bentley.
But the decision to go SUV will disappoint anyone hoping Ferrari was going to do for supercars what the electric Cayman and Boxster promise to do for sports cars.
When will we see the Ferrari EV?
Word reaches CAR HQ that the debut is still on for this year. At first, we were expecting the Ferrari Capital Markets Day in October – a trading update for the Italian supercar brand – but we now hear it may be a little later in 2025.
Watch this space. We will update this page the moment we hear more news and intel on the all-electric Ferrari.