- Ferrari CEO Louis Camilleri, quoted by Reuters today, said that a fully electric Ferrari is going to happen eventually, but it won't arrive before 2025.
- The all-electric Ferrari will ride on a GT platform, but for now the company is focusing on its hybridization efforts.
- Ferrari plans to have its lineup 60 percent hybrid by 2022.
For decades Ferrari turned down the idea of ever producing an SUV, and now it's working on developing one under the Purosangue name. The Italian automaker has also turned down the idea of full electrification, but now Ferrari CEO Louis Camilleri says that its first all-electric car is only a few years off.
Mike Flewitt, CEO of McLaren, told C/D just last week that the battery technology for an all-electric supercar is not ready and that McLaren's fully electric car is at least 30 years off. But Ferrari initially hoped to have an all-electric platform ready as early as 2022, which it's coming to realize to be unrealistic; still, its ambition is to release an electric car in the next several years, which would be a long time before McLaren plans to.
"There are still significant issues in terms of autonomy, in terms of speed of recharging. So eventually we will come out with one. But it's post-2025. Not in the short term," Camilleri told reporters in Maranello this week. He said that the all-electric platform will initially be based on a GT car platform, but for now the company is focused on hybridization.
Ferrari intends to have its lineup be 60 percent hybrid by 2022, when the company plans to unveil its first SUV. Earlier this year, the company announced the 986-hp SF90 Stradale plug-in hybrid (pictured at top). Ferrari claims it'll reach 60 mph in 2.5 seconds, 124 mph in 6.7, and continue on to a top speed of 211 mph.