Electric Ferrari and SUV: hoax or reality?

Smart cars, electric SUVs, the used car “holding” the market, diesel fuel that will come out, instead of trading.

The year 2018 begins with a number of contradictions to make the next 12 months of the global automobile market difficult to interpret.
Among all these issues, one in particular has garnered interest in different circles: the so-called “green turn” of Sergio Marchionne.

The electric Ferrari and the Ferrari SUV

Announced for years, awaited with curiosity and skepticism by most, the electric Ferrari appears to no longer be a utopia.

Not only that. Marchionne from the recent Detroit show thundered that “If someone makes the electric supercar, that someone will be Ferrari.
And soon after, by 2020, the “FUV,” the Ferrari SUV, will also be born.

An announcement that really shook the markets, but one that solidifies the willingness on the part of the Administrator of the FCA behemoth not to sit idly by and watch rivals jump into markets where the Prancing Horse brand wants to excel.

Evidently, the top management of Rossa knows that everything is ready. The challenge, of course, is with Tesla, which has already announced the new electric Tesla Roadster (launching in 2020), a supercar that will reach 400 km/h and be able to get from 0 to 100 in 1.9 seconds.

A change from the statements of a year ago, when Marchionne himself had labeled as “obscene” the mere thought of an electric Ferrari. It is known that in terms of emissions, electrics represent the only possible alternative to dependence on the oil lobby (provided, however, that we switch to alternative energies to produce it, otherwise the vicious circle will not be broken anyway) but they have some major flaws.

If for that of fuel consumption and charges that are getting closer and closer to the performance of combustion cars (there is already talk of cars capable of traveling more than 500 km without problems on a single charge) and that of prices, is greatly lowering the initial range remains the insurmountable one for mechanical purists: how will the new Ferrari be accepted by those accustomed to recognizing the sound of the 12-cylinder from afar?

Will the houses be able to make us keep that classic, unmistakable rumble, or will we have to live on memories, downloading old footage from the net, turning up the sound to noise pollution complaint levels?

But more importantly, is it right for Ferrari to also jump into these markets (electric and SUV), distorting its origin?

If we seem to have reached a point of no return for electric, is there still room for discussion for the SUV, or have they already made up their minds in Maranello?

Alexander Zelioli