Ferrari on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with battery provider SK On for future battery growth.
The two corporations will associate to “explore new possibilities and potential solutions to advance cell technology,” in keeping with an SK On press launch. This is along with an current battery-supply association in place since 2019, which has seen SK On provide batteries for Ferrari plug-in hybrids.
Ferrari SF90 Spider Assetto Fiorano
SK at first equipped batteries for the Ferrari SF90 Stradale and and its open-top SF90 Spider by-product, including the 296 GTB and 296 GTS in 2021 and 2022, respectively. Prior to that, Ferrari launched a path balloon for hybrid tech within the type of the limited-edition LaFerrari.
Ferrari executives have mentioned hybrids as an alternative choice to EVs, claiming all-electric fashions can be an excessive amount of of a stretch for the model. In 2016, Ferrari chairman Sergio Marchionne known as the concept of an electrical Ferrari “an obscene concept.” But in 2018 he modified his thoughts, saying then that “if there may be an electrical supercar to be constructed, then Ferrari would be the first.”
Ferrari SF90 Spider
Ferrari is now anticipated to launch its first EV in 2025, nevertheless it’s more likely to be an SUV reasonably than a supercar. It’s unclear if batteries from that mannequin will come from SK, which has vegetation in Georgia supplying a number of automakers, in addition to a BlueOval SK three way partnership in Kentucky that can construct cells for next-generation Ford EVs.
Regardless of what batteries will energy upcoming electrical Ferraris, the model’s boss not too long ago promised in a CNBC interviewthat “electric cars aren’t silent” and that it is engaged on “sound signatures for its EVs. Let’s hope for one thing a little bit extra subtle than the screaming, vibrating voice that Dodge has prepped for its electrical muscle automobile.
Source: www.greencarreports.com