Ferrari to Put Series Production Hybrid on Sale Next Year

Ferrari’s first series production hybrid model will go on sale in mid 2019, according to a new report.

Ferrari has said previously it will begin to integrate electrified powertrains into its road cars in order to meet emissions regulations and remain at the forefront of vehicle technology. The limited run LaFerrari was a hybrid, but only used its Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS) to boost its performance. The first series production hybrid Ferrari, meanwhile, will leverage the electric portion of its powertrain to get better fuel economy.

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Europe is set to introduce stricter emissions regulations from 2021 onward, but Ferrari is exempt from the laws as it produces less than 10,000 vehicles a year, company chairman Sergio Marchionne told Autocar in a recent interview. But the now publically traded Ferrari is looking to one day boost its annual production numbers from 8,000 units to over 10,000, so it must begin to explore electrification in a serious way. “We’re going to embrace electrification and make it a mainstay,” Marchionne told Autocar.

It’s so far unclear if the first Ferrari hybrid will be a V8 or V12, but seeing as Ferrari’s eight-cylinder models are turbocharged and thus fairly efficient, its twelve-cylinder models seem like good candidates for a hybrid transformation. And Ferrari purists need not worry – Marchionne promises that pure combustion engine vehicles will still be produced by Maranello. How hard they will be for regular customers to get their hands on remains to be seen, however.

[Source: Autocar]

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