Contrary to a sea of other car brands, Ferrari is in no hurry to escape from the internal combustion engine. In fact, it's just the other way around, says the director.
Ferrari will never get to the point where the brand only builds electric cars.
At least not if you ask the brand's managing director Benedetto Vigna. And the American TV channel CNBC has done that.
But the ceiling of never abandoning the internal combustion engine is not the same as Ferrari completely disregarding the electric car. On the contrary.
– We honestly have no doubt that we can deliver a unique experience to our customers because we can utilize technology in a unique way.
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– This is what our company has done since the beginning, Vigna said when asked about Ferrari's plans for electric cars.
And the electric cars are coming. As early as next year, Ferrari will unveil the brand's first all-electric car. But it is therefore a long way from a model program consisting exclusively of electric cars.
And that will never happen otherwise, stresses Vigna, who believes that the driving force should be up to the customers. Nobody else.
On the other hand, Ferrari already bets on selling 60 percent pure electric cars and hybrids in 2026. By then, Ferrari – and all other car brands in Europe – will have just 9 more years to sell new cars with internal combustion engines.
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Ferrari is far from the only brand that sticks to the internal combustion engine. BMW, for example, refuses to set an end date for the technology. And Toyota does not believe that the world can do without the internal combustion engine.
Last week, the chief executive of one of the automotive industry's absolute largest subcontractors also went public and demanded that the ban on the internal combustion engine be lifted.
– We need to lift the complete ban on cars with combustion engines, which the EU has decided, says managing director at Mahle Arnd Franz in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung .
