Ferrari hybrid

Ferrari to slash sports cars' carbon emissions: president
Sunday July 6, 2008, 5:46 am

BERLIN (AFP) - Sports car manufacturer Ferrari intends to cut its vehicles' greenhouse gas emissions by nearly half and is working on developing hybrid vehicles, the company president said Saturday.

"We want to reduce our CO2 emissions by 40 percent between now and 2012," said Luca Cordero di Montezemolo told the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, in an interview to be published Sunday.

But he insisted that any future hybrid Ferrari would still be "fundamentally a Ferrari."

"We are currently working on the development of a Ferrari that will use alternative energy sources and which will be based on what we are doing at the moment in Formula 1," he said, referring to Ferrari's Kinetic Energy Recycling System (KERS), which is designed to draw extra power from the brakes.

Such a vehicle would be ready to go on the market around 2015.

Asked about the likelihood of fans of the powerful red sports cars buying a Ferrari with a hybrid or electric engine, the boss of the famous racing machines answered: "Yes, of course. It's the best sports car in the world. It's still fundamentally a Ferrari."

 

man, i'm getting more and more into vintage.

 

How do you cut emissions by 40% ?
Would this be at the expense of HP ?
Thanks
Eric

 

A lot of coasting downhill

 

It's the way of the future...Just like when we first started off with coal fired steam engines.It's all about evolution.

 

Hybrids are not the way of the future. They're a half-ass solution.




Alternative fuels are the answer OR all electric.

 

I understand changing your thoughts to fuel efficientsy, but if it is going to effect the HP, don't do it. Ferrari produces no where near as many cars as any other manufacturer, and their aren't that many older Ferraris either. Why should we need to change to Ethanol or something like that when Benz G55s and S classes owners can keep their gas guzzlers?

If it will profit Ferrari performance wise, do it.

 

Where does most of the electricity in the world come from? Not much of a solution.

 

And when SUV owners are exempt from the gas-guzzler tax.

That is irrelevant. We're talking about meeting emissions standards, not saving the environment. They don't necessarily go hand in hand.