FERRARI TO ‘CLEAN UP’ ITS ACT: TO CUT CO2 OUTPUT BY 40%, HYBRID SPORTS CAR UNDER WORKS
The exotic sports car makers have a tougher job to do than the mainstream manufacturers regarding overall efficiency and imminent tougher emission norms. The super cars can no longer be mavericks having full blown engines, gulp precious gasoline by the gallons. While manufcatures like Lamborghini and Porsche say that drastic changes would effect the underlying characters of their cars, Ferrari has different ideas.
One of the most respected automobile brand in the world and one of the most revered, Ferrari has pledged to cut down emissions 40% by the year 2012. The work involves improving the efficiency of its current powerplants, new engines with turbochargers to have power and torque numbers comparable to bigger engines and bringing hybrid technology that could incorporate Ferrari’s Kinetic Energy Recycling System (KERS) which is employed on its F1 cars. The system (KERS) uses a CVT connected to a flywheel that stores kinectic energy lost during braking. Speaking to a German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Ferrari’s President, Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo said that a hybrid Ferrari would be available around the year 2015 and insisted that it would still be “fundamentally a Ferrari”. Here it is to Ferrari then… Long Live the Pracing Horse!
Source: AFP
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I know cleaning up the environment is a categorical imperative but I love the IC engine so much that any thought of hybrids itself makes me feel terrible. And when Ferrari et al have to make the switch, it makes me feel sad. Very sad.
@sadsack… Yes it is sad! A high tech hybrid engine is no match for a fizzy handmade italian V8 engine spinning at 6-7000 rpm and what sound!
But we can take heart from the fact that Ferrari President has said that it would still be “fundamentally a Ferrari”. Amen to that!