For those of you too young to remember the fact for yourselves, I’m about to drop a truth-bomb: the 1980s were an absolutely magical time to love cars. There was a strange mix of things happening to help fuel that fact, too — a bit of hand-built craftsmanship here, some … [continued]
Plans to launch an all electric Ferrari in 2025 have been leaked on the Porsche Taycan forum and include a number of details!
Ferrari has taken an important baby step towards electrification with its latest production supercar, the Ferrari SF90 Stradale plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). The car has three electric motors (two at the front, one at the rear axle) coupled with a V8 engine. It goes from 0–100 km/h (0–62 mph) in 2.5 seconds. Meanwhile, with a pure electric drivetrain, the next-gen Tesla Roadster prototype does so in 2.1 secs.
I’ll defend everything I present here, but the Maserati Alfieri Concept is much closer to what the Maserati brothers were working on than anything else from these past decades. An electric Maserati, even the Maserati Alfieri Concept, is closer to the original pioneering Maserati spirit of the 1930s than what we’ve seen since then.
Episode 45 of Cleantech Talk is here! This episode covers Ferrari’s electric envy, California’s climate leadership, a “Dear Elon” letter, and Norway’s oil & gas expansion.
Originally published on Gas2. The Ferrari 308 starred along with Tom Selleck in the long running TV show Magnum PI. Unfortunately, the cars had a tendency to set themselves on fire. That’s what happened to the car you see here. But that was just the beginning of the story for Eric … [continued]
