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| ▲ | ehnto 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Ferrari makes hypercars, they know a thing or two about making aerodynamics look good. It's a primary concern of all their designs and yet all their other designs look a lot better than this. I think they are just falling into the same trap all other manufacturers do at first. They think the customer buying the EV is a different customer, who didn't like their other cars. So they make the techno-future mobile for a customer that doesn't exist. Just make the same cars with an EV drivetrain, that's what the person who loves your brand but is in the market for an EV wants. |
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| ▲ | decimalenough 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Legacy car manufacturers have done just that (forcing an EV into an ICE chassis). The results generally suck and the pure EV manufacturers like Tesla and BYD have kicked their ass in the market. | | |
| ▲ | codebje 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | You can use a similar design to your existing fleet without a literal retrofit of an existing chassis to shoehorn a battery and electric drive train in there. The retrofits usually are less preferable not only because of pointless inconveniences like transmission tunnels, but because they'll be the manufacturer's first toe dipped into the EV waters. The retrofit chassis speaks to either a rush to market, or a cautious approach not wanting to commit too many resources. The former says it'll have issues, the latter says they might bail on it and leave you stranded for service and repairs. Or both at once. |
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| ▲ | aaronbrethorst 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's a $650,000 car. These are not anyone's top priorities with it. |
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| ▲ | binkHN 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > energy efficiency matters more with EVs This is correct, but I really don't see why Ferrari would care. |
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| ▲ | simondotau 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Aero efficiency means going faster and going for longer without making the battery heavier. The cost and packaging aspects of bigger batteries doesn’t matter to Ferrari, but speed & handling absolutely does, and weight is a definite speed/handling penalty. | |
| ▲ | MitziMoto 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Exactly! Many Ferraris of the past have gotten single digit MPG, no one cares. All of a sudden they have to make a Chinese looking EV because of "efficiency"? Give me a break. |
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