The yellow stickers with a high voltage warning indicate that we are dealing with an electric vehicle. This is not the first time that a carmaker decides to install a fake exhaust system on a prototype EV to confuse people around. Porsche has been doing the same trick for some time now with a prototype electric Boxster.
It is also interesting that the nameless prototype in camouflage, assembled from elements of different models, was spotted on the roads just a few days after the official opening of the new Ferrari plant in Maranello. It is at this plant that components of the future electric model will be produced.
Ferrari has promised that its first EV will make a "real" noise, whatever that means. The car is rumoured to cost more than $500,000, although CEO Benedetto Vigna this week refused to confirm that information. He also denied rumours that the new plant would increase annual production from around 14,000 to 20,000 cars.
Ferrari's test mule
Although Ferrari is at the dawn of the electric era, it still plans to sell V-12-powered cars for as long as possible. Head of product marketing Emanuele Carando recently stated that the twelve-cylinder engine will continue to be produced until it is outlawed. However, the Italian sports car brand predicts that pure internal combustion engine cars will only account for 20 per cent of annual sales by 2030. Around 40 per cent will come from plug-in hybrids, while the remaining 40 per cent will be pure electric cars.
The first all-electric Ferrari is expected to officially premiere at the end of 2025.
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