Marchionne: All Maseratis will be electrified beginning in 2019 - And full EVs are coming too

>Every new Maserati will use some form of electric propulsion from 2019, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) CEO Sergio Marchionne has revealed.

>During a conference call with investors, the boss of Maserati’s parent company said the brand would now spearhead the wider group’s push to electric, which will see more than half of FCA's range use some form of electric power by 2022.

>FCA's brands, which also include Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Chrysler and Dodge, will all benefit from the new electric plan. Marchionne said Maserati will switch almost all of its investment in power trains to electric after “it completes the development of its next two models”.

>The first new electrified Maserati is predicted to arrive in 2020 and will be based on the Alfieri concept that made its debut at the Geneva motor show in 2014. The all-electric model is a two-seater sports car that will use a new platform.

>Before then, Maserati will hybridise several of its current models, with the Levante SUV model most likely to introduce a plug-in hybrid drivetrain to the range. As Maserati Europe boss Giulio Pastore told Autocar last year: “The current platform allows for hybrid. We are working on it for 2019, when we will be ready to offer hybridisation."

>Marchionne said that FCA has been hesitant to invest in electric until now due to uncertainty, stating: “We [FCA] have been reluctant to embrace that avenue until we saw clearer the path forward."

>Despite being part of its planning process, Marchionne will not head FCA during this push to electric. The 65-year-old Italian-Canadian announced that he will retire at the end of 2019.

Maserati will be fucked up. :^)

>let me just fuck everything up before I retire
And hoodrats will support him by buying the new electric 300 in droves

>Fiat raped Maseratis

SAD!!!

>let me just fuck everything up before I retire

Sounds true Italian

>making better cars is bad

Veeky Forums likes proving that they dont like cars

>electric
>better

nice meme

>but muh instant torkz and muh effishansy

>more power
>more efficient
>more range

hybrids are better

full ev cars will be better shortly

sorry luddite the world doesnt care about you

>200 miles range
>takes 8+ hours to recharge fully
>better car

:^)

>y-you dont NEED a fast car guys
Why do you think the world has to be as pathetic as you

oh yeah forgot

silent
smooth
perfect for a luxury car like a Maserati


and yeah talk about irrelevant stuff
youre not driving more than 200 miles on a normal day and 8 hours is sleep time not like youre fully draining it anyway

we get it you dont have any real reasons to not like it other than parroting miniscule problems and the fact that its not tryhard luddite tech

Have you heard a Maserati?
They sound godly. The last thing I want from a Maserati is to sound like a food processor.

doesnt matter when you have sound emulation

Audi did it years ago

sound emulation

>whine whine we want sound
>gets sound
>omg why did you give it sound

????

fake sound is so soulless and empty

Oh, god. Why did I even respond. You probably prefer watching porn to having sex.

The best things Maserati ever had going for them was their sound and looks. For that kind of beauty I can overlook the sluggish performance, I can overlook the shit build quality, I can overlook the horrid unreliability, but now they're going to lose one of their greatest assets, the sound, and that I cannot overlook.

just as soulless and empty as real sound then

not that those things matter since its a damn car and it doesnt have soul or substance

or they just replicate it digitally

kek

We're witnessing the downfall of Maserati, they're shit cars that have survived on styling and sound, now they're going to have crap sound. This is funny.

>not that those things matter since its a damn car and it doesn't have soul or substance

why are you on an auto enthusiast board if you obviously don't enjoy cars?

You are probably never going to a live music concert because it's the same as spotify.

I enjoy cars but Im not acting like theyre something special

im just a progressive car enthusiast

I go to 2 or 3 concerts a month

drum machines can sound just as good as the real thing
synthetic engine note can sound just as good as the real thing

proof that progressives ruin everything they touch

yeah we should all go back to ye olde days and act like animals

might as well replace direct injection with 1bbl carbs and ohc with T heads

progressivism is a must
especially now that many governments are becoming woke and restricting ICE cars in the future

ok lets celebrate the death of the enthusiast market

>im just a progressive car enthusiast

Aaaaaand filtered

nope

there are already plenty of EV enthusiasts and theyve been converting cars forever

people are already modding Teslas and shit

theyre just evolving

yeehaww billy bob muh 350 small block is the epitome of mawdin

wat you mean a 2.4L honda makes more power all motor?

luddites have no place in the car world

There's nothing you can really mod or change on an electric car.

theres plenty of ways to increase the power and you can always lose weight

takes a bit more knowhow than a 750 double pumper and a 3/4 race cam

no, you need to upgrade the motors or change the batteries

that's literally it

you can do all kinds of shit to the stock motors

the bottleneck is keeping them cool

give me an example of what you can do

all you need is more juice

fuck off with systems you dont need
modifying the hardware for more electrics like the connectors
and I guess software tuning

this shit has 778 hp

the Tesla motors arent being pushed at their current level

I wonder what will happen once every automaker is producing semi-autonomous electric vehicles, and the novelty has worn off. Brands like Maserati will probably be the first to go.

>i'm just a progressive car enthusiast
>drum machines can sound just as good as the real thing
>synthetic engine note can sound just as good as the real thing

so nothing

Yuropoor nations are about to roll out serious corporate welfare to prepare for banning sale of gasoline cars in 10 to 20 years. You would be stupid to not be the first piggy to the feed.