All-electric Alfieri by 2020
Two-seat coupe to be Maserati’s first pure-electric vehicleMaserati has confirmed it will put a battery-electric version (BEV) of its concept-to-production Alfieri sports car into production by 2020.
Built as a design study off outdated GranTurismo architecture, the Alfieri will blossom with pure battery-electric power, though it will debut a year earlier, in 2019, with twin-turbo V6 power.
The Alfieri was shown in 2014 as a V8-powered styling exercise to provide its designers with the language to craft future Maseratis, but it has blossomed since then. And the move to BEV power seems to explain its extra-year delay from the original rollout plan.
Maserati is under pressure to meet the EU average fuel economy and emissions targets, which will hit 95 grams/km by 2020/2021, which is at least half what it has now.
It won’t be the last BEV Maserati, either, with plans for a BEV version of the next-generation Levante SUV and the Ghibli and Quattroporte, too.
The existing Maserati business plan finishes in 2018, after the replacements for the GranTurismo and GranCabrio hit the streets.
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