Maserati to share Folgore EV tech with other Stellantis brands

The just-revealed Maserati GranTurismo Folgore could serve as the blueprint for all of the Stellantis group’s high-end performance EVs over the coming years, with Maserati executives confirming the Italian car-maker will “share knowledge” with sister brands including Alfa Romeo, Dodge and RAM.

Speaking at the global reveal of the new-generation GranTurismo, Maserati global product manager Massimo Capaldi explained how the brand’s “ingress into Stellantis” helped guide Maserati’s future road map as well as the GranTurismo project.

“Looking back at the beginning of the project, Stellantis was still not there, but then when entered Stellantis with this kind of project, we decided to merge our experience and to define the best experience and the best car, looking at the kind of quality and validation we would like to exceed because definitely Stellantis brought us a lot of knowledge, because we were not the first EV brand into the group,” he said.

“So basically, what the kind of service Stellantis gave to us was the help in defining the best in terms of serviceability and technical expertise to deliver the best quality and best product in an EV world which, by the way for us, was a new kind of business, so we definitely looked after Stellantis for this kind of approach.

“We are a family, we work together and that’s not a matter of doing only Maserati – we will share knowledge overall with the group and we work together every day with all the other brands to deliver the best products overall.”

The GranTurismo Folgore powertrain is based around a trio of 300kW electric motors and a 92.5kWh battery pack, yielding performance outputs as high as 610kW/800Nm (and total system outputs of up to 900kW/1350Nm) and a 450km cruising range.

In case you haven’t read our full GranTurismo reveal story yet, the Folgore will dispatch 0-100km/h sprint in just 2.7 seconds, hit 200km/h in 8.8sec and top out at 320km/h.

The Folgore project was underway before Maserati’s admission to the Stellantis entity and the trident brand says the motors were “specifically designed for exclusive use by Maserati”.

But that shouldn’t stop other Stellantis brands being able to leverage at least some of the technology – including the electric motors and battery hardware – for their own EV endeavours.

Alfa Romeo, Dodge and RAM are the three big potential beneficiaries of this ultra-high-performance technology sharing as all three marques move to full electrification.

Alfa’s Quadrifoglio high-performance division is rumoured to be cooking up a few new-generation EVs to wear the brand’s most iconic nameplates – Spider and GTV – and the company’s top brass has previously expressed a desire to offer a Quadrifoglio flagship version of every appropriate model line.

We already know the GranTurismo’s bespoke platform is scalable in design and earmarked for other Maserati models going forward, and given the new Maserati Grecale and Alfa Romeo Tonale are platform buddies there’s no reason why a future Giulia or some other mid-size or large model couldn’t inherit its own version of the platform.

Dodge will more than likely be the first brand to leverage some of the Folgore’s hardware given its next-generation Dodge Challenger and Charger muscle car twins will be exclusively electric when they launch mid-decade.

The American brand has already previewed its performance EV future via the Dodge Charger Daytona SRT concept and confirmed its first production electric muscle car will feature an 800V electric architecture and all-wheel-drive… just like the Folgore.

No power or performance figures for the Daytona SRT concept have been floated yet, but executives have promised the brand’s inaugural EV will be faster than the current Dodge Challenger Hellcat, pointing to a sub-3.5sec sprint to 100km/h and a 10sec quarter-mile time.

Rumours of a dual- or tri-motor powertrain as well as a possible link to the Folgore have been circling ever since the ‘Banshee’ was teased back in July last year.

The other big favourite then would have to be the RAM 1500 TRX EV that’s been teased numerous times over the past few months.

With a battery-electric RAM 1500 concept set to break cover next month, RAM customers have reportedly told the brand that any new model must perform at least as well as the current portfolio regardless of the powertrain.

Given the existing RAM 1500 TRX employs a bullocking 523kW 6.2-litre supercharged V8, the electric TRX will have to be quite kiloWatt the monster…

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