MILAN (Reuters) – Ferrari’s plan to continue building internal combustion engine cars powered by e-fuels does not conflict with its 2030 carbon neutral target, its chief executive said on Tuesday. .
“The two (goals) are completely compatible,” Ferrari chief executive Benedetto Vigna told the Financial Times’ Future of the Car conference.
Benedetto Vigna had previously welcomed the European Union’s decision to exempt cars running on e-fuels from the phase-out of combustion-engined vehicles scheduled for 2035, or 2036 for small-volume manufacturers like Ferrari.
“We thought that this (EU) decision would come in 2025 or 2026, but it came two years earlier and it’s a very good thing for us, because we can run a thermal car on neutral fuel in carbon,” said Benedetto Vigna.
Benedetto Vigna also reiterated on Tuesday that Ferrari, which sold more than 13,200 cars in 2022, has no plans to ramp up large-scale production, despite the recent reopening of orders for its new four-door model, the Purosangue, for which the requests were much higher than expected.
“We don’t want to do 50-60% of our volume with one model,” he said.
“When you are on a road and you see the same type of car too many times a day, the eyes get used to it (…) you no longer perceive any desirability.”
(Report Giulio Piovaccari, Augustin Turpin, edited by Kate Entringer)
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