Ferrari to launch its first hybrid car – a snip at £527,000+
Ferrari is producing its first hybrid car. It will be an Enzo and it will be presented at the end of the year. The car is reported to cost €660,000. The engine of the car will combine two electric motors with a twelve cylinder gas engine. This combination will make it possible to reduce fuel use with 40%. Despite this new technology Ferrari's are still the most polluting cars at the moment, with a greenhouse gas emission of 545g/km. According to new agreements on emission it should actually be 95g/km by 2020. The Committee on Climate Change hopes these changes will come in the UK. They expect that the market for electric vehicles will increase from a current 1% to a 16% in 2020.
Ferrari founder Enzo Ferrari (1898 - 1988) poses with his cars at the Ferrari factory, Manarello, Italy, 1956. Photograph: Thomas D. McAvoy/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image
Opinion.
Lately there has been a lot of talk about hybrid cars and that they should improve the environment. Many car manufacturers are working on new car types. There are even electrical cars nowadays. According to this article even Ferrari now launches a new type of car. I think this is a good development. Ferraris is always seen as a cool car which is very appealing. Actually Ferrari is in a certain way exumpted from the greenhouse gas emission rules, but the fact they are also trying to work on a green car shows that they are not only concerned about creating a cool car, but that they are also thinking about the environment.
