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BOLOGNA, Italy – Ferrari needs to extend its experience in battery cells given the significance of the transition to electrified automobiles, however has no plans to construct its personal, its CEO Benedetto Vigna mentioned Monday.
The Italian luxurious sports activities automobile maker has been promoting hybrid-electric automobiles since 2019 and has promised its first absolutely electrical automobile late subsequent yr. Ferrari, which offered solely 14,000 automobiles final yr, might not have the dimensions to provide its personal cells profitably.
“We need to open up the cells and perceive what's in them,” Vigna mentioned on the inauguration of a analysis middle on battery cells in partnership with Italy's College of Bologna and chip maker NXP Semiconductors.
“Manufacturing will all the time be performed by exterior producers, which is what we hope to attain by this analysis middle,” Vigna mentioned throughout a presentation.
“We are able to't afford to deal with cells as black containers,” he mentioned.
The e-Cells Lab focuses on electrochemistry and goals to advertise Ferrari's long-term experience in battery cells, which it purchases from exterior suppliers.
“We shall be utilizing an increasing number of cells and might want to know the chemistry,” Vigna mentioned.
The e-Cells Lab will initially give attention to lithium-based, liquid-state cells, however was prepared to deal with new chemistries and applied sciences, though Vigna mentioned he’s presently contemplating solid-state batteries as an actual choice. Doesn't see.
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