Ferrari and battery provider SK On will associate on superior battery cell know-how, the 2 firms introduced Tuesday.

SK On has been supplying batteries to Ferrari since 2019, initially for the SF90 Stradale plug-in hybrid and its open-top SF90 Spider variant, after which for the 296 GTB and 296 GTS plug-in hybrids. The 2 firms have now signed a memorandum of understanding to “discover new prospects and potential options” in battery-cell tech.

Ferrari SF90 Stradale

A memorandum of understanding just isn’t the identical as a product plan, however Ferrari will doubtless have extra want for batteries sooner or later for each extra plug-in hybrids and at the very least some all-electric fashions. The automaker is within the midst of launching 15 new fashions, together with an EV, doubtless an SUV, due in 2025. Ferrari is increasing its manufacturing unit to accommodate EV manufacturing.

A Ferrari patent submitting that surfaced in late 2023 hinted that the automaker is engaged on in-wheel electrical motors, though given the challenges firms like Lordstown Motors have had getting in-wheel motors into manufacturing, any future Ferrari EV could go along with a extra typical design.

Ferrari 296 GTS Assetto Fiorano

One other Ferrari patent submitting for an “electrical or hybrid sport automotive” instructed the automaker can be experimenting with a mid-mounted battery pack that will sit the place an engine usually would. On this submitting, Ferrari mentioned mounting battery modules on a subframe-like construction that might be bolted to the chassis.

CEO Benedetto Vigna mentioned in an interview with CNBC Tuesday that Ferrari’s upcoming EV will ship the identical “distinctive” expertise because the automaker’s combustion fashions, including that “electrical automobiles are usually not silent.” So maybe Ferrari will use some type of synthetic sound era, as within the 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona, to achieve the requisite stage of emotion.