Ferrari introduces fake exhaust sound to electric models
The fact that car manufacturers like to camouflage the prototypes of their new electric models with a dummy exhaust pipe is nothing new. Such prototypes can be seen time and again. As a rule, however, the electric car prototypes tend to give themselves away by rolling past the photographers almost silently.
Not so with a vehicle that was filmed in Italy a few weeks ago. This is the upcoming electric Ferrari, which is referred to as the F244 in the Instagram video. In the short video, you can not only see a stick-on fake exhaust, but also hear a combustion engine-like driving noise. In the recording, the car only rolls out quite slowly in front of a barrier at the factory gate, but it is clearly not a spaceship sound, but rather an engine hum.
Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna has already indicated in the past that electric cars do not have to be quiet for him. There is no question that the sound of the engine has great emotional significance for customers of a sports car brand like Ferrari. The video snippet is still far too short to get a real picture of this feature, how it sounds in different driving situations or whether customers can even choose between different sounds (and silence).
All that is certain so far is that the electric Ferrari will be a four-door model, built in the new factory in Maranello and that it will receive battery cells from Ferrari’s long-standing battery partner SK On (for the hybrid models). Ferrari will present everything else later this year.
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