Italy’s trident-badged car maker will ditch petrol power by 2030, with six new electric vehicles planned between 2023 and 2025 alone – including three sports or supercars.
Italian sports and luxury car maker Maserati will go electric by the end of this decade – and one of its first new electric cars will be a high-performance GranTurismo coupe, offering more than 880kW.
Confirmed overnight, all Maserati models sold globally will be electric by 2030 – following its subsidiaries within the Stellantis group, including France’s DS (EV by 2024), Italy’s Lancia (2024) and Alfa Romeo (2027).
The brand plans to launch six new electric vehicles by 2025, which Maserati says will make it the “first luxury brand to complete the EV line-up”, with two SUVs, one sedan, two sports or supercars. All Maserati electric cars will wear the ‘Folgore’ badge, Italian for ‘lightning’.
Every Maserati on sale in 2025 will offer an electric option – squeezing out the BMW 5 Series-sized Ghibli sedan, which has been a slow seller compared to its rivals since it launched in 2014.
First to launch will be an electric version of the next-generation GranTurismo, due next year in both petrol-powered and all-electric guises.
Powering the car will be three electric motors (two at the rear, one up front) and a larger lithium-ion battery mounted low through the centre of the car, to develop “way over” 883kW (1200 metric horsepower) – comfortably making it the most powerful Maserati ever built.
It will be capable of a 0-100km/h sprint time of under three seconds, towards a top speed of “over” 300km/h. DC fast charging capabilities are said to be “top class”.
Teaser images reveal little more than what’s been seen in spy photos, with proportions reminiscent of a front-engined, rear-wheel-drive car (given that’s the layout the petrol-powered model will adopt), machined aerodynamics-oriented wheels, and MC20 supercar-like headlights.
The new GranTurismo coupe will also spawn a GranCabrio convertible twin, also available with Folgore electric power.
Later in 2023, Maserati will launch an electric version of the Grecale mid-size SUV – though unlike the GranTurismo’s three motors and expected 800-volt charging system, the Grecale Folgore is tipped to stick with dual motors and 400-volt hardware, due to seven-year-old underpinnings shared with the Alfa Romeo Stelvio.
Nonetheless, it’s believed the car will still be capable of 500kW combined – about 60kW more than the petrol-powered, one-size-up Levante Trofeo, and its 3.9-litre twin-turbo Ferrari V8.
The petrol-powered Grecale will be revealed next week (22 March), ahead of first Australian deliveries due in the fourth quarter of 2022 (October to December).
Due by 2025 is an electric version of the MC20 supercar, expected to use three motors.
Next-generation (7 Series-sized) Quattroporte flagship sedan and X5-sized Levante large SUV models are also due by 2025 – though reports suggest these will be electric-only, and will offer Level 3 semi-autonomous driving capability.
With six models in showrooms by 2025, Maserati plans to go all-electric globally by 2030.
It remains to be seen if these new electric cars make their way to Australia, though the new electric SUVs would fall in line with local sales trends.
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