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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Ferrari to develop hybrid sports cars

"We want to reduce our CO2 emissions by 40 per cent between now and 2012," Luca Cordero di Montezemolo told the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, in an interview to be published on Sunday.

But he insisted that any future hybrid Ferrari would still be "fundamentally a Ferrari".

"We are currently working on the development of a Ferrari that will use alternative energy sources and which will be based on what we are doing at the moment in Formula 1," he said, referring to Ferrari's Kinetic Energy Recycling System (KERS), which is designed to draw extra power from the brakes. from Ferrari to develop hybrid sports cars