Stellantis’ sprawling Mirafiori plant in Turin, Italy, acquired a 700 million euro (roughly $807 million) improve in 2019 to arrange it for manufacturing of electrical automobiles, with the primary EV already in manufacturing there within the type of the third-generation Fiat 500.
Mirafiori can also be residence to manufacturing of the Maserati Levante.
Manufacturing of three electrical Maseratis will even be dealt with on the plant, Stellantis mentioned late on Monday. The positioning will even be used to construct electrical motors and different parts for electrical automobiles, making it an EV hub for Stellantis.
The primary of the electrical Maseratis is due in 2022.
2021 Maserati Ghibli Trofeo
Two of the electrical Maseratis will probably be redesigned variations of the Ghibli and Quattroporte sedans, Stellantis advised Bloomberg. The present Ghibli and Quattroporte are constructed on the close by Grugliasco plant, although the longer term manufacturing for this plant hasn’t been introduced.
Maserati can have a bespoke platform for its redesigned Ghibli and Quattroporte. It is potential the platform will even assist variations of the vehicles with internal-combustion engines, in mild-hybrid and plug-in hybrid configurations.
The id of the third electrical Maserati to be constructed on the Mirafiori plant is not clear. It is potential the automotive is the redesigned GranTurismo that is at the moment out testing. The brand new GT is due out later this yr, initially with an internal-combustion engine. The electrical model is anticipated in 2022, the identical yr the Mirafiori plant is because of churn out its first electrical Maserati. Another might be a redesigned Levante.
Maserati has beforehand introduced an electrical powertrain often called Maserati Blue. The powertrain was introduced with numerous configurations, essentially the most potent of which was a three-motor setup operating on 800-volt battery know-how.