{"id":39549,"date":"2023-01-04T12:03:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39549"},"modified":"2023-01-04T12:03:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:03:55","slug":"maserati-fast-charging-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=39549","title":{"rendered":"Maserati Considers Reducing Its EVs’ Charging Speed To Lower Weight, Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maserati is months away from the official market debut of its first EV, the GranTurismo Folgore, which runs on an advanced 800-volt platform and supports fast charging at up to 270 kW. That\u2019s quite fast even compared to the quickest-charging EVs on the market, but apparently Maserati is considering ditching this fast charging capability in the quest for lower overall vehicle weight.<\/p>\n

According to this Autocar report that quotes Ana Paola Reginatto, who is Global Head of e-Mobility at Maserati<\/a>, the manufacturer would happily sell an electric vehicle that didn\u2019t fast charge. She argues that since most cars (electric or otherwise) spend a much larger chunk of their time being stationary than on the move, this time could be spent slow charging.<\/p>\n

Selling EVs with no fast charging capability would make them not only lighter, which has a whole host of benefits, but also cheaper and more simple to manufacture. Reginatto expresses her view that<\/p>\n

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Today, we buy a car based on the range it might need once a year when we go on a long drive, and the space we might need in it once a year, when we pack for our holidays, for instance.<\/p>\n

But that attitude towards excessive consumption – or at least buying the most we will ever need – is shifting. Think of the weight of an on-board charger: 40kg! We spend millions trying to engineer 40kg out of a car, so if we can shift attitudes towards slower charging, there are huge potential benefits.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The same report quotes Reginatto as saying that in the age of electrification, Maserati will have a harder time marketing its vehicles, as opposed to engineering them. She says that it\u2019s already easier to make really quick EVs<\/a>, easier than making comparable ICE vehicles today, and that the manufacturer expects that 60 percent of its future buyers, the ones who will buy a Maserati EV, will be completely new to the brand.<\/p>\n

It also sounds like Maserati is currently trying to redefine its image as it moves towards electrification, given that characterful combustion engines have always played a large part in making its vehicles appealing. She said<\/p>\n

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But that performance is a basic expectation of a Maserati buyer. What\u2019s critical is combining it with luxury, and in the case of the Maserati Grecale SUV, using it to form a vehicle that is in some ways exceptional to drive every single day. We need to get that message across.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

However, selling EVs that slow charge in today’s market context just seems like a bad decision. Many new EVs are already very quick to charge their batteries, and there’s definitely a race going on between the manufacturers to see who can get an even faster-charging platform out. In fact, in some market segments how quickly a vehicle charges seems to nowadays be more important than how quickly the vehicle accelerates.<\/p>\n

We do understand where\u00a0Ana Paola Reginatto is coming from, given that most sports cars will probably end up in a garage and won’t be driven as frequently as a regular car. If such a vehicle is kept in a garage it could be slow-charged all the time and still be ready to go when you want it to. But what about going cross-continent in a slow-charging EV?<\/p>\n

Not having the ability to fast charge when you really need it would render such a vehicle practically useless at anything other than local driving for relatively short distances. Let us know your view on this matter in the comments section below.<\/p>\n

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Maserati is months away from the official market debut of its first EV, the GranTurismo Folgore, which runs on an advanced 800-volt platform and supports fast charging at up to 270 kW. That\u2019s quite fast even compared to the quickest-charging EVs on the market, but apparently Maserati is considering ditching this fast charging capability in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}