Reply To: Electric Maserati

[Eric Toft]

Enjoy the internal combustion engine and driving while you can, it is only a matter of time until they are consigned to history and become quaint relics of a bygone age. I believe that in a surprisingly short period of time we will move away from owning personal transport to ‘hailing’ a self driving ‘personal transport pod’ with our communication device to take us to our destination. Given that for most people, most journeys are short commutes in traffic electric propulsion makes a great deal of sense, couple this with the present situation of the majority of new vehicles already being leased under PCP plans rather than purchased and you can see that this is only a short step on from where we are at present.

Do I want this to happen? No, as anyone who knows we will tell you, I am an fully paid up petrol head but I realise that I am in a minority and for the majority of people electric vehicles make sense. We have still to overcome a number of issues, such as range and charging times and as EV’s become more popular we will see issues regarding access to charging points and the capacity of the electricity grid to cope, but these issues can and will be addressed.

Will Maserati join the EV party? They have no choice, it is a matter of when not if. We have to remember that it was not that many years ago we would not have dreamt of a Maserati having a diesel engine or of a Maserati SUV…