All Ferraris to be hybridised by 2019

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Think of hybrid, the first thing to cross our mind is a run-of-the-mill, family-carrying grocery getter, until full-fledged supercars such as Ferrari LaFerrari, McLaren P1, Porsche 918 Spyder and BMW i8 burst into the scene. Thanks to growingly stringent emission rules, even supercars are not exempted from the wave of hybridisation (not even race cars such as the current F1 cars). Seeing the increasing trend in hybridisation, Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobile, sees it fit to hybridise all Ferraris by 2019.

Marchionne has set the aim for Ferrari to sell "in excess of 10,000 cars in 2025". To do that though, requires pairing up the engine with the electric motor to cut emission. 

Meeting low emission demand is surely not Ferrari's sole purpose of going hybrid, but to also bolster performance potential. The LaFerrari is so far the only Ferrari production car to use hybrid approach, by hooking up the 789 horsepower naturally-aspirated V12 to the 161 horsepower HY-KERS for a total output of 950 horsepower.

It is also rumoured that by 2020 the first mainstream Ferrari to receive hybrid power is the successor to the F12, as reported by Autocar.

With Ferrari planning to hybridise all models by 2019, will we see more supercar makers hybridising their entire model line-up? In my opinion, with the tightening emission regulation, it wouldn't be surprising to see the road filling up with hybrid supercars, seeing that passing the all-important emission test nowadays is every car's, supercar or not, raison d'etre.