FERRARI PRODUCES LOW-COST VENTILATOR
Ferrari has unveiled a low-cost pulmonary ventilator which the Formula 1 team designed and built in just five weeks, with the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), to help battle coronavirus.
Ferrari described the device as ‘a reliable, versatile, easy to use and assemble ventilator, to optimise oxygen consumption’, and added that is has been ‘produced using easily-available materials at a lower cost than currently-available pulmonary ventilators’. The project is named FI5 – referring to Ferrari, IIT and the time taken to produce it – and the ventilator’s specifications have been released so anyone can produce the device.
Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto said: “The challenge of Covid-19 was one we wanted to take on. FI5 is the contribution we made as the Scuderia, fielding the very essence of what makes a Formula 1 team and more importantly, all the characteristics that make Ferrari special; its passion, its creativity and its desire to improve.”