Lamborghini Boss Outlines How The Coming All-Electrical Flagship Supercar Will Stand Out

The home of the raging bull is promoting extra automobiles than it could actually construct. The truth is, its recognition is permitting Lamborghini to department out into unknown territory. By 2028 it plans to launch its first all-electric flagship supercar and CEO Stephan Winkelmann has given us some thought of the way it will stand out with out a sound.

Responding to a query throughout an interview with ABC about how the Italian automaker plans to deal with complaints about EVs not feeling mechanical and pleasant as gas-powered fashions, Winkelmann laid out how Lamborghini plans to separate itself.

“What makes a Lamborghini a Lamborghini is the design, the efficiency when it comes to bare numbers – lap instances, prime velocity, acceleration – and perceived efficiency, or how a lot emotion you expertise whenever you drive our automobiles,” mentioned the corporate’s CEO. “Usually electrical automobiles are superb at longitudinal acceleration however they’re not very nice to drive – i.e. cornering, braking conduct, the response on the steering wheel. That is one thing now we have to show and we’re engaged on this earlier than the primary electrical automotive involves market from Lamborghini.”

Learn: All the things We Know About Lamborghini’s New V12 Hybrid Supercar

We’ve surmised prior to now about how laborious it’ll be for corporations like Lamborghini to face out in a sea of EVs that may all do 0-60 in lower than 3 seconds. It sounds to us like they at the very least have a good suggestion of how important it’s to keep up efficiency past straight-line velocity.

Early subsequent 12 months, the Aventador’s substitute will arrive. It would achieve this with a hybridized powertrain and what’s doubtless the final Lamborghini V12. It’s going to be a particular automotive no matter what it appears like, what it’s named, or how nicely it truly performs, and to that finish, Winkelmann says that it’s already taken practically 3,000 preorders.

Winkelmann famous that such a excessive determine, contemplating that only a few folks have truly seen the automotive, signifies good issues. “[Customers] actually consider we’re doing the suitable factor, which is a optimistic signal,” he mentioned. Fairly merely, excessive demand has allowed the corporate to attempt issues just like the upcoming Huracan Sterrato and be the primary supercar firm with a wholly hybridized lineup, a aim it plans to succeed in by 2024.