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Is there any automaker that relies more on the sound of its cars than on Lamborghini?Hear the V12 of an Aventador come to life and the answer is no.
That’s why, and we’re sure it won’t surprise anyone, Lamborghini is keen to produce hybrids for as long as possible, before everything goes all-electric.
The Italian supercar maker, owned by the Volkswagen Group, said it plans to introduce its first electric car in 2028, 3 years after neighboring Ferrari unveiled its first electric vehicle.
Before that (and for a few years as well), Lamborghini intends to continue to generate battery-assisted engines, until such time as new cars with internal combustion engines are banned in the middle of the next decade.
Speaking to AutoExpress this week, Lamborghini boss Stephan Winkleman said the company’s first all-electric car will be autonomous and won’t update any of the company’s existing ranges. next year, and is described as a “fourth style that will be more useful on a day-to-day basis. “
By adding a pair of small, possibly kid-friendly rear seats, Lamborghini is set to expand its styling lineup by creating an electric vehicle that ties in with everything it sells lately.
However, it will be strongly connected to the car. Winkleman spoke about the electric vehicle that leverages the Volkswagen Group’s “synergies,” suggesting that the car will use the group’s platform of scalable systems, which will form the basis for long-life electric cars from various brands.
Just as the Urus SUV stores its foundations with the Audi Q8, the first Lamborghini EV can borrow a platform from Audi or other members of the VW group, which also includes Porsche and Bentley.
Before the electric vehicle arrives, Lamborghini plans to bring a minimum of plug-in sensibilities to its extravagant cars, adding a plug-in hybrid successor to the Huracan in 2024 and a plug-in edition of the Usus SUV the same year. A year earlier, in 2023, we see a hybrid (but probably not plug-in) replacement for the Aventador.
So far, Lamborghini’s only electric vehicle is the Sian FKP 37, a car based on the Aventador that complements its V12 engine with a supercapacitor from a classic lithium-ion battery. The same generation is also used in the limited edition Countach LPI 800-4. .
Regarding the inevitable weight savings of an electric Lamborghini with a large battery, technical director Rouven Mohr said: “We have some concepts to compensate for this. . . For example, with regard to driving dynamics, control, drift, driving behavior in general. “
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