The recently introduced Aventador LP780-4 Ultimae is the latest purely combustion model of the Italian brand Lamborghini. However, this does not mean that the twelve-cylinder should end – the carmaker is counting on it in the future. Stephan Winkelmann, its boss, told the British magazine Autocar.
–
One of the new models is due to be unveiled this year and is set to be a hybrid that will have a twelve-cylinder and supercapacitors, not batteries, in its bowels to store electricity. The same technique was used by Sián FKP 37, a special model unveiled in 2019 with production limited to tens of pieces.
–
Lamborghini Sián FKP 37.
Photo: Lamborghini
The twelve-cylinder – and according to the Motor1 website not the current engine, marked L539, but a completely new unit – will also have a successor to the aventador, which should be shown in 2023. It should be a plug-in hybrid.
–
“The supercapacitor (…) does not meet our needs for future emission reductions. In the years 2023–2024, we are hybridizing our entire model line to reduce CO2 emissions by 50% by 2025. Supercapacitors would not be able to do this, “Winkelmann answered when asked why the carmaker will start using batteries like most other brands.
–
Namely, the recently presented proposal for a stricter plan to reduce CO2 emissions – the much-discussed one, which is to de facto ban the sale of new cars with internal combustion engines from 2035, envisages, among other things, the abolition of exemptions cars per year. Lamborghini falls into this category.
–
Will the plug-in hybrid not be problematic in terms of weight? “We have to talk about the power-to-weight ratio, that’s a key element,” Winkelmann avoided direct answers. “It’s about adjustment, brakes, aerodynamics – a lot of things that have to work together, and one of the most important is the power-to-weight ratio,” he added. From this it can be sensed that the successor of the aventador will be difficult, but also very powerful.
–
The mentioned year 2024 is the year when the successor of the current hurricane is to come. That it will be a hybrid is basically clear, but that the current ten-cylinder will survive, less so. Winkelmann did not rule out the use of a smaller engine: “The V12 is our icon, it’s very important to save. The rest, we’ll see. (…) But we will always have engines that will pleasantly surprise our customers and fans. “
–
Lamborghini Stock.
Photo: Lamborghini
The head of the Italian brand also has hopes for synthetic fuels, but predicts that the brand’s fourth model will be an electric car. “It’s not the type of drive, it’s the emissions you create. But at the same time, we are predicting a fourth model that will come in the second half of this decade, and it will be the first purely electric car, “he said. It won’t be an SUV like a urus, but it will be “at least a 2 + 2 configuration, so a car that can be used daily,” Winkelmann revealed the body type of the planned electric car. We will probably not see the materialization of the Estoque sedan concept from 2008.
–
