The purely electric Lamborghini will arrive in the second half of the decade. His concept already has a clear idea.
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Lamborghini’s management emphasizes that internal combustion engines remain key to the Italian carmaker, yet even a factory with a bull in its emblem cannot avoid electrification. It will be gradual and culminate in the second half of the decade, when the first series-powered electric Lamborghini arrives. The form is still unknown, but it already has a clear concept in the heads of management.
Lamborgnihi continues to work on the final design of his first electric car, says Stephan Winkelmann, president and CEO of Sant ‘Agata. At the same time, however, he admits that management’s ideas lean towards a four-door model suitable for everyday use.
However, Winkelmann did not specify whether it was an SUV or a gran turismo. In the past, however, Sant ‘Agata has voiced that it would be more of an electric GT, paying tribute to Lamborghini for its origins or the famous Espada, a four-seater granism produced in the 1960s and 1970s.
In any case, according to the brand’s previously revealed plans, the electric car will become the fourth model line, so it should not replace any of today’s models. It is supposed to be mentioned sometime in the second half of the decade.
The arrival of a purely electric car will be the culmination of the electrification of the Lamborghini portfolio. The year 2022 will be the last when the basic offer of the brand will include exclusively models with an internal combustion engine (specialties with limited production such as Sián and Countach LPI 800-4 are already hybrids).
In 2023 will come the first hybrid, which will be Aventador’s successor, which is already being tested. He will continue to use the twelve-cylinder fork, but supplemented with an electric motor. In 2024, the hybrid replacement for Huracán should make its debut, but it will probably rearm from a ten-cylinder to an electrified eight-cylinder. By 2024, Urus, or perhaps his successor, should see a hybrid drive.
By the way, Lamborghini is preparing four new products this year. One of them will be facelift Urusu, the second then off-road Huracán Sterrato. The remaining could be a sharper variant of Urus and another derivative of Huracan.
Lamborghini, however, continues to trust internal combustion engines and intends to use them in his cars as long as possible. This is supposed to be helped by the possibility of refueling synthetic fuels, which are currently being worked on.
On the plus side, the Italian carmaker has enough money for an electrified future. It can use the stock of components of the VW Group, of which it is a part, and the company is also doing commercially. Despite industrial difficulties with a shortage of production components, 2021 was the best year in the brand’s history, with 8,405 cars delivered the most in history and a year-on-year increase of 13%. Lamborghini is investing over 1.5 billion euros (about 37 billion crowns) in gradual electrification.
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