Lamborghini CEO: Electric vehicle coming in 2028 could be 4-seat sports car
Lamborghini (VOW.DE) took the opportunity to give its fans a real treat at this year’s New York Auto Show – a new V-10 powered supercar. And its CEO also gave a hint of what the company’s electric future vehicle could look like.
Up first though, is the new Huracán Technica. “It combines performance, lifestyle, and fun to drive,” Lamborghini global CEO Stephan Winkelmann said in an interview with Yahoo Finance from the floor of the show. “It’s a car which is very close to our heart because [of] less drag, more downforce. It has a new front design, redesign, has less weight, so it’s a car which is very easy to drive on the racetrack, but also very good on normal roads.”
The Technica is a variant of Lamborghini’s popular Huracán supercar, which Lamborghini said “saw a huge increase in sales to 2,586 units” in 2021. With updated aero bits and the powerful V-10 engine taken from the Huracán STO road and track weapon, the Technica seems like a strong combination of comfort and power for grand touring.
What the future holds for Lamborghini
While selling gas-powered Huracáns, Aventadors, Urus SUVs is the winning recipe for Lamborghini at the moment, the brand is evolving over the next decade with its Direzion Cor Tauri electrification game plan
“’23 and ’24 will be very important years for Lamborghini. We will hybridize all our lineup, starting with our top-of-the-notch with the follow of the Aventador, with a complete new V-12 engine, plug-in hybrid. Then in ’24, there will be the Urus with a plug-in, and then there will be at the end of ’24, the follow of the Huracán so we will hybridize all our line up in just two years,” Winkelmann says.
Following hybridization of the models by 2024, Direzion Cor Tauri calls for a 50% decrease in carbon dioxide emissions in 2025, then three years later, a new EV model for the brand.
In terms of what it could look like, Winkelmann didn’t outright say it, but a Ferrari (RACE) 812 Superfast competitor could be in the cards.
“We’ll have a body style which is very different but also very recognizable in terms of design of a Lamborghini,” Winkelmann said. “You know that super sports car companies, they have GT cars in their lineup. We had them at the beginning when the company was founded. So this could be an idea where we are heading to a 2+2 with two doors.”
For fans of Lamborghini, there is a lot to look forward to over the next half decade from the Italian supercar-maker.