Lamborghini’s first fully electric vehicle will not be an off-road capable SUV as some rumors had previously posited, but will instead be a four-seat grand tourer, according to the automaker’s CEO, Stephan Winkelmann.
“It’s going to be a new body style, because what is missing in the lineup today is a GT 2+2, and I think this would be a good add-on to the two super-sports cars and the SUV,” Winkelmann told Motor1 recently. The executive then specified that the vehicle will not have any off-road aspirations, unlike the Urus, Lamborghini’s current SUV.
Rumors once suggested that the new vehicle might be another SUV, after the automaker said it would have more ground clearance than its supercars. It doesn’t take much to have more ground clearance than a Huracán, though, so it seems all that meant was that the EV would be better suited to local roads than racetracks.
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Lamborghini Estoque super sedan introduced at the 2008 Paris Motor Show
Indeed, Lamborghini’s chief technology officer, Rouven Mohr, said earlier this year that combustion engines with hybrid electrical assistance are still the best option for supercars, not fully electric vehicles.
“On the super sports car, we believe that at the moment it is not the right time, and also probably the next five, six years, it’ll be not the right time because the super sports cars, we want to avoid this additional weight,” Mohr said in January. “We want to avoid the performance depending strongly on the state of the charge of the battery and on the temperature.”
However, he clarified that there was still a place in the market for an electric Lamborghini, which he described as a “user-oriented” car. Meanwhile, last summer, Winkelmann referred to the vehicle as “less performance-only, more daily drivable.” He also stated that the car would be a 2+2 at that time (a body style with which the brand is familiar), but his latest comments are the clearest yet that the EV will not be an SUV.
Unfortunately, much remains a mystery about the new vehicle, and much likely remains to be decided, since it is expected to launch in 2028. The vehicle will be a major step in Lamborghini’s electrification ambitions, as it plans to electrify every one of its models by 2024 and to halve its CO2 emissions by 2025.
