- The brand first started looking into a high-performance EV back in 2018.
- Pagani isn’t concerned with horsepower figures and is focused on keeping its cars lightweight.
Paganis are like rolling pieces of jewelry, filled with mechanical mastery, and in the case of the Huayra and Utopia, they are powered by a ferocious 6.0-liter twin-turbocharged V12. However, the brand’s marketing director and son of Horacio Pagani, Christopher Pagani, says the brand continues to work on an EV, despite previously pausing development on the car.
Pagani first dipped its toe into the idea of an EV in 2018, but last year, it said it had no plans to launch an electric model in the near future, citing concerns with battery technology and charging speeds. However, while recently speaking at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Christopher Pagani acknowledged the marque is still interested in an EV.
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“We loved working on the electric car, and we still are working on this project, so it’s not a closed chapter for us,” Pagani revealed. Christopher added that after having meetings with its dealer network worldwide, the Italian brand noted there was “no interest in a [fully electric] Pagani hypercar,” but said it was a “fun project to build.”
While the brand spent many years toying with the idea of an EV, it never got to the point of building a full-scale prototype and only developed it virtually. The weight of batteries continues to concern it as, according to Christopher, Pagani models are not about “horsepower” or “top speed,” but rather “vehicle dynamics.”
It seems that Pagani will not venture into the world of EVs until it can develop something that meets its standards and brings new innovations.
“We’ve always tried to be innovators […] Zonda was a car with a lot of innovations [in using] composite materials, something that [had] never happened in [an] automotive scenario in the past,” Christopher told CarBuzz. “Huayra was the first twin-turbo hypercar, so we again worked with AMG to develop something that didn’t exist. And Utopia gave us the opportunity to go back [to] the manual gearbox.”
