The End Of An Era For Lamborghini Has Come Sooner Than We Expected
Known for exceptional and costly designs, Lamborghini automobiles have a unique look, blazing fast engines, and all-around incredible performance. However, it looks like the famous automaker has recently reached a pivotal turning point: Lamborghini will no longer produce vehicles solely powered by internal combustion engines. As reported by Reuters, Lamborghini has sold out of all of the Huracan and Urus models, which means that there will no longer be any new Lamborghini vehicles that are entirely dependent on fossil fuels.
This isn't to say that Lamborghini will move entirely to electric vehicles, and the company plans on going with plug-in hybrids for its 2024 and 2025 models. Unsurprisingly, Lamborghini made its intentions known way back in 2018 that the company was moving toward electrifying its automobile offerings. Although, it was noted that Lamborghini was waiting on electric vehicle technology to reach a level that would be conducive for the brand to build new models without compromising the brand's speed and refinement.
Lamborghini sees opportunity with electric vehicles
Speaking with Auto Daily, Lamborghini's chief technical officer Rouven Mohr explained how electrifying popular automobiles won't change what the company has long stood for. "Some of our core pillars from the technology point of view are fitting perfectly with the electric world," Mohr clarified. "If we speak about carbon-fiber function integration, battery integration as a structural part — this is something that allows you much more degrees of freedom from the design perspective in the sense of aerodynamics."
Mohr stated that Lamborghini has tons of plans to compensate for the discontinuation of purely combustion engine drivetrains, and stated that the driving behavior of Lamborghini today is something that the company is very much in tune with for its future manufacturing.
Thanks to a fully-electric drivetrain standard, Mohr explained that future Lamborghini vehicles will have active systems for wheel speed control; technology that isn't possible with current combustion engines. Though there will no longer be any new Lamborghini cars that run entirely off gasoline, it sounds like Lamborghini has every intention of remaining at the upper echelons of the automobile industry.
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