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NewsBy: Ryan De Villiers
Lamborghini’s CEO has revealed that the firm is hesitant to completely convert to an all-electric fleet while proposing synthetic fuels as a stopgap that would allow an easier transition from its ICE fleet to a possible electric future.
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During an interview with Autocar, Lamborghini’s CEO, Stephan Winkelmann, revealed that he hopes to see the prospect of synthetic fuels fully realised.
“Synthetic-fuelled sports cars would be an easier leap for us, but we have to wait and see what the legislators decide about them, and whether we can get global agreement on their viability.”
Manufacturers like Lamborghini, which produce significantly fewer vehicles compared to manufacturers such as Volkswagen, therefore feeling less pressure from increasingly stringent emissions regulations, can continue to keep their ICE fleets alive.
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“The plan is for our everyday cars (the Urus SUV and new Lanzador GT) to both be fully electric by the end of the decade. For the super sports cars, we will be hybridised; and those cars will live for eight or nine years from now. And so, given that a typical development cycle for a new sports car is four years, we have some time yet to watch and wait until the picture becomes clearer.”
At the forefront of the firm’s alternatively powered aspirations are the real-world Revuelto model and the Lanzador 2+2 concept.
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“For me personally, I have not decided whether I prefer e-fuel or BEV for the super sports cars. For the daily driver models, there’s really no alternative to EV. My doubt on synthetic fuels is only to do with scalability. Come 2035 there will still be billions of cars on the road with combustion engines, and if we want to make the biggest difference to global emissions, the best way to do it, in theory, is with e-fuel. But I’m not convinced that’s viable.”
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