Every new Lambo will be a plug-in hybrid or full-electric vehicle as of next year
Lamborghini has confirmed that 2022 will be the last year that its line-up will consist exclusively of internal combustion-powered vehicles as the Raging Bull brand prepares to start its transition to electrification.
Plug-in hybrid (PHEV) technology will be the fabled Italian brand’s mainstay for the coming years, with both the Lamborghini Aventador and Lamborghini Huracan successors – due in 2023 and 2024 respectively – previously confirmed to be making the jump ahead of the emergence of the first battery-electric Lambo’s reveal in 2028.
Little is known about this mystery EV, however, executives have started to drip feed some small but key snippets of intel.
“If we look at what is missing today in the Lamborghini line-up, then it’s the 2+2; the GT idea,” Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann recently told Australian media.
“We would like to combine this with a better ground clearance so to have a more modern approach and a body style which is a bit different to what we have seen so far.”
Generous ground clearance isn’t usually a hallmark of a high-end grand tourer, however, the move could be a well-founded one given the current SUV and crossover crazes currently sweeping across the industry.
Lamborghini Huracan STO
No other details have been revealed yet and it will likely be a long time before we get much more, let alone a first glimpse at the concept art.
Nevertheless, Lamborghini is embracing electrification with both hands as the stringent Euro7 emissions regulations loom.
“We see around the world that not only because, in terms of sustainability and in terms of social responsibility, the rules are putting everybody to the position that there is no way out [of electrification],” Winkelmann said.
Lamborghini Countach
“The new generation [of customers] are not even sitting at the table if the sustainability subject is not solved.”
This is why all new Lamborghinis produced as of next year will feature PHEV technology, something that’s also been confirmed for the soon to be facelifted Lamborghini Urus SUV.
In a separate interview with Car Magazine, Winkelmann revealed there would be at least four new internal combustion vehicles comprising two new Lamborghini Huracan variants and two revolving around the Lamborghini Urus SUV.
At this stage, however, it seems anyone hoping for a reimagined Miura or Diablo in the same vein as the reborn Countach LP800-4 will be bitterly disappointed as there are no current plans to offer another reborn classic.
“To think that if you have too big rear-view mirrors, you’re running short of ideas for the future so you have to have a big windshield to look into the future and this is much more important,” Winkelmann told carsales.
“The Countach [LP800-4] was the exercise really to celebrate a car which created the DNA of Lamborghini and changed also the way of one generation to look into super-sports cars and I think this was a good moment to celebrate, but I think the future is about innovation in every sense.”
Lamborghini Sterrato
Keyword: Final call for internal combustion Lamborghini models