Electric Lamborghini Supercar Still A Long Way Off, Says Company Boss

By the end of this year, Lamborghini will have a fully electrified lineup, with the Revuelto, Urus SE and soon-to-be-revealed Huracan successor all featuring plug-in hybrid drivetrains. In another few years, the company will add a fourth model to its lineup in the form of its first full EV, the Lanzador crossover.

Despite going all-in on electrified cars, though, Lamborghini’s CEO, Stephan Winkelmann, reckons it’ll be a long time yet before Sant’Agata launches an EV with a proper supercar silhouette.

Speaking to Automotive News Europe, Winkelmann said that fully electric supercars “aren’t something that is selling so far,” and that the company “will have to see down the road if and when this is going to happen.”

Winkelmann’s comments come amid a period of general cautiousness around going all-in on EV development in the car industry as a whole, but especially among high-end supercar manufacturers, whose wealthy clients are increasingly interested in the emotional elements of a car rather than its raw performance. He believes that EVs are already on a par with combustion supercars in terms of numbers, but are still a way off being able to reproduce the emotion tied to the soundtracks of the company’s V10s and V12s.

This echoes similar comments by Mate Rimac, who recently said a combustion-powered Rimac could happen in the face of faltering demand for electric hypercars. Meanwhile, Lambo’s long-time rival from across the Po Valley, Ferrari, is well advanced with the development of its first full EV, but its CEO Benedetto Vigna has said he doesn’t believe the combustion engine will ever fully disappear from its cars.

As the car industry faces ever greater pressure to reduce overall emissions, Lamborghini is currently investing in other ways to do this. By 2030, it says it will have overhauled its supply chain to slash 40 per cent of its current emissions, and is also closely investigating synthetic fuels, which are currently being developed by sibling company Porsche and may end up exempt from the EU’s 2035 ban on combustion engines.