Italian supercar maker Lamborghini introduced Tuesday that it’ll launch a fully-electric automotive within the second half of the last decade.

Presenting a metamorphosis program, Lamborghini, owned by German agency Volkswagen, laid out “a roadmap to the decarbonization of future Lamborghini fashions and of the Sant’Agata Bolognese website,” its manufacturing facility headquarters in Italy.

It stated the following 10 years will see the corporate transition to producing hybrid fashions earlier than it launches a fully-electric automotive within the latter half of the 2020s.

“Lamborghini’s electrification plan is a newly-plotted course, crucial within the context of a radically-changing world, the place we wish to make our contribution by persevering with to scale back environmental affect by concrete tasks,” Automobili Lamborghini’s President and CEO Stephan Winkelmann stated in an announcement Tuesday.

“Our response is a plan with a 360 diploma method, encompassing our merchandise and our Sant’Agata Bolognese location, taking us in direction of a extra sustainable future whereas all the time remaining trustworthy to our DNA.”

Lamborghini’s roadmap contains of three phases; the primary of which, for 2021 and 2022, sees the corporate stay targeted on combustion engine fashions with two new vehicles within the V12 mannequin line-up to be introduced this yr.

The second part would replicate a “hybrid transition” that might happen by the tip of 2024. “In 2023 Lamborghini will launch its first hybrid collection manufacturing automotive, and by the tip of 2024 the complete vary will likely be electrified,” the corporate stated.

“Efficiency and the genuine Lamborghini driving expertise will stay the main target of the corporate’s engineers and technicians in growing new applied sciences, and the applying of light-weight carbon fiber supplies will likely be essential in compensating for weight on account of electrification. The corporate’s inside goal for this part is to scale back product CO₂ emissions by 50% by the start of 2025,” it added.

The hybrid transition would contain what it known as “unprecedented funding” with greater than 1.5 billion euros ($1.83 billion) allotted over 4 years, the biggest funding in Lamborghini’s historical past and one which it stated would happen throughout “a interval of profound transformation that affects the entire automotive business.”

Its third and closing part would see Lamborghini launch its first fully-electric Lamborghini within the second half of the last decade.

“The second a part of the last decade will likely be devoted to full-electric autos,” the corporate stated, with technological innovation on this part “oriented in direction of making certain outstanding efficiency, and positioning the brand new product on the prime of its phase.”