Lambo’s big-selling SUV will change to EV energy by the top of the last decade, the corporate’s boss Stephan Winkelmann advised journalists
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by Chris Chilton
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It’s not hyperbole to say that the Urus has reworked Lamborghini’s fortunes. The SUV was the suitable automobile on the proper time for Lamborghini, and to verify it continues to be, the mannequin is allegedly about to endure a significant shakeup that may see Lamborghini introduce a PHEV powertrain, and drop all different engine choices.
That’s in keeping with feedback made by Winkelmann to Autocar, which stories {that a} facelifted, PHEV-only Urus will probably be launched in 2024 within the first a part of a two-stage electrification plan. The SUV will then be reinvented as a pure EV 5 years later, launching a yr after the agency’s first totally electrical car, a still-unnamed crossover-style GT.
It was no secret that Lamborghini was engaged on a plug-in Urus. We’ve seen spy pictures of such autos, and Lamborghini has already adopted plug-in energy for its Aventador successor, the Revuelto, and can revisit the tech for subsequent yr’s Huracan alternative. However we imagined that the PHEV powertrain could be launched as an choice, not made obligatory.
The excellent news is that the Urus PHEV will nonetheless characteristic a V8, and electrical help will solely make it extra highly effective than the 641 hp (650 PS) V8 within the present SUV. The powertrain will in all probability be a model of the one within the Porsche Cayenne Turbo S E-Hybrid, however uprated to virtually 800 hp (811 PS), although in fact, the Urus’s already chunky curb weight will get even greater.
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Winkelmann didn’t sound massively optimistic about the way forward for combustion engines, claiming that emissions rules made it expensive to construct compliant ICE automobiles and that even when areas didn’t introduce outright bans, increased taxes would drive consumers away from combustion fashions in the direction of EVs.
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“I strongly consider that after 2035, laws will probably be so excessive for ICEs that it is going to be virtually not possible for those with excessive displacement like ours to be compliant,” he mentioned.
The CEO additionally claimed that the event of artificial fuels was going to be extra helpful for holding present automobiles working than giving automakers the liberty to create new combustion fashions. However on the similar time, Winkelmann mentioned the corporate had some respiration area earlier than having to resolve whether or not to go all-in on pure electrical energy for the successors to the Revuelto and 2024’s Huracan alternative, which received’t arrive till years after the 2028 electrical GT.
Winkelmann described the deliberate fourth mannequin as having extra floor clearance than a daily GT and nice visibility, however nonetheless immediately recognizable as a Lamborghini. He additionally claimed it might be powered by “high-performance batteries that no person else has.”
