On 29 March Automobili Lamborghini unveiled Revuelto, the primary tremendous sports activities V12 hybrid plug-in HPEV (Excessive Efficiency Electrified Automobile). The event technique of the automotive has been an thrilling problem each by way of R&D and design: Lamborghini Chief Technical Officer Rouven Mohr and Head of Design Mitja Borkert go behind the scenes of the venture within the first of three brief motion pictures.
“The primary problem has been to switch the Lamborghini DNA into the electrified world,” acknowledged Mohr. “Not solely have we elevated the facility and reduce emissions on the similar time: Revuelto is an total enchancment by way of efficiency. Primarily, that is the primary automotive the place we now have fully modified the structure; on prime of this it’s the first Lamborghini with an electrical four-wheel drive and it additionally encompasses a completely new carbon fiber monocoque and an unprecedented sound.”
“Each floor that we design in a Lamborghini needs to be a high-performance floor,” says Borkert. “One of many parameters was to maintain the standard Lamborghini silhouette and the cabin’s robust inclination: all of the traces embrace the cabin, celebrating the uncovered V12 engine on the similar time. The brand new Revuelto needed to be innately recognizable as a Lamborghini, and from the very first idea we got down to create the Lamborghini of the following decade.”