(This Dec. 16 story has been corrected to repair the timing of Ferrari (NYSE:)’s EV launch in paragraph 2)
SANT’AGATA BOLOGNESE, Italy (Reuters) – Italy’s Lamborghini will all the time make vehicles in Italy because it plans to launch its first electrical mannequin solely in 2029, amid a marketplace for luxurious sports activities vehicles which isn’t ripe for full electrification, CEO Stephan Winkelmann stated on Monday.
Lamborghini, a unit of Volkswagen (ETR:), had beforehand stated its first EV was due in 2028. Italian rival Ferrari will launch its first EV mannequin within the closing quarter of subsequent yr.
“We do not think 2029 is late to have an electric car. We do not think that, in our segment, the market will be ready in 2025 or 2026,” Winkelmann instructed reporters at Lamborghini’s headquarters in Sant’Agata Bolognese, close to the northern Italian metropolis of Bologna.
Lamborghini from this yr has a complete hybrid three-model line-up, with the brand new model of Urus SE SUV, the Revuelto sports activities automotive and the brand new Temerario sports activities automotive, offered in the course of the summer season and which has a value of over 300,000 euros ($315,000), excluding value-added tax.
Winkelmann stated Lamborghini was not in a rush to push for electrification. The corporate is also ready for a clearer regulatory outlook within the European Union, as a evaluate of the bloc’s ban on the sale of recent inside combustion engine vehicles from 2035 is at present scheduled in 2026.
“We think this is the right way to face the future,” he stated. “There are discussions around synthetic fuels and this is an opportunity for our kind of cars”.
Winkelmann, who reiterated there have been no plans for a Lamborghini spin-off from the Volkswagen group, stated Lamborghini vehicles would all the time be produced in Italy.
Requested whether or not he noticed any enterprise influence following the election of Donald Trump as the subsequent U.S. president and his menace of recent tariffs on European-made merchandise, Winkelmann declined to remark however added: “we cannot think of a Lamborghini being manufactured outside of Italy or of Sant’Agata”.
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