Lamborghini pulls plug on plans to launch all-electric supercar

[ad_1] The Italian supercar producer Lamborghini has deserted plans to make all-electric autos, and can as an alternative give attention to making plug-in hybrid automobiles, after a drop-off in demand for EVs amongst its rich clientele.

Lamborghini unveiled its first all-electric idea automobile, the Lanzador, in 2023, however it's not planning to place it into manufacturing.

The carmaker’s chief govt, Stephan Winkelmann, instructed the Sunday Occasions that growing EVs risked changing into an “an costly passion” for the model, provided that the “acceptance curve” for battery-powered automobiles amongst its buyer base was getting “near zero”.

Winkelmann stated the Lanzador would get replaced by a plug-in hybrid, which means its vary would consist solely of plug-in hybrids by 2030. Within the meantime, the corporate would proceed to construct combustion engine autos for “so long as doable”, he added.

Lamborghini, which is owned by Volkswagen by way of its subsidiary Audi, delivered a report 10,747 automobiles worldwide in 2025. It reported final month that its outcomes had been buoyed by the “success of the model’s hybridisation technique, which has been met with enthusiasm by Lamborghini prospects throughout the globe”.

Europe stays the corporate’s largest market, adopted by the Americas and Asia Pacific.

It stated its outcomes had been boosted by gross sales of its Revuelto hybrid supercar, which prices at the very least £450,000, and the plug-in hybrid model of its Urus SUV, with costs beginning at about £210,000. These fashions had been joined final yr by the hybrid Temerario, costing upwards of £260,000, which means that hybrid variations are actually obtainable for each mannequin in Lamborghini’s vary.

Winkelmann stated sports activities automobile lovers had didn't discover a “particular emotional connection” with EVs, as a result of they missed the noise of a automobile with an inside combustion engine.

“Investing closely in full-EV growth when the market and buyer base are usually not prepared can be an costly passion, and financially irresponsible in direction of shareholders, prospects [and] to our workers and their households,” he stated.

He added: “Plug-in hybrids provide the most effective of each worlds, combining the agility and low-rev increase of electrical battery know-how with the emotion and energy output of an inside combustion engine.”

The choice to tug the plug on an all-electric automobile marks a big shift within the firm’s inexperienced ambitions.

In 2021, Lamborghini stated it meant to supply solely hybrid electrical supercars by 2024 and introduced a €1.5bn (£1.3bn) funding in hybrid and all-electric autos.