The Revuelto is a 1,001 horsepower hybrid car
The Revuelto: The Lamborghini Vision of a New Paradigm and A Driver-Assist System
The Revuelto “defines a new paradigm” for Lamborghini, in addition to charting a “near future” course for high-performance brands. Or as the company’s CEO Stephan Winkelmann puts it, “Revuelto was born to break the mold.”
It is small enough for the petrol engine to power it up in about six minutes, or through the regenerative braking on the front wheels. It’s the first time an electric motor will provide four-wheel drive for a vehicle.
The electric motor on the front is oil-cooled. These are more compact than radial flux ones and have more power and Torque density. Each motor produces 110 kW and weighs 18.5 kilograms. Although the Revuelto has an electric range of about eight miles and can be driven silently in Città mode, Lamborghini is clear that the tech exists primarily to heighten the car’s performance and high-speed dynamics. The Revuelto’s total power output is an eye-catching 1,001 bhp, thanks to the third e- motor above the gearbox. The top speed is 217 mph. There’s no word yet on emissions or fuel consumption.
That has a lot of big talk, but it is backs it up with performance. The coupe can accelerate from zero to 100kph (zero to 62mph) in 2.5 seconds, which is 0.3 seconds quicker than the Aventador it replaces. That does not mean a lot to your average person, but it speaks volumes if you can shave off every tenth of a second. The Revuelto also has a top speed of more than 350kph (218mph).
The design of the vehicle is inspired by the world of flight, with sculpted surfaces encompassed by a couple lines that start at the front and end at the hexagonal-shaped exhausts.
And because this is The Verge, let’s talk tech. There are three displays on the passenger side, an 8.4-inch center display, and a 12.3-inch digital cockpit. The Revuelto will also be the first Lamborghini to implement a full advanced driver-assist system, powered by cameras, radar, and other sensors. This includes active lane departure warnings, adaptive cruise control, lane change warnings, and rear cross-traffic alerts.
Using Lamborghini’s Unica mobile app, Revuelto owners can monitor the car’s status, including the fuel level, battery charge, electric range, and where it’s parked. The Unica app is compatible with the Apple Watch and lets you conduct a range of remote operations, such as locking andunlock doors, sounding the horn, and turning the car’s lights on.
Lamborghini unveils a new supercar with a charging port: the Revuelto, the Aventador, and Huracán
The price of the Revuelto will break your bank account and cost more than $500,000, according to Winkelmann.
With the Aventador set to become the plug-in hybrid Revuelto, the remaining models we have yet to see are the hybrid versions of the Huracán and Urus, which we’re likely to get later this year in August and October.
Closing out a half century of purely gasoline-powered V12 cars going back to the brand’s earliest models, Luxury Italian sports car designer Lamborghini has unveiled its first supercar with a charging port.
The price of the car is still not known, but it will offer a wide range of driving sensations. There are 13 different drive modes. Front-wheel-drive low-speed cruising will be fully electric, while high-powered aggressive track driving will employ all available power from the V12 engine and the electric motors.
The automaker, founded in Sant’Agata Bolognese Italy in 1963 and still headquartered there, is not resting on its laurels: Everything in this car is new, including the gas engine which was developed specifically for this new car, Lamborghini said in its announcement.
Even the engine’s orientation within the car is different. In past Lamborghini V12 models, starting with the Countach, the engine’s power was sent toward the front of the cars and the transmission was between the two seats. In newer models, engine power was put to all four wheels through spinning driveshafts.
The engine points towards the rear to make room for battery packs. This unusual arrangement solves a puzzle: allowing the car, despite the addition of heavy batteries, to maintain ideal weight distribution with 44% of the car’s weight on the front wheels and 56% on on the back. The power of the gasoline engine and electric motor is only transferred to the Revuelto’s back wheels through an eight-speed transmission.
Two more electric motors power each of the car’s front wheels, providing all-wheel-drive. The front wheels’ two independent motors also enable “torque vectoring,” with differing amounts of power being sent to each front wheel as needed for optimal cornering and traction.
The Reveulto’s batteries can be charged through a plug, like an electric car, providing a certain amount of purely electric driving. However, Lamborghini did not say how long the car could drive on battery power alone.
When the batteries do not have enough power to drive the car, it will operate like a standard hybrid car, with either electric or gasoline power as needed.
Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann: Aspiration-assisted Plug-In Hybrid Hypercar Revuelto
To save weight, the car’s body is made largely from carbon fiber although rear structures are made from aluminum alloys. The new V12 engine is also slightly lighter – by 37.5 pounds – than the engine in the Aventador supercar it’s replacing.
The new plug-in hybrid models will be more expensive than the models they replace, according to CEO Stephan Winkelmann. Prices for the Lamborghini Aventador, the brands last V12 model, started at around half a million dollars.
The V12 Revuelto will be built at the same assembly line as the V10 Huracan replacement. Today, those two models are built on separate production lines inside the same factory building.
The new cars will share more of the same parts than they do now. Still, the sharing of parts and production lines will do little to offset the increased cost of the shift to plugin hybrid power, he said.
Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann claims that the company is on a path marked by four things: sustainability, digitalization, urbanization, and geopolitics. For the carmaker that has provided so much visual fuel for car-obsessed teenagers the world over this past 60 years, that’s quite the high-speed lane change.
It should be. The Revuelto is a plug-in hybrid, but it repurposes the technology in a manner befitting this extrovert Italian sports-car maker, a company whose annual turnover passed the €2 billion mark last year for the first time. A sleight-of-hand designed to distance it from the hybrid norm, the Revuelto is said to be a high performance electric vehicle. Performance is up by 30 percent, emissions reduced by the same amount. But this particular hybrid is dedicated to expanding the car’s dynamic bandwidth as much as it is tidying up its emissions or reframing a V-12 hypercar in a more socially acceptable way.
At its heart sits a naturally aspirated 6.5-liter V-12 aided by three electric motors, two of which are mounted on the front axle, the third integrated into the all-new eight-speed dual-clutch transmission. The e-motor on the ’box also acts as the starter motor and a generator. The ICE has been upgraded to provide 814 brakehp at 9,250rpm thanks to several revisions, it has been turned 180 degrees in the engine bay and is 17 pounds lighter.
The central tunnel now houses a 3.8-kWh lithium-ion battery pack, which consists of 108 water-cooled pouch cells. To give you some idea how small this pack is, the car can be fully charged in just 30 minutes on a 7-kW power supply, but the battery pack is more likely to be replenished under regenerative braking. The old-guard motoring world may not yet be ready for the sight of a Lamborghini hypercar attached to an electric umbilical cord, while EV evangelists may well feel this is too timid a conversion.
All-wheel Drive of the Revuelto e-Axle and its All-Wheel Drive, Prototype Spectroscopy
The e-axle is ready for the full 1,000-plus bhp and all-wheel drive. The rear axles are active too. The Revuelto will be friendlier and more flexible than its predecessors as the pace increases. Lamborghini has resisted calling it a “drift” mode, but in Sport mode, with the stability control dialed back, the new car will apparently indulge the more competent driver in delirious slides.
