Wild 1500kW Lamborghini Lanzador EV shapes up

Lamborghini's first-ever EV will come with an incredible 1500kW multi-motor powertrain and a 980-volt architecture, but the super-crossover won't arrive until 2029.

During the Volkswagen Group’s annual media conference, CEO Oliver Blume, confirmed the first details of the production-spec Lamborghini Lanzador and revealed it would be based on an all-new platform that would go onto be shared with Porsche, Audi and Bentley.

According to Blume, the new underpinnings would help introduce the Group’s latest EV tech that “will allow for up to 2000hp (1491kW) and 980 volts”, but the new tech would feature a "very specific set-up for Lamborghini".

The latter 980-volt electrical architecture beats the 900-volt offered by some Chinese EVs and the 926-volt electric architecture offered by Lucid, hinting the Lanzador EV could instantly become the world’s fastest charging EV, with a 10-80 per cent top-up potentially taking less than 10 minutes with a next-gen 500kW charger.

With reports suggesting the Lanzador will be built in Italy, it’s not known if Lamborghini will develop its own electric motors, or if it will simply source them from Volkswagen.

Revealed back at the Monterey Car Week in the US, the 2+2 Coupe-SUV Lamborghini EV originally came with a 1MW powertrain and a big enough battery to cover 500km, but it’s now thought that won’t be enough punch to fend off rivals in 2029.

There’s no word on range but engineers might be tempted to use a smaller fast-charging battery and sacrifice some range for a significantly lighter kerbweight.

Since its unveil, Lambo bosses have ruled-out fake engine noise for its first EV and said that it will come with a more futuristic spaceship soundscape.

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