Pininfarina Battista EV with 1,874 BHP unveiled

Automobili Pininfarina has unveiled the Battista - the company’s first electric hypercar. It will be available from 2020 and is claimed to be the most powerful road-legal car designed and built in Italy.

2020 marks the 90th year of the car design house and the Battista pays homage to the founder.

The Battista gets a full-carbon fibre monocoque with carbon fibre body panels and front and rear aluminium crash structure. The electric car gets a front splitter and a full-width air dam, single barrel headlights connected by a white LED light stripe and an S-duct at the front. It gets butterfly doors, dual air intakes on the sides and 21-inch alloy wheels shod in Pirelli P Zero rubber. At the back, it gets an adjustable wing and slim tail lights.

On the inside, the car gets dual information screens on each side of the steering wheel. The left one controls dynamics and performance while the right handles media and navigation. A small slim screen directly in front of the driver displays all the essential data. Dual rotary dials control the 5 drive modes (left) and the transmission (right) respectively.

The Battista is powered by a Rimac-sourced battery pack and quad electric motors, one for each wheel. The power output is rated at 1,874 BHP and 2,300 Nm of maximum torque. The hypercar gets torque vectoring function. It is claimed to have a range of 450 km and the 0-100 km/h and 0-300 km/h times are claimed to be under 2 and 12 seconds respectively. The claimed top speed is over 350 km/h. Braking duties are handled by 6-piston 390mm carbon ceramic disc brakes.

Only 150 Battistas will be made and sold equally in the North America, Europe and the Asia / Middle East regions.

In 2018, Mahindra unveiled the Automobili Pininfarina EV brand which would use the design experience of the design house and the technology from the Mahindra's Formula E team.