{"id":338941,"date":"2018-06-07T17:38:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T17:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?p=338941"},"modified":"2024-03-11T00:03:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T00:03:58","slug":"electric-lamborghini-maybe-next-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/electric-lamborghini-maybe-next-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Lamborghini? 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The hard part is that roaring V10 and V12s provide something that electric cars don&#8217;t: sound which can convert to a supercar&#8217;s &#8216;soul&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Is this nonsense or do you feel that a supercar should emote something to the driver to be connected? Is brute force enough to provide that emotion?<\/p>\n<p>Let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So just when we thought we&#8217;d have a competitor to the Tesla Model S, we get terrible news. Auto News reports that Lamborghini has no plans to go full electric because battery technology today can&#8217;t provide the power that Lamborghini customers expect.\u00a0Maurizio Reggiani, Director Research and Development, says, \u201cOur target is to deliver a super sports car, and these specifications don\u2019t exist with a battery package in terms of energy and power&#8221; Right now, Lamborghini is waiting on vast improvements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":338944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,255],"tags":[429,86],"class_list":["post-338941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lamborghini","category-news","tag-news","tag-lamborghini"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Electric Lamborghini? 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