The Revuelto: A High-Performance Lamborghini Electrified, Fully Electric Autonomous Model and its Unica App
The Revuelto is a new paradigm for Lamborghini in addition to sketching out a near future course for high- performance brands. Stephan Winkelmann, the company’s CEO, puts it bluntly, “Revuelto was born to break the mold.”
In 2021, the Italian automaker outlined its electrification plans, which will proceed in two distinct phases over the next decade. By the end of 2024, the company said it would roll out gas-electric hybrid versions of its entire lineup. The first all-electric model of Lamborghini is expected to debut before the end of the decade.
And yeah, this thing’s got a fully electric drive mode. The 3.8kWh battery pack in the central tunnel should be sufficient to power the Revuelto for about 10 km or 6.2 miles, but there are three e-motors and one at each wheel.
And of course, the Revuelto is absolutely riddled with air intake ducts, ensuring an optimal airflow for the combustion engine. The resulting power level is 126 hp per liter, which the company describes as its “highest output in the history of Lamborghini’s 12-cylinder engines.” The maximum Torque is 725Newton-meter at 6,750rpm and I am no scientician.
The design of the car took its inspiration from the world of aerospace, with sculpted surfaces encompassed by two lines that start from the front and include the cabin and engine.
And because this is The Verge, let’s talk tech. The infotainment includes a 12.3-inch digital cockpit, an 8.4-inch center display, and a 9.1-inch display on the passenger side. The Revuelto will also be the first Lamborghini to implement a full advanced driver-assist system, powered by cameras, radar, and other sensors. Lane departure warnings, adaptive cruise control, lane change warnings and rear cross-traffic alert are included.
The Unica app allows users to monitor the car’s status, including fuel level, electric range, and where it’s parked. The Unica app can offer a number of remote operations such as locking and opening doors, making noise with the horn, or turning on the car’s lights. Some of them are compatible with the Apple Watch.
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It will also probably break your bank account, with Winkelmann telling Automotive News Europe that the Revuelto will cost about 500,000 euros, or $542,165.
The plug-in replacement for the less expensive Huracn will be revealed later. The Urus will also be a plug-in hybrid. but, unlike the supercars, will not be replaced with an entirely new mode.
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 car, whose price is as yet undisclosed, will offer driving sensations ranging from loud and viciously punchy to smooth and silent. There are 13 different drive modes. There will be two types of driving: front-wheel drive low-speed cruising and high-powered aggressive track driving.
The new car has a gas engine which was specifically designed for it, and the company still headquartered in Italy, is not resting on its laurels.
The orientation of the engine in 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, the engine power was sent to the back wheels and all four wheels through spinning driveshafts.
In the Revuelto, the engine points towards the back 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 Revuelto has an eight-speed transmission that transfers the power from the gasoline engine and electric motor to the back wheels.
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. The car could drive on the battery alone, but it wasn’t said how long.
Once the batteries no longer have enough power to drive the car on purely electric power, it will operate like a standard hybrid, switching between electric and gasoline power – or a combination of the two – as needed.
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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.
Stephan Winkelmann said that all the new plug-in hybrid models would cost more than the models they replace. The last V12 model of the Lamborghini Aventador costs around half a million dollars.
The V10 Huracan replacement will be built on the same assembly line as the V12 Revuelto once it goes into production. Today, those two models are built on separate production lines inside the same factory building.
The new supercars will also share more parts wtth one another than they do today. Sharing parts and production lines won’t be enough in the long run to offset the shift to hybrid power.
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 plug-in hybrid variant of the sports-car maker’s flagship device is called the Revuelto and it uses the same technology that they use in their cars. In fact, Lamborghini says the Revuelto is an HPEV, for “high performance electrified vehicle,” a semantic sleight of hand designed to distance it from the hybrid norm. Performance is up, emissions are lower. The hybrid is focused on expanding the car’s dynamic bandwidth as much as it is tidying up its emissions or changing its architecture in a more socially acceptable way.
The 6.5- liter V-12 is assisted by three electric motor, two mounted on the fronts and the third integrated into the all new eight speed dual-clutch transmission. The starter motor and generator are powered by the e- motor on the box. The ICE has been made to output 814 brake-horsepower at 9,250rpm by various revisions, with the engine bay turned 180 degrees to accommodate the gear box and e- Motor, and it’s weight has been reduced by 17 percent.
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.
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The e-axle is primed for the full 1,000-plus bhp and ready to drive all-wheel drive. There’s an active rear axle, too. The Revuelto will be friendlier than its predecessors and is promising to be more flexible as the tempo 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.