Need for Speed
PININFARINA BATTISTA: THE WORLD’S FIRST PURE ELECTRIC LUXURY HYPER GT REVEALED • A revolution in automotive performance, design, and technical collaboration is revealed with the Pininfarina Battista, the world’s first luxury electric hyper-performance GT. Delivering on a longheld Pininfarina family dream and a new target of zero emissions with extreme power, the Battista is the first solely Pininfarina-badged car and delivers unprecedented performance. The trio of beautiful Battista design models presented as part of the hypercar’s World Premiere in Geneva represents a new pinnacle of desirability for electric cars, stylishly resolving the paradox of beauty and performance in a pure, elegant, and timeless Italian design.
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When it arrived in 2020, the Battista became the most powerful car ever designed and built in Italy and it will deliver a level of performance that is unachievable today in any road-legal sports car featuring internal combustion engine technology. Faster than a current Formula 1 race car in its 0 -100 km/h sub-two second sprint, and with 1,900 hp and 2,300 Nm torque on tap, the Battista will combine extreme engineering and technology in a zero-emissions package.
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The year 2020 was also the 90th anniversary of the legendary Pininfarina SpA design house, which has taken the design brief for the Battista and produced a classic Pininfarina: an elegant form that seamlessly integrates the car’s innovative engineering solutions to deliver unprecedented performance. It is the same design principle of form and function in harmony as seen
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Pininfarina Battista arrived in 2020 as the most powerful road-legal car ever designed and built in Italy 1,900 hp/ 2,300 Nm torque with zero emissions thrusts Battista to 100 km/h in less than two seconds yet is capable of 450 kms on one charge with a 120 kWh Li-ion battery pack Paolo Pininfarina says “Battista realises a dream” as his family name adorns the first in a future range of beautiful, innovative, zero-emissions electric cars Evocative design meets unprecedented performance as Automobili Pininfarina CEO Michael Perschke presents the first car to make the world love electric vehicles Battista’s all-electric powertrain delivers performance unachievable with an ICE powertrain and an access-all-city-areas ability for future zero-emissions zones PURA design philosophy – Purity, Beauty, Rarity – encapsulates Pininfarina car designs as Automobili Pininfarina Design Director Luca Borgogno channels their spirit into Battista No more than 150 Battistas will be individually hand-crafted at the Pininfarina SpA atelier in Turin, Italy. Nearly 90 years of legendary Pininfarina cars referenced in three Battista specifications, united by elegant design and as beautiful as the promise of extreme performance World-class engineers and designers recruited and team up with leading technology and design partners to deliver a unique performance car Automobili Pininfarina’s sustainability vision highlighted by Battista as an inspiration for EV desirability at the pinnacle of performance and luxury cars
