Manuel Nathan
It has almost 1.900 horsepower (1.874) and 1.696 lb-ft of torque. It is supposed to go 0 to 60 in 1.9 seconds, 100 MPH in 4.3 seconds, and 186 MPH in 11.8 seconds. It crushed the quarter-mile with a time of 9.1 seconds and the top speed on this beast of 218 MPH. And there are no turbochargers or pistons to be found, this being one of the stars of this year’s Geneva auto show.
The design of the Battista at a first glance looks like a Ferrari 488 rework, this being understandable, the main reason being the companies collaborations in the past.
The company claims they will only build 150 of these in the future and every car is going to be exclusively designed for the buyer.
The lines of the car define air channels that are running along both sides of the glasshouse, just like the ones on the McLaren 720S, and the fact that this is a full-electric car makes it weird for it to need oxygen while there’s no combustion happening inside whatsoever, but the oxygen is not for the missing engine, but for the five radiators located around the car that help keep the temperatures down on the T-shaped 120 kWh lithium manganese-nickel battery pack, and for all four liquid-cooled Rimac electric motors.
The company claims that the Pininfarina Battista will have a range of about 280 miles between charges, but the mileage may vary on your driving style. Rimac claims that the battery pack has enough juice and the thermal stability for two full-power laps of the Nürburgring Nordschleife with almost no performance loss. And the beast should finish the laps quite quickly as the overall weight is around 4.500 pounds despite the heavy battery pack. Its weight is not as high as expected because the whole body is made out of carbon fiber along with the carbon-ceramic brakes that come as a standard on it.
The first cars they will sell are expected to arrive in the US in 2020, as Pininfarina’s 90th anniversary.
