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“We still need to decide whether we are going full electric, the decision we took some years ago, or seeing whether in the new environment this should also be a plug-in hybrid”, said Mr Winkelmann.
The new environment he referred to is a perceived waning of interest in electric cars among high-end buyers.
“Today enthusiasm for electric cars is going down”, he explained. “We see a huge opportunity to stay with internal combustion engines and a battery system much longer than expected”.
Continuing to use internal combustion engines for another 10 years, he said, would be “paramount for the success of the company”. Customers, he insisted, still hankered after the noise and fury of a conventional motor.
“This is something they want, they still want the sound and the emotion of an internal combustion engine”, he said.
It’s an approach that contrasts with that of Lamborghini’s Italian arch-rival Ferrari, which is pushing ahead with its own plans for a first all-electric car.
The aptly-named Elettrica is due to be unveiled next year, though the company showed off some key components at its Capital Markets Day earlier this month.
It will be sold alongside conventional and hybrid models.
Ferrari chief executive Benedetto Vigna said it would have driving traits that were “unique in the heart, in the soul of our clients.”