---
title: "Is Lamborghini Planning an Electric Supercar?"
description: "New report suggests a battery-powered sports car could be in the works, with some help from Porsche."
date: "2016-09-21"
modified: "2016-09-21"
authors:
  - name: "Will Sabel Courtney"
    job_title: "Contributor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/will-sabel-courtney"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/5276/is-lamborghini-planning-an-electric-supercar"
categories:
  - "Car Tech"
  - "Electric Vehicles"
  - "Lamborghini News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Electric Cars"
  - "Lamborghini"
  - "Supercar"
---

# Is Lamborghini Planning an Electric Supercar?

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Just call it the charging bull. A new rumor suggests that [Lamborghini is working on building an electric supercar](<https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/lamborghini-vitola-news-rumors-specs-performance/>)—with a little help from its corporate cousins at Porsche.

According to a new report from the German magazine *Autobild*, the [electric Lamborghini would be a limited-production supercar](<https://www.autobild.de/videos/video-lamborghini-vitola-10723147.html>) built around a modified version of the EV powertrain planned for the upcoming production version of the [Porsche Mission E, which is due to hit the streets in 2019](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/4594/porsches-tesla-fighting-mission-e-will-create-1-400-new-jobs>). Details are purportedly sketchy at this point, but the new EV will reportedly rip from 0 to 60 miles per hour in 2.5 seconds on the way to a top speed of 186 mph.

The report also claims Lamborghini already has a name—or at the least, a working title—for the car: Vitola. Which, according to Google Translate, means diddly-squat in Italian, but translates to “Band” in Spanish, the language Lambo frequently draws from for its traditionally-bullfighting-related nomenclature. (*The Drive*’s cursory Google search turned up no relevant connection between the word “vitola” and the world of bullfighting, but if any knowledgeable reader can figure out a link, please let us know in the comments.)

Lamborghini CEO [Stefano Domenicali has repeatedly vowed the V12 engine will have a place in the carmaker’s vehicles](<https://www.thedrive.com/supercars/4598/lamborghini-vows-not-to-kill-the-v-12>) for the foreseeable future, but that certainly doesn’t rule out the development of electric models alongside those cars. If anything, in an era of ever-increasing corporate fuel economy standards, selling EVs alongside V12s could help guarantee the fuel-guzzling engines stick around for decades to come.

*Pictured: Lamborghini Egoista*

## Author
Will is the former managing editor of *RIDES Magazine* and the former online editor for *0-60 Magazine*. He has worked for *Time Out New York* and *Rolling Stone*, and was the creator of *College Cars Online*, the first automotive blog specifically targeted at college students and young professionals.

### Author social links  
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