Lamborghini Aventador successor packs V-12, 3 electrical motors, and 1,000 hp

Lamborghini on Tuesday offered the primary particulars on its Aventador successor forward of the automotive’s full reveal later this month.

The brand new supercar, code-named LB744, generates 1,000 hp from a complicated plug-in hybrid powertrain combining a newly developed V-12 engine, a brand new 8-speed dual-clutch automated transmission, and three electrical motors.

The output makes the LB744 probably the most highly effective highway automotive in Lamborghini’s 60-year historical past, and the structure of the motors (two on the entrance and one built-in with the rear, transverse-mounted transmission) means the automotive can function in electrical all-wheel-drive guise for brief distances. Reverse can even be dealt with solely by the entrance motors.

There is no shaft connecting the mid-mounted engine with the entrance wheels. As an alternative, they’re pushed purely by electrical energy. It means the engineers had been in a position to make use of the area usually reserved for a transmission tunnel for storage of a 3.8-kwh lithium-ion battery.

In line with Lamborghini, the mixed setup not solely affords extra energy, but in addition round 30% much less CO2 emissions than the Aventador Ultimae, the ultimate model of the Aventador. The setup can be much like what’s present in Ferrari’s SF90 Stradale, though the Ferrari depends on a twin-turbo V-8 because the internal-combustion part.

The V-12 within the LB744, which carries its personal L545 code identify, matches the 6.5-liter displacement of the Aventador however is a completely new design, solely the third ground-up V-12 design in Lamborghini’s historical past. It weighs roughly 480 kilos, or 17 kilos lower than the Aventador’s engine.

The V-12 alone generates a peak 813 hp at 9,250 rpm. Its peak torque of 535 lb-ft arrives at 6,750 rpm. Serving to to extend the ability are a better compression ratio (now 12.6:1 in comparison with 11.8:1 within the Aventador) and improved air circulate within the consumption and exhaust techniques.

On the electrical facet, a pair of oil-cooled axial flux motors on the entrance every generate a peak 148 hp and supply the automotive with torque vectoring on the entrance axle, in addition to power restoration below braking. The rear motor, additionally rated at 148 hp, can provide energy to the rear wheels below sure situations, considered one of which is the aforementioned electrical all-wheel-drive mode. On this mode, the automotive operates with front-wheel drive however can activate the rear motor for all-wheel drive when essential. The third motor additionally recovers power and serves because the engine’s starter motor.

The transmission can be a brand new design for Lamborghini. It was developed in-house and replaces the jerky automated guide that was used within the Aventador. It is going to additionally seem in Lamborhini’s Huracán successor due in late 2024.

It is each lighter (425 kilos together with the rear motor) and sooner shifting than the 7-speed dual-clutch transmission within the Huracán, because of some intelligent expertise. There are two shafts (one for the odd gears and one for the even gears) that each connect with the identical rotor, versus the three-shaft design usually present in dual-clutch transmissions. The motive force additionally has the flexibility to drop down a number of gears below braking just by holding the left shift paddle, a function Lamborghini calls steady downshifting.