Bat Out Of Hell!

Pininfarina Battista Electric 1397kw Bugatti Eater

PININFARINA HAS STUNNED THE supercar world with its Battista, an all-electric hypercar promising to be the fastest accelerating road vehicle in the world when it lobs next year.

It will celebrate 90 years since Battista ‘Pinin’ Farina founded the design house. Never heard of his work? There’s a better chance you’ve seen it. His company was in charge of every Ferrari’s exterior design from 1951 to 2017. But rather than pen Maranello’s scarlet red beauties, it wants to thump them with its own cars. This is its first.

The Battista extracts a turbine-like 1397kW/2300Nm from a 120kWh battery pack. It’ll drive each wheel directly through four electric motors and rocket to 100km/h from rest in under two seconds, 300km/h in less than 12 seconds and eventually reach 350km/h. These are times, it says, that’ll give Lewis Hamilton’s F1 car a proper scare.