The Pininfarina B0 (B Zero) is an electric car concept developed by Pininfarina in partnership with Bollore, and was unveiled at the 2008 Paris Motor Show. Earlier this month, Automobili Pininfarina, the Italian brand with headquarters in Monaco and design studios in Turin, unveiled their luxurious electric hypercar called Battista at the 2019 Geneva Motor Show.
Its fully electric GT hypercar, which is set to become the most powerful vehicle designed and built in Italy, will offer performance levels unattainable in any street-legal sports car using current combustion technology, Italian luxury automaker Automobili Pininfarina wrote in a statement. The Battista runs on a liquid-cooled, T-shaped lithium/manganese/nickel 120kWh battery pack, emitting zero emissions, while experts touted that it is faster than current Formula One cars. The Battista, named for the firms founder, Battista Pinin Farina, produces almost twice as much energy as a Formula One racing car, with zero emissions.
Boasting 500km range on a single charge thanks to 120kWh battery that powers four electric motors, one on each wheel, Automobili Pininfarinas Battista can be recharged between 20% and 80% in less than 25 minutes. Its first vehicle uses four electric motors — one at each wheel — creating a total output of 1400kW, the equivalent of 1900hp. The Battista has one motor per wheel, with 120kW battery packs located down the center of the Battista, but primarily located in a reversed pyramid behind the cockpit.
The Battista has an impressive 1800hp from its electric motors and is covered with exposed carbon fiber to give it a stealthy, though not entirely unsubtle, appearance. The Battista will feature a fully-carbon-fibre monocoque that is incredibly stiff, with structural designs that have never been attempted on any racing car.
The Battista will feature a 120-kWh battery pack supplied by Rimac Automobili, the Croatian company that produced the Rimac Concept_One and Concept_Two electric hypercars. Two electric hypercars, the Battista by Automobili Pininfarina and the Nevera by Rimac The Battista by Automobili Pininfarina The Nevera by Rimac, both entered series production. German luxury electric vehicle maker Automobili Pininfarina, which traces its origins as Automobili Pininfarina back to Italian automotive design firm and coachbuilder Pininfarina, and Croatian automotive maker Rimac have both announced two electric hypercars that have entered serial production, respectively.
The Automobili Pininfarina Battista Automobile Pininfarina, the worlds first electric hyperGT, made its production debut on California roads. As part of the jam-packed schedule of events surrounding Monterey Car Week, the first outing on the Battistas roads marks the start of a new chapter in the history of Automobili Pininfarina. The new hyper-electric vehicle will be the first vehicle built by the famous Italian design house.
Having designed 64 Ferraris since 1952, it is not surprising that Pininfarinas Battista is a carbon fibre-bodied hypercar, though it is built using modified versions of the Rimacs powertrain and carbon fibre structures. The Battista shares the same design principles of form and function working harmoniously that are seen on Classic Automobili Pininfarina cars dating from 1947s Cisitalia 202, which was probably the first modern sports car, and over 100 Ferraris, with this decades latest model being its latest. If you even have some knowledge about cars, you know the Battista is Italys leading carrozzeria, visualiser and outfitter for practically every major Ferrari (until The Prancing Horse took over the destiny of design back home in 2011), not to mention innumerable other sports cars and less exotic, yet just as significant, but just as significant, car. That is why it is impressive that, this week, its first vehicle comes from Italian car-design-fitter-turned-manufacturer Pininfarina.
Its first car also is expected to run for around 280 miles on a single charge, Pininfarina says, although frankly, it is hard to imagine anybody driving that thing with sufficient care ever coming anywhere near that. Pininfarina announced a Pininfarina Battista would begin production in August, a day later. Incidentally, the electric motors for its GT supercar, all-electric, are supplied by Croatian manufacturer Rimac, who itself has started producing their all-electric Hypercar, the Nevera. Croatian manufacturer Rimac. The other main new entry, Automobili Pininfarina, uses Rimac drive systems in its 1.99 million euro Pininfarina Battista.
Pininfarinas workshop completed the first production model, then took it to Monaco for a first customer test drive, then shipped the car to the US, where it will be featured at the Monterey Motor Week. So far, Pininfarina-Automobile has shown just teaser images of the vehicle, revealing the car low and the wheels pushing off of its corners (a design allowed by using an electric motor rather than a engine and drive shaft) and not much else. What we do know is that the new electric concept design will be based on the skateboard platform, which has become a common sight in the EV industry.
Automobili Pininfarina promises the new electric design concept will be more than a concept, it will be the first in a whole family of cars to be built around a single platform. The latest automaker that promises a super-fast, luxury, rare, expensive electric car is Pininfarina-Automobile. Ferrari is set to launch its first all-electric vehicle in 2025, with 40% of models going battery-only later in the decade, and VWs Lamborghini brand has promised an all-electric model this decade. Its fully electric GT supercar is available now either with Pura styling, or in a body-design package Furiosa.
