Pagani drops EV plan, backs V12
Boss of ultra-exclusive hypercar maker tells us why it is bucking the industry trend
Leaked C10 (above) will make debut soon, following Huayra Codalunga (right)
Pagani has no plans to make electric cars after conducting a four-year study into whether they would be suitable for the brand.
Company boss Horacio Pagani thinks that EVs are too heavy and lack emotion, and that most of the energy they use is not sustainably produced.
He also believes that the climate impact of supercars is so small that their use of an internal combustion engine, however big, is in a broad context largely irrelevant.
“In 2018, I created a team working on fully electric cars,” he told Autocar at the recent Milan Monza motor show.
This team’s primary responsibility was looking at global homologation for Pagani to create such cars, particularly for the US, and for safety, both of which could be delivered. However, “in four years, we never found interest in the supercar market” for an EV, said Pagani.