The global electrification wave is vast. Car companies do not launch electric cars and are not too good to integrate into the circles of friends of other families. But there are always exceptions. Recently, the supercar brand Pagani from Italy announced that it will abandon the development of electric cars and continue to produce supercars with Mercedes-AMG V12 engines.
It is worth noting that Pagani has been on the road to developing an electric car for four years and the reason for giving up sounds a bit unbelievable: the battery pack was too heavy and never met the supercar’s need for its lightweight.
According to Pagani’s official sources, it found that the electric supercar needed 600 kg of batteries, which is more than half of Huayra R’s total weight (1,070 kg).
Horacio Pagani, the company’s founder, said the battery was too heavy for a supercar and lacked driving emotion (handling performance).
Horacio Pagani also bought a Tesla to get a better insight into electric cars, but it was never to his liking.
He said that an electric supercar should be more than mere acceleration, which is already easily achievable, and that the immediate challenge is to make the electric car exude the same emotion (handling performance) as a gasoline-powered car, but with such a heavy battery, this is currently impossible.
For this practical reason, Pagani will continue to use the V12 engine from Mercedes-Benz, and it won’t have to be subject to emissions regulations: the European Union announced earlier this month that it will extend the deadline for supercar makers to switch to zero-emission powertrains from 2029 to 2035.
