The Pininfarina Battista is the culmination of a dream by the company founder. Picture: SUPPLIED
The pure-electric Battista’s launch control technology sends it from 0-60mph in 1.79 seconds, closely beating the 1.85 seconds achieved by the Croatian Rimac Nevera — another electric hyper car. The Battista covers the metric 0-100km/h in 1.86 seconds. It also reaches 200km/h from standstill in just 4.79 seconds.
The Battista is powered by four motors with torque vectoring and is the most powerful Italian car ever made, with outputs of 1,417kW and 2,340Nm. It is rated with a top speed of 350km/h, a driving range of up to 476km and is priced from €2.2m . “Perfectly optimised weight distribution and low centre of gravity are at the heart of this result. The combination of bespoke chassis and suspension tuning, tyres proven over many thousands of test miles and delivering unprecedented power enables Battista to be the fastest accelerating road-legal car in the world.