Pininfarina begins testing the 1,900-horsepower Battista on the Nardò track

A crop of multi-million-dollar electric hypercars is emerging in the industry’s fantasyland and creeping towards production. Pininfarina announced its 1,900-horsepower Battista has successfully completed its first round of high-speed testing, that is like bootcamp for prototypes, around the Nardò track situated in Italy.

Although technology has become mind-bogglingly advanced, and it’s possible to test a powertrain without building it, Pininfarina explained there isn't any replacement for real-world evaluations. Instead of putting test pilots inside a prototype cobbled together with various odds and ends, it assigned them a completely assembled model equipped with roughly exactly the same group of features that buyers will get when deliveries begin. Going through the trouble of creating a finished car is a good way to test even basic features, such as the power windows and the speakers.

Engineers many userful stuff here while lapping Nardò. The data they harvested allows them to program the carbon ceramic brakes to operate seamlessly with the aerobrake and also the energy recuperation system, for example. They also tweaked the torque vectoring system and also the suspension. Many of the components underneath the carbon fiber body are shared with the Rimac C_Two, also is undergoing validation testing, but they’re tuned in-house.

Surprisingly, the Battista’s specifications sheet hasn’t changed significantly since its unveiling. It’s still built on top of a mammoth 120-kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery power that channels the electricity it stores to four electric motors. The machine develops 1,900 horsepower and 1,700 pound-feet of torque, and it’s capable of distributing power between your four wheels as needed. Pininfarina promises a zero-to-60-mph duration of less than 2 seconds.

Next, the designer-turned-carmaker will place the Battista through more validations tests on and off the street. Pininfarina notably must fine-tune and homologate the chassis. Deliveries continue to be scheduled to start before the end of 2021, and production is restricted to 150 examples worldwide. Pricing starts at approximately $2.2 million before options and delivery, but collectors with increased to spend can order the $2.8-million Anniversario model. It’s restricted to five examples, so it’s a limited-edition form of a limited-edition car, also it takes three weeks to paint.

Though 1,900 horsepower is really a dazzling figure, the Battista isn’t the most powerful electric car within the pipeline. That honor currently goes to the two,000-horsepower Lotus Evija, although the list grows on the shockingly consistent basis.