dark mode light mode Search
Search

Lamborghini Terzo Millennio Electric Hypercar

Lamborghini Terzo Millennio

Lamborghini

Lamborghini has revealed a new design concept in collaboration with two laboratories of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, making the first steps of a possible future Lamborghini electric super sports car. Lamborghini Terzo Millennio focuses, specifically, on different dimensions of technology and design including, energy storage systems, innovative materials, propulsion systems. In a time when the high-end automobile industry when all car designs are moving away from traditional energy storage systems and conventional batteries, Lamborghini investigates the potential of supercapacitors.

 Lamborghini Terzo Millennio

This is in line with the application of low voltage supercapacitors in the V12 Aventador, which started five years ago. The next logical step is the development of a storage system able to deliver high peak power and regenerate kinetic energy with very limited influence from aging and cycling during the vehicle’s life. At the same time, the system must be able to symmetrically release and harvest electric power. this system requires the utilization of new materials and produce carbon fiber structure and parts — taking lightweight materials to the next level.

 Lamborghini Terzo Millennio

The energy storage system goes hand-in hand with performance: each wheel incorporates an integrated electric engine, perpetuating the commitment to four-wheel drive and in the meantime harvesting the opportunities provided by electric motors: high torque, reversibility, and the possibility of moving energy by wire. Moving the electric motors into the wheels has another positive effect: freedom for designers and aerodynamicists.

 Lamborghini Terzo Millennio

The Terzo Millenio is the visionary outcome conceived by the Lamborghini Centro Stile to express future design elements, taking into account the radical changes in technology and anticipating elements of forthcoming Lamborghini design. An example for a very strong statement is the evolution and further development of the Lamborghini typical Y-signature in the front and rear lights.
As a result of the change in technologies the design can be a radical expression of aerodynamic supremacy, based around an entirely new architecture, totally dedicated to perfecting airflow. A highly advanced monocoque based on Lamborghini’s Forged Composite technology can be modelled, containing only the energy accumulation system and driver’s and co-driver’s seats, inspired by race cars.
 Lamborghini Terzo Millennio
Fundamental to a Lamborghini hypercar of the future is sustaining the emotion of driving a Lamborghini, and an immersive driver experience. The responsiveness of the electric motors, the four-wheel torque control and the dynamic body control system will enhance the driver’s experience, projecting it into the third millennium. Finally, the consequent aerodynamics and innovative lightweight approach will result in a new dimension of longitudinal as well as lateral dynamics, in this combination until today unknown from electrified cars.
 Lamborghini Terzo Millennio
The Terzo Millenio’s virtual cockpit allows more than travelling the highways of a future world: its Piloted Driving simulation allows the driver to be taken around a track such as Imola by a virtual expert before the driver takes over to feel like a ‘pilot’ himself, experiencing the real car and circuit while following the virtual ghost car.
 Lamborghini Terzo Millennio
all images courtesy of Lamborghini