Video: Top Gear Dissects Pininfarina Battista, The 1,874-HP EV

This thing has almost twice the power of an F1 car.

During the Geneva Motor Show last month, we saw the most powerful road car ever to come from Italy. No, it wasn’t a Ferrari or a Lamborghini – actually, it was the first creation from Automobili Pininfarina, which is now an automaker, not just a design studio. Pininfarina says the Battista is the “world’s first pure electric luxury hyper GT” and the car deserves every single word from this colorful description. In a new video, the folks over at Top Gear explain why.

Want some speed numbers? Here they are – 0 to 62 miles per hour (0-100 kilometers per hour) in less than two seconds, top speed of 218 mph (350 kph), and 0 to 186 mph (0-300 kph) in less than 12 seconds. A full charge of the batteries should provide an estimated 280 miles (450 kilometers) of range. And, as Reid puts it, “this is a road car with almost twice the power of a Formula 1 racing car, more than three times the torque of a McLaren F1, and the same environmental footprint as a Nissan Leaf.”

Probably the most interesting part of the video shines more light on the construction of the Battista, starting with information about the 120-kWh battery, which is, in fact, the same battery package you can find in a Rimac Concept_Two. Reid then talks about the four electric motors that propel that car – and one important thing we learned is that most of the car’s driving modes actually limit the amount of torque you have available in order to make the machine more easily controllable for the driver.

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