2029 Lamborghini Urus replacement will be electric-only

13 Mar 2023, 12:01 am

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Lamborghini CEO Stephan Winkelmann has confirmed the successor to its popular Urus SUV will be all-electric come 2029.

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Urus hyper SUV successor to go EV-only
Due in 2029 as second Lamborghini electric model
Current lineup to be hybridised by next year

“In '28 and '29 we will have our first two BEVs [battery-electric vehicles]," Winkelmann told Road and Track.

"We will have a fourth model… it will be the first one to be completely a BEV car in 2028. And then in 2029 there will be the new Urus."

As per Lamborghini tradition, this new high-performance electric SUV isn’t expected to wear the Urus badge – as each generational model has its own nameplate.

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The mysterious Lamborghini electric SUV may ride on the Volkswagen Group parent company’s Premium Platform Electric (PPE) underpinnings, which will be the base for the forthcoming Porsche Macan EV and Audi RS6 E-Tron.

Alternatively, it could opt for the eventual Scalable Systems Platform (SSP) that’s expected to debut in 2028 and underpin all Volkswagen Group branded electric cars heading into the 2035 sales ban of new internal-combustion engine vehicles in Europe.

The current Urus rides on the group’s MLB Evo platform shared with the Porsche Cayenne and Bentley Bentayga luxury SUVs.

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Winkelmann claims its first two new EVs will reduce the ultra-luxury brand’s overall emissions by 80 per cent compared to today, as strict Euro 7 emissions regulations loom in 2025.

In the interim, Lamborghini will electrify its entire current three model lineup by next year – with a ludicrously powerful plug-in hybrid 2024 Aventador successor (codenamed LB744) leading the push.

A plug-in hybrid Urus hyper SUV will join the range sometime in 2024, after it was updated last year with new S and Performante variants, followed by a plug-in Huracán in late 2024.