Automobili Pininfarina to deliver first luxury EV Battista hyper GTs to US, including rare $3M Anniversario edition
European hypercar manufacturer Automobili Pininfarina has made its official invasion into the United States. Sure, the boutique automaker already has retail partners in place on US soil and continues to expand that footprint, but it will soon deliver the very first two all-electric Battista hyper GTs to US customers. Better yet, one of them is the first of only five Battista Anniversario EVs being made.
Automobili Pininfarina GmbH is a Munich-based subsidiary of Mahindra & Mahindra, who purchased the Italian car design firm Pininfarina SpA in 2015. The automaker’s Italian roots come from the original Pininfarina, which was founded in 1930 by Battista “Pinin” Farina.
The refreshed subsidiary’s first EV, the Battista hyper GT, is named after its predecessor’s original founder and initially debuted as a concept EV at Monterey Car Week 2018. That luxury hyper GT was followed by the announcement of an even more exclusive version of the Battista called the Anniversario. It features handcrafted components like its paint job, and its makers have promised a limited production of only five vehicles – each already sold for an estimated $2.9 million each.
Automobili Pininfarina originally promised the Battista would arrive in 2020, but following delays, the hypercar developer unveiled a production-ready version at Monterey Car Week in the summer of 2021. Since that debut, Automobili Pininfarina has been expanding its retail presence in North America while simultaneously ramping up Battista hyper GT production overseas.
With the handcrafted hypercars rolling off the assembly lines at the automaker’s recently opened Atelier engineering and development hub in Cambiano, Italy, Automobili Pininfarina has begun the delivery process to customers in the US.
Battista Hyper GTs bring ultra performance stateside
According to a press release from Automobili Pininfarina, the first two bespoke Battista hyper GTs will be leaving Italy this month for delivery to its first US customers. The first hyper GT will make its way to a private collector on the West Coast. The second Battista to leave the Atelier this month will be the first of only five exclusive Battista Anniversario cars made. Where in the US it’s headed however, remains private. Here are some of the EV’s performance specs:
- 0 -100 km/h (0-62 mph) in under two seconds
- 1,900 horsepower
- 2,360 Nm of torque
- 120 kWh battery powers four electric motors
- WLTP range up to 476 km (EPA range of 300 miles)
In addition to the two luxury EVs arriving, the automaker shared news of a tenth retail location in North America, adding a new space in Dallas, Texas. With the start of deliveries and retail partners in place, Automobili Pininfarina hopes to become a known boutique EV brand in the US and beyond. Company CEO Per Svantesson spoke:
The team and I are very proud of Automobili Pininfarina’s expansion in the U.S. and the delivery of the first Battista cars stateside. This symbolizes our creation of a new luxury electric car segment both in the US and globally. With a passionate collector receiving the first Battista in North America, we see tremendous confidence in this masterpiece of design and technology in this influential community. North America is a very special region for Automobili Pininfarina. The appetite in the community for peerless design and the demand for innovative electric luxury cars means that the majority of the 150 bespoke Battista we handcraft in Italy will be owned by US clients.
The first series production version of the Battista hyper GT will be on display in New York state later this month, while Automobili Pininfarina continues to handcraft all 150 of the predetermined series EVs. If you were the one of the US customers and are reading this, message me. I won’t share your identity, I just want a ride along!
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If you’ve ever wondered what happens when you combine a fruit cart, a cargo bike, and a Piaggio Ape all in one vehicle, now you’ve got your answer. I submit, for your approval, this week’s feature for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column – and it’s a beautiful doozie.
Feast your eyes on this salad slinging, coleslaw cruising, tuber taxiing produce chariot!
I think this electric vegetable trike might finally scratch the itch long felt by many of my readers. It seems every time I cover an electric trike, even the really cool ones, I always get commenters poo-poo-ing it for having two wheels in the rear instead of two wheels in the front. Well, here you go, folks!
Designed with two front wheels for maximum stability, this trike keeps your cucumbers in check through every corner. Because trust me, you don’t want to hit a pothole and suddenly be juggling peaches like you’re in Cirque du Soleil: Farmers Market Edition.
To avoid the extra cost of designing a linked steering system for a pair of front wheels, the engineers who brought this salad shuttle to life simply side-stepped that complexity altogether by steering the entire fixed front end. I’ve got articulating electric tractors that steer like this, and so if it works for a several-ton work machine, it should work for a couple hundred pounds of cargo bike.
Featuring a giant cargo bed up front with four cascading fruit baskets set up for roadside sales, this cargo bike is something of a blank slate. Sure, you could monetize grandma’s vegetable garden, or you could fill it with your own ideas and concoctions. Our exceedingly talented graphics wizard sees it as the perfect coffee and pastry e-bike for my new startup, The Handlebarista, and I’m not one to argue. Basically, the sky is the limit with a blank slate bike like this!
Sure, the quality doesn’t quite match something like a fancy Tern cargo bike. The rim brakes aren’t exactly confidence-inspiring, but at least there are three of them. And if they should all give out, or just not quite slow you down enough to avoid that quickly approaching brick wall, then at least you’ve got a couple hundred pounds of tomatoes as a tasty crumple zone.
The electrical system does seem a bit underpowered. With a 36V battery and a 250W motor, I don’t know if one-third of a horsepower is enough to haul a full load to the local farmer’s market. But I guess if the weight is a bit much for the little motor, you could always do some snacking along the way. On the other hand, all the pictures seem to show a non-electric version. So if this cart is presumably mobile on pedal power alone, then that extra motor assist, however small, is going to feel like a very welcome guest.
The $950 price is presumably for the electric version, since that’s what’s in the title of the listing, though I wouldn’t get too excited just yet. I’ve bought a LOT of stuff on Alibaba, including many electric vehicles, and the too-good-to-be-true price is always exactly that. In my experience, you can multiply the Alibaba price by 3-4x to get the actual landed price for things like these. Even so, $3,000-$4,000 wouldn’t be a terrible price, considering a lot of electric trikes stateside already cost that much and don’t even come with a quad-set of vegetable baskets on board!
I should also put my normal caveat in here about not actually buying one of these. Please, please don’t try to buy one of these awesome cargo e-trikes. This is a silly, tongue-in-cheek weekend column where I scour the ever-entertaining underbelly of China’s massive e-commerce site Alibaba in search of fun, quirky, and just plain awesomely weird electric vehicles. While I’ve successfully bought several fun things on the platform, I’ve also gotten scammed more than once, so this is not for the timid or the tight-budgeted among us.
That isn’t to say that some of my more stubborn readers haven’t followed in my footsteps before, ignoring my advice and setting out on their own wild journey. But please don’t be the one who risks it all and gets nothing in return. Don’t say I didn’t warn you; this is the warning.
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