In the midst of a welter of startling facts, those tasked with communicating the Pininfarina Battista have plenty to draw on. It’s the most powerful road-legal car ever to come out of Italy, a country that’s produced its fair share of powerful road-legal cars. Thanks to a 120kWh lithiumion battery pack and an electric motor on each wheel, it produces approximately 1420kW and 2298Nm. Both are barmy and imbue the Battista with an accelerative urge to rival an F1 car. Zero to 100kph takes a tarmac-melting sub-two seconds, 300kph up in less than 12. All without the haze of spent hydrocarbons. Welcome, high-net worth, guilt-free, zero-emissions ultra-performance.
But elsewhere there’s talk of creating “the first car to make the world love electric vehicles” – acknowledgement that, unless you’re one of…
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Top Gear South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2019