Car manufacturers are increasing their car portfolio by the day and Lamborghini has decided not to be left behind in this revolution. Lamborghini unveiled the Asterion LPI 910-4 this year. This is so far the company’s first plug-in-hybrid vehicle.
The company maintained its naming convention using the 910 suffix. This convention refers to the 5.2-liter V10 engine combined with three electric motors. The LP1 is an Italian term that indicates that the engine of the car is located at the rear end of the car. The number 4 in the name is used to imply that that the car is a four-wheel drive.
According to the company, the car can accelerate from zero to 62 mph in a space of 3 seconds. The car has a top speed of up to 200 mph. It is also amazing to note that the car can drive for up to 30 miles on electric power alone.
The name of the car, Asterion, seems to have deviated from the conventional naming system for the company. This is because the name is of Greek origin. The customary name for naming cars in the company has all along been naming cars after fighting bulls. The company CEO justified this deviation in the naming convention by stating the fact that the Asterion is a name of a Minotaur, which in its nature is a hybrid of a man and a bull. This is exactly what this car represents to the world and to their consumers. It is the hybrid of two powerful technologies that seek to take advantage of the strengths gained from each other.
The company is now laying down plans to have the commercial production of this vehicle within the shortest time possible. The company has set forth an ambitious plan of building machines that use less fuel, release lesser amounts of harmful gases into the atmosphere, and increases the performance of the vehicle beyond the capacity of their current range of conventional vehicles in the market.
The company has already invested a significant amount of its resources into research and development on the hybrid technology. The release of the Asterion LPI 910-4 will be the stepping-stone of the company into the production of this new technology fleet of cars. With the hybrid market demand increasing by the day, we can be optimistic that this is going to be a successful venture.