2024 Lamborghini Revuelto First Drive: You’ll Forget It’s a Hybrid
• Auto123 gets in a first drive of the 2024 Lamborghini Revuelto.
Gardiner, NY -- It’s not every day that Lamborghini goes big and delivers a punch that outmuscles even its own array of V12-powered hypercars. Sure, they’ll take their tried, tested and true Aventador platform and gussy it up with new styling, or produce a modernized take on a Lambo of old or maybe a drop-top of some kind.
But this year, though, Lambo has done something epic and delivered an all-new hypercar that adds hybrid power to the mix. It not only boosts output – by a lot – but also changes the way the Revuelto handles.
2024 Lamborghini Revuelto – What’s new?
The big news is the powertrain. The Revuelto is technically a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle in that it gets a cleverly located battery bank – more on this in a Modena minute – as well as three electric motors: one at the rear mounted to the transmission and one on each wheel.
That is how the Revuelto gets its AWD. There being no driveshaft to the rear mid-mounted 6.5L V12, so the fronts need EV power. The transmission tunnel remains, but instead of a driveshaft there, we have the aforementioned battery. That helps optimize weight distribution and since the 8-speed dual-clutch transmission is mounted transversely as opposed to longitudinally, the Revuelto is shortened, improving handling.
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