$2 million Pininfarina Battista review: A super EV - Business Insider

• I drove the Pininfarina Battista, a caller electrical supercar that costs $2.2 cardinal and up. 
• The Italian EV cranks retired 1,900 horsepower from 4 electrical motors and hits 62 mph successful nether 2 seconds. 
• It accelerates faster than I thought was adjacent possible. 

You cognize that scene successful "Top Gun: Maverick" erstwhile Tom Cruise's quality flies his combatant pitchy done the godforsaken astatine ludicrous speeds, each musculus tensed to combat the bonzer G-forces?

That's benignant of what driving the Pininfarina Battista is like. At slightest that's what it felt similar successful my caput — minus the majestic soundtrack and menace of atomic war.

The $2.2 million, 1,900-horsepower electrical supercar is mind-bendingly, frighteningly quick, promising to deed 62 mph from a standstill successful little than 2 seconds. It's astonishing successful practically each different respect too, from the mode it growls astatine idle to its stunning looks. The Battista doesn't conscionable beryllium electrical vehicles aren't glorified play carts oregon boring commuter cars — it's besides an fantabulous crushed to bargain a Powerball summons each present and then.

The Battista is the archetypal exemplary from Pininfarina, a caller spinoff car marque from the famed Italian plan workplace of the aforesaid name. The hypercar is named for the company's founder, Battista "Pinin" Farina, who ever wanted to motorboat a car of his own, but ne'er got the accidental betwixt designing iconic models for Ferraris and others. 

That past shines done successful the Battista's classic, timeless silhouette. But underneath, it's each astir the present and pushing the boundaries of what an EV tin be. 

Walk up adjacent to the Battista and you'll observe a pulsing, futuristic whirr that tells you this is nary mean vehicle. In its astir subdued driving mounting — aptly named "Calma" — the dependable is faint, astir undetectable. Switching to Furiosa mode unleashes each of the supercar's monstrous powerfulness and a noisy, assertive rumble to match. Touch the car and you tin consciousness it vibrating, contempt the deficiency of an engine. 

The Battista keeps connected purring adjacent erstwhile connected the move, due to the fact that what's the constituent of buying a flashy supercar if cipher knows to crook and snag a glimpse. The soundscape — though artificial — injects immoderate theatre and play into a car that could conscionable arsenic easy beryllium arsenic dormant quiescent arsenic a Tesla oregon a Nissan Leaf. 

Like immoderate supercar worthy its highly costly salt, the Battista has doors that open up — not out. They see a conception of the roof, truthful you don't request to duck excessively debased to get in. 

From down the wheel, the Battista gives disconnected the vibes of a spaceship oregon airplane much than a regular automobile. Its low, heavy seats hug you tight. Its cockpit features 2 touchscreens flanking the steering instrumentality that are slanted toward the driver. A tiny show conscionable down the instrumentality shows lone important accusation similar your velocity and scope truthful arsenic not to distract you from the roadworthy ahead. A brace of substantial, shiny knobs enactment arsenic selectors for the Battista's driving settings and gears. 

My trial car came done up successful gorgeous tan leather connected the seats, halfway console, doors, and dashboard. But each of the 150 Battistas Pininfarina plans to marque volition beryllium unique; each operation of options a lawsuit chooses won't beryllium disposable to aboriginal buyers. Each car takes astir 1,300 hours of labour to produce, according to Pininfarina. 

I pulled retired onto the roadworthy for the archetypal clip abundantly alert that millions of dollars worthy of painstakingly crafted machinery was present successful my hands. I started retired successful Calma arsenic I got a consciousness for what the supercar tin do. 

Things were wholly manageable. After all, Calma unlocks only about 700 horsepower and chiefly employs 2 of the Battista's 4 motors. (It has one driving each wheel.) In this astir businesslike setting, the Battista tin question 300 miles betwixt charging stops, according to the EPA. 

With a satisfying click of the rotary dial to my left, I cranked up the strength by switching to Pura, past to Energica. Each time, the Battista's acceleration grew fiercer and the artificial driving dependable pumped into the compartment louder and much intimidating. 

Eventually my copilot, 1 of Pininfarina's apical engineers, suggested I mightiness beryllium acceptable for Furiosa — to spot what the Battista tin bash erstwhile each of its 1,900 horsepower and 1,726 pound-feet of torque are unleashed. I thought I was acceptable too. 

I was not ready. 

I came up to an unfastened agelong of road, death-gripped the steering wheel, and floored it. In an instant — little than an instant, if that's adjacent imaginable — the Battista was simply gone, hurtling down the roadworthy faster, and faster, and faster until I fto disconnected the throttle, exiting immoderate time-warp I was conscionable successful and snapping backmost into reality. 

Afterward, each I could bash was gasp and giggle and babble incoherently portion my encephalon caught up and tried to process what conscionable happened. 

Perhaps naively, I thought the Battista would beryllium conscionable different very speedy electrical car. I've driven a fewer of those. But the Battista is connected a antithetic planet. It's benignant of similar getting changeable retired of a cannon — but a cannonball slows down, portion the Battista relentlessly keeps picking up speed. 

I came distant from my clip successful the Battista wondering what galore of you astir apt privation to cognize too: Is it worthy it?

That's pugnacious to reply for idiosyncratic who doesn't person the luck to warrant specified a purchase. Is going to abstraction connected Jeff Bezos's spaceship worthy millions of dollars? Probably, if you're fortunate capable to spend it. 

The Battista is ridiculously expensive, but it's besides highly uncommon and offers an acquisition astir radical volition ne'er get. What I tin accidental is this: If you're the fortunate 1 who won that $2 cardinal jackpot the different day, spell for it. You won't beryllium disappointed.