The PF0 is expected to deliver staggering performance for a road car: a stated ambition to accelerate to 100kph in less than two seconds, break the 402kph top speed barrier, and provide a potential zero emissions range of over 480km.
As a special guest of Mahindra Racing at this weekend’s Formula E street race here, Automobili Pininfarina CEO Michael Perschke also announced plans to bring on board ex-Formula 1 racing driver Nick Heidfeld. Heidfeld will be part of the team developing the PF0 vehicle dynamics programme from the beginning of 2019, prior to the all-electric hypercar’s on-sale date of late-2020.
“PF0 is borne from the 50 year old dream of Battista ‘Pinin’ Farina, to see a stand-alone Pininfarina-branded range of cars that are both beautiful and technologically advanced. PF0 will deliver enormous power and driver thrills in abundance," said Perschke.
Automobili Pininfarina was officially launched in Rome in April this year, where it announced its plan to sustainably develop and produce fully-electric ultra-luxury cars in low volumes.
North America is likely to be Automobili Pininfarina’s largest market for sales given the keen interest in both electric-power and Pininfarina-designed cars, and so the new business is now talking to prospective retailer partners.
“Pininfarina has an unprecedented heritage of delivering cars that are both beautiful to look at and technically innovative," said Automobili Pininfarina design director Luca Borgogno.
