The Terzo Millennio is Lamborghini’s vision of the electric supercar of the future and was developed in partnership with MIT. Terzo Millennio is Italian for third millennium but let’s hope that we won’t have to wait another 983 years for this particular car to become a production model. However, one or two innovations the car […]The post Lamborghini?s Electric Concept Car appeared first on Pursuitist.

The Terzo Millennio is Lamborghini’s vision of the electric supercar of the future and was developed in partnership with MIT.Terzo Millennio is Italian for third millennium but let’s hope that we won’t have to wait another 983 years for this particular car to become a production model. However, one or two innovations the car boasts ? or at least aims to boast ? could be a generation away from becoming a reality.We’ve already seen what a purely electric supercar is capable of achieving ? the NextEV Nio EP9 is currently the fastest car of any description to lap the Nurburgring ? but what Lamborghini has in mind for its first car to jettison a 12-cylinder engine block takes things to a whole new level.Batteries are heavy and weight is the enemy of performance, and Lamborghini wants to create composite structural materials that double as energy storage, so that the driver is essentially sitting inside the battery. Work is already underway on this with MIT but a breakthrough in nanotechnology will be needed for it to come to fruition s...