Pininfarina's Montana Project to create the world's fastest EV

Pininfarina S.p.A. is an Italian renowned automotive coachbuilder based in Turin. The company, which was founded in 1930 by Battista Farina grew rapidly when their auto design services were used by many large manufacturers ranging from Ferrari, Maserati, Cadillac, Nash, Peugeot, Jaguar, Volvo, Alfa Romeo, MG, Cisitalia, Lancia, Hyundai, etc.

Pininfarina H2 Speed hydrogen fuel cell hypercar at Geneva Motor Show 2018. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2nIGiLy)

After 88 years of working in the coacbuilder and automotive design, Pininfarina seemed to want to sink deeper into the world's automotive by becoming a car manufacturer. 

However, not wanting to follow in the other manufacturers footsteps who are still playing in the conventional engines realm, they chose to dissolve into the "nowadays" breakthrough movement by releasing the charming electric hypercar concept. Not only has a charming design, their hypercar is said to have the performance to rival the Bugatti Chiron!

Left side view of Pininfarina H2 Speed hydrogen fuel cell hypercar. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2Mf73pD)

What is their capital? As quoted of Autoblog, that the Pininfarina received an initial investment of $100 million (around £71.6m) from Mahindra, an Indian multinational automotive company. The company also entered the automotive industry by marketing the Mahindra branded vehicles.

These project is known as the Montana Project, and to be referred as the Pininfarina targets to make four cars or more in next five years. The main model codenamed PF-Zero, followed by three SUV units: the PF-One (the biggest) will be a rival to Lamborghini Urus, the other two will become rivals for Porsche Cayenne and Macan.

Another interesting news, all of these cars will use a modular platform that was developed together with Rimac, a Croatian electric supercar maker, and the Mahindra Racing Formula E. The collaboration of the three also led to the use of super-performing electric motors.

Top view of Pininfarina H2 Speed hydrogen fuel cell hypercar. (Picture from: http://bit.ly/2Mf73pD)

As an illustration, the latest Rimac C_Two is generating a total power of 1,887 hp from four its electric motors. Well, that's the picture of the largest power will be generated by the PF-Zero hypercar. A doubled force figures that will make the 1,479 hp-powered Bugatti Chiron left far behind.

While the next Pininfarina electric-SUV is predicted to be powered by 940 hp, which is expected to accelerate from 0 to 100 kph under 3 seconds. And reportedly, Mahindra itself intends to invest a total of around £358 million into the Montana Project for next five years. And their hypercar development will begin this year and the launches planned in the 2020. *** [EKA | FROM VARIOUS SOURCES | AUTOBLOG | HOTCARS | CARTOQ | NDTV | OVERDRIVE | AUTOCAR]

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