Lamborghini is charging full steam ahead with a 35 million euro ($48.6 million) environmental sustainability program aimed at significantly reducing the CO2 emissions of its factory and vehicles.
The plan calls for a 30% reduction of greenhouse gas production by its factory in 2010. Five years later, Lamborghini hopes to have reduced its vehicles' CO2 output by 35%.
To hit its goals, the Sant'Agata facility will get a new photovoltaic rooftop by the end of this year that's said to create 1582 Megawatt hour of annual energy. This alone will cut CO2 by 20% in two years' time.
It'll be bolstered by a re-insulated ceiling and more efficient lighting and heating systems. It's from these improvements that the other 10% is derived.
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Lamborghini already has its 'greener' logistics center setup that reduces big rig traffic and thus, CO2 output.
Its future vehicles will get a number of improvements aimed at balancing environmental friendliness with all-out performance. According to officials, these include lowering vehicle masses, improving combustion, reducing friction, start-stop technology, hybrid powertrains, and biofuel usage.
Yes, you read that correctly: Hybrid Lamborghini sports cars made in Italy. Whether that means the brand's sedan conceptual ventures are slowly becoming a reality, we'll have to wait and see, just like you. But it does bring up the interesting scenario of futuristic Italian hybrid sports cars dueling for top performance and economy titles -- imagine that one.
Just like the rest of the industry, even the seemingly untouchable exotic brands are now sinking massive amounts of money into advanced green technologies.
What do you think of Lamborghini's eco-friendly ventures?
Will a hybrid Lamborghini still be an all-out, no compromises, exotic sports car to you?
Source: motortrend
