Lamborghini's First EV Was Supposed to Land by 2028. Now Reports Can't Agree It's Coming at All

A Supercar Brand Quietly Backs Away From Electric

For years, Lamborghini's roadmap was clear on paper: a hybrid-only lineup by the mid-2020s, followed by the brand's first fully electric model, a four-seat GT concept called the Lanzador, arriving sometime around 2028. That plan has now unraveled in stages — and according to multiple outlets citing Lamborghini's own CEO, the company isn't in any hurry to put it back together.

Stephan Winkelmann told Reuters, in comments also picked up by Carscoops and Euronews, that resistance to EVs "has increased significantly worldwide" among Lamborghini's buyers, and that demand for a fully electric version of the car has been "close to zero," according to a separate interview with The Sunday Times. Instead of a battery-electric Lanzador, Lamborghini says the nameplate will now arrive as a two-door plug-in hybrid GT with occasional rear seats — not the EV it was originally pitched as.

Reportedly Delayed — But How Far?

Here's where the story gets murky, and where readers should slow down on the hedging words. This is the brand's third public walk-back of the Lanzador timeline. It reportedly slipped from 2028 to 2029 back in mid-2025, with Winkelmann citing a "flattening" EV-adoption curve at the time. The latest round of reporting, from around February 2026, pushes things further out — but outlets don't agree on by how much.

Autocar India and AutoGuide report that Lamborghini's first EV has "slipped back past 2030," framing it as a postponement rather than a cancellation. Other coverage, including a piece republished by Vietnamese outlet Tuoi Tre News citing Lamborghini's own statements, describes the company "withdrawing" its current EV launch plan outright, with hybrids as the long-term focus instead. Lamborghini's financial filing reportedly threads the needle by saying the hybrid pivot was made "without compromising the future development of a fully electric model" — language that leaves the door open without committing to a date.

So: is there a Lamborghini EV coming in 2031, 2035, or never? As of this reporting, nobody outside Sant'Agata seems to know for certain, and Lamborghini has not published a replacement timeline.

Not an Isolated Case

What makes this more than a single brand's product reshuffle is the company it's keeping. Ferrari has reportedly delayed its second EV from 2026 to 2028 over what sources described to Reuters as essentially nonexistent demand, even as its limited first EV — the Elettrica — stays nominally on track. Maserati is widely reported to have dropped its electric MC20 project entirely. Porsche has separately trimmed back EV ambitions after what multiple outlets describe as disappointing uptake of the Taycan and electric Macan.

Taken together, the reporting points to a pattern: Europe's halo supercar and luxury brands are reportedly retreating from pure-electric flagships faster than they committed to them just two or three years ago, leaning instead on plug-in hybrids as the "electrified enough" middle ground. None of this is confirmed as a coordinated industry retreat — each brand is citing its own demand data — but the direction across four marques in the same tier is hard to miss.

Why It's Worth Watching From the UAE

Lamborghini's hybrid-over-electric bet matters here more than it might for most markets. Dubai is home to what's been widely reported as the largest Lamborghini dealership on Earth, and the UAE and wider Gulf have consistently been described by Lamborghini's own regional leadership as among its most important markets globally, driven by personalization demand and a buyer base less sensitive to running costs than to exclusivity and sound. Lamborghini's current UAE lineup — the Huracán, the Urus (including a plug-in hybrid Urus variant), and the V12 Revuelto hybrid — is already built around exactly the hybrid-performance formula Winkelmann is reportedly doubling down on, not the battery-electric future the Lanzador once promised.

If the pattern holds, Gulf buyers who want a "green" halo Lamborghini will likely be offered a plug-in hybrid for years yet, with a genuine EV — if and when it comes — arriving well into the next decade rather than before it. Regional dealers haven't issued their own statements on the delay as of this writing, and Lamborghini has not confirmed a new target date, so treat any specific year attached to a future Lamborghini EV as speculation until the company says otherwise.

The Bottom Line

What's confirmed: Lamborghini's CEO has publicly and repeatedly said demand for a fully electric model is weak, and the Lanzador is now arriving as a plug-in hybrid, not an EV. What's still genuinely unresolved, based on conflicting outlet-by-outlet framing, is whether "delayed" means 2031 or means never. Until Lamborghini itself puts a number on it, that's a rumor mill still spinning — not a settled fact.