KEY POINTS
  • The 1,900-horsepower, all-electric Battista is a new hypercar from Automobili Pininfarina.
  • It should hit 60 miles per hour faster than a Formula One car and scream to 180 mph in less time than it takes an F-16 fighter jet to do the same.
  • Only 50 of the $2.5 million hypercars are destined for North America, with over half of that allocation reserved already.
The Pininfarina Battista hypercar

While other automakers packed the Javits Center for the New York International Auto Show, Automobili Pininfarina launched one of the week's most exciting car debuts at an off-site event.

The company's new all-electric Battista hypercar produces a whopping 1,900 horsepower and reaches 60 miles per hour in under two seconds. That makes it the fastest street-legal car ever built by an automaker, even outrunning a Formula One race car to 60 mph.