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The Pininfarina Battista: Italy’s most powerful car ever

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When you create a car that literally is made to stand at the pinnacle of your legacy, you give it a special christening. Pininfarina has unveiled their most powerful automobile yet. Named after the person who began it all, the car (which was referred to as Project PF0 until now) is being called Pininfarina Battista, after the company’s founder, Battista ‘Pinin’ Farina.

The Battista seals Pininfarina’s reputation as one of the leading automotive design studios in the world. It’s touted to be Italy’s most powerful and fastest car ever made, with a 1,900 horsepower electric drivetrain, a top speed in excess of 350km/h, a 0-100km/h acceleration that’s under 2 seconds, and an impressive range of over 500 kilometers on a single charge. The hypercar’s highly anticipated design still remains under wraps (quite literally), but a few renders showcase what it may look like. The razor-thin headlights and taillights do get the heart racing, don’t you think?!

The Battista sits at the top of Pininfarina’s legacy of delivering some of the most sublime cars ever (especially with their long and fruitful partnership with Ferrari in the past), but is the first car Pininfarina has produced under their own brand name. Making a promise of delivering Pininfarina’s signature combination of high-class design and future-forward engineering, the car is said to be “a sustainably-developed, zero-emissions hypercar that represents the progression Automobili Pininfarina will make at the pinnacle of the luxury and sports car market.”

The car sports a powertrain developed by the Croatian company Rimac, and a battery pack that sits within a bespoke carbon fibre monocoque, with a charge time of 0% to 80% in under 40 minutes. The Battista will be limited to a run of 150 units, with 50 allocated to Europe, 50 to the US, and a further 50 for the middle and far east, and should debut around the autumn of 2020, for the lucky 150 customers that book their unit in advance on the website!

Designer: Automobili Pininfarina

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Pininfarina’s $2 million electric hypercar boasts a 250MPH top speed

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When Pininfarina teased its PF0 electric hypercar in March, it didn't do more than promise a massive amount of power and a 2020 launch. It's starting to dribble out details, however, and it now looks like the PF0 may deliver the best of all worlds -...

We could learn a thing or two from Pininfarina’s signature minimalism

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I wouldn’t really call it minimalism, as much as I would cleanness and straightforwardness, but the Italian automotive design powerhouse is channeling an aesthetic that isn’t necessarily Italian, but feels more of a blend between German and Japanese. Its collaboration with Hybrid Kinetic resulted in the H500 sedan concept… a car that’s pristine both on the outside and inside.

The H500 is equipped with the cutting-edge technology developed by Hybrid Kinetic for the traction system, with battery and electric motors capable of going from 0 to 100kmph in 4.7 seconds but what I truly find alluring is its outer body. Made to look less ground-breaking and more sensible, the H500’s design is clean, crisp, and doesn’t shock or surprise you, but rather reasons with you. Even though it’s an electric car, it retains its grill on the front, giving it an aggressive Stalin-esque mustache look. The rest of the body, however, tries to retain a smooth sensible look, with little drama, and subtle curves carving the car’s exterior (something we saw in the H2 Speed concept too). All details on the exterior don’t add to it, but blend right in, whether it’s the skylight on top that looks more like a racing stripe than a window, or the handles on the doors that stand flush against the car’s body… giving the car a clean exterior, which rather well complements the fact that the car’s zero emission nature, making it clean in more than one way!

Designers: Pininfarina & Hybrid Kinetic.

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Pininfarina’s all-speed, no-emissions hypercar!

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It may look like a toy, but the H2 Speed (shown above beside the Sigma Grand Prix concept) by Pininfarina and GreenGT isn’t a plaything. 2016’s best concept of the year at the Geneva Motor Show finally made it to reality at this year’s show amongst a few dropped jaws… given how simply perfect it looks. Its aesthetic, dominated by big, broad, smooth details gives it the playful demeanor of a die-cast toy car, making it look like the embodiment of speed, but not necessarily too aggressive.

Embodying Pininfarina’s DNA of purity, the H2 Speed is styled by aerodynamics, resulting in a car that feels pure, evoking a sense of speed as well as minimalism. However, the car’s most noteworthy detail is its zero-emissions engine that doesn’t run on electricity… but rather on hydrogen! Partnering with French/Swiss GreenGT, Pininfarina’s H2 showcases “Full Hydrogen Technology” that allows the car to reach 300 km/h by releasing just water vapor into the atmosphere. With a maximum horsepower of 653, this engine accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.4 seconds. Another added advantage over traditional electric cars (I can’t believe I used traditional and electric car in the same sentence), is its incredibly fast refueling time. While electric cars can take a decent while to reach a full charge, filling the tank of a hydrogen car takes close to 3 minutes. It also means the car will sound different, as compared to all-electric drives.

Only 12 units of the H2 Speed will be produced, and while that isn’t enough water-vapour to make massive changes to the environment, GreenGT’s technology is sure to be carried forward and used in more cars to come. The H2 was showcased at the Geneva Motor Show in 2018 and is set for a 2019 release!

Designer: Pininfarina & GreenGT

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Headlights of the Geneva Motor Show 2018

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This absolutely exhaustive collection of headlights and taillights from the Geneva Motor Show 2018 paints a pretty accurate picture of how we’ve moved on from traditional lighting to designs that are much more expressive and state-of-the-art… because that’s what cars are moving towards. Being entities of transportation with a personality that isn’t just visual, but intangibly humane too. These cars come with high-end AI integration, allowing you to interact with the car as you would with a human. The expressive headlights almost look eye-like in some cases, allowing the car to look anywhere from friendly to superior. While the headlights take the expression of the eye, it’s up to the taillight to convey a sense of aerodynamics and speed. Taillights are usually dominated by horizontal or slanted lines, giving the car a sense of direction and speed, almost looking like a motion blur of red.

A lot of the cars explore edge-lighting to give you a slim headlamp/taillamp with an almost logo-esque, iconic, defined look. Gone are the days of the circular headlight, or the one with the traditional bulb+reflector setup. The headlights of 2018 seem to be on the verge of becoming just an ornamental feature with no proper use (we’re even seeing an increased adoption of blue lighting over white), as cars move towards a self-driving future where the driver doesn’t need to see what’s a 100 feet ahead of him/her. The cars that DO retain the circular headlight (like the Honda EV and the Toyota I-Concept) do so to allow the car to look friendly and approachable… a personality-type usually reserved for the experimental car-sharing system.

Screens/pixels also start to make their appearances on the front of the car (Honda EV Concept, the Mercedes EQ Concept, and the incredibly futuristic Toyota I-Concept), giving the vehicle emotional depth and a little more dynamism.

Picture Credits: Pablo Doldán

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Pininfarina will go from designer to automaker with all-EV lineup

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For decades, Pininfarina has largely been a design house -- it shaped and built cars, but usually under someone else's name (such as the Ferrari F40). It's apparently ready to become a full-fledged manufacturer, however, and a thoroughly 21st centur...

The ink-less pen that writes forever!

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This pen is literally timeless. In the sense that it will run forever, that too without a single drop of ink. Coming from the one company that knows timeless design best, Italy’s Pininfarina, the Pininfarina Cambiano pen is a beautiful, sleek writing tool that uses innovative design and material choice to give you a pen (or rather a pencil, given the way it writes) that uses a nib made out of a patented metallic alloy called Ethergraf that can create never-ending lines of graphite on paper. These lines look like hard-pencil strokes and van even be erased like one.

Designed after the Cambiano concept car from 2012, the pen features similar design styling and wood-inlay work. The perfect tool for any designer looking to sketch anywhere anytime, or even any writing-instrument enthusiast, the Cambiano pen is a pleasure to own and an absolute delight to write with, especially since it works almost like magic! Never worry about sharpening a pencil, or refilling a pen again. The Cambiano pen is a perfect instrument for capturing your thoughts, because just like your mind, it runs for a lifetime!

Designer: Pininfarina

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The ink-less pen that writes forever!

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This pen is literally timeless. In the sense that it will run forever, that too without a single drop of ink. Coming from the one company that knows timeless design best, Italy’s Pininfarina, the Pininfarina Cambiano pen is a beautiful, sleek writing tool that uses innovative design and material choice to give you a pen (or rather a pencil, given the way it writes) that uses a nib made out of a patented metallic alloy called Ethergraf that can create never-ending lines of graphite on paper. These lines look like hard-pencil strokes and van even be erased like one.

Designed after the Cambiano concept car from 2012, the pen features similar design styling and wood-inlay work. The perfect tool for any designer looking to sketch anywhere anytime, or even any writing-instrument enthusiast, the Cambiano pen is a pleasure to own and an absolute delight to write with, especially since it works almost like magic! Never worry about sharpening a pencil, or refilling a pen again. The Cambiano pen is a perfect instrument for capturing your thoughts, because just like your mind, it runs for a lifetime!

Designer: Pininfarina

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