Recently, McLaren CEO Michael Leiters revealed to the media that McLaren will not launch a pure electric supercar before 2030. Leites believes that current pure electric sports cars are immature and current battery technology will cause pure electric sports cars to be too heavy.McLaren hopes to effectively reduce the weight of the battery, and the relevant technology will not be ready until 2030.
Leites believes that the weight of the battery is very important for sports cars. While ensuring the strong power of the sports car, the cruising range must also be taken into consideration. This will make the battery pack of the sports car very heavy, but this will seriously affect the handling experience of the vehicle.
McLaren does not want to launch an electric sports car that weighs more than 2 tons and has a horsepower of 2,000. They have to wait for the advancement of battery technology to control the weight of the vehicle to about 1.5 tons before McLaren will consider launching an electric sports car.
It is worth mentioning thatThe Nevera, a pure electric supercar previously launched by RiMac (Croatian high-performance sports car brand), can accelerate from 0 to 100 mph in 1.7 seconds, setting a record for the fastest electric vehicle.
However, McLaren is not interested in building a sports car like the Rimac Nevera. The weight of the car has reached 2.3 tons. Although the acceleration has set a record, the lap time on the Nürburgring circuit is difficult to break 7 minutes. The Nürburgring results of many current fuel supercars are more than 6 minutes.
Even if McLaren builds an electric sports car, it will consider itself a sports car and will not make too many compromises on the handling performance of the sports car for the sake of electric power.