Has Pininfarina built a Tesla fighter?
H600 TURBINE HYBRID CONCEPT PROMISES 621-MILE RANGE, 2.9-SECOND BLASTS TO 62 MPH
MARCH 7, 2017
The Geneva motor show is one of the year's best opportunities to see concept cars from the few European design houses that are still around, but rarely are they luxury sedans with suicide doors. Hybrid luxury sedans with suicide doors, to be precise.
That's just what Pininfarina brought to Geneva: The H600 was developed in partnership with the Hybrid Kinetic Group and claims a maximum range of 621 miles, which gets over the all-important 1,000-kilometer barrier thanks to a mysterious battery and a turbine-run range extender, whose detailed specs were not disclosed.
But the performance figures of the concept sedan are nothing short of another shot fired in the EV launch-time wars: Pininfarina says the H600 can silently whoosh to 62 mph in just 2.9 seconds, and it has a output of "over 600 kilowatts," which translates to just over 800 hp. As you might have guessed by now, this 4,122-pound sedan won't be able to hit that max range of 612 miles if it lights up the tires at every traffic light, though the claimed maximum range is currently in the top tier of concept, if not production, EVs...