Lamborghini's LMDh Hybrid Tech Will Influence Future Road-Legal Supercars

Although developed purely for competition purposes, lessons from the LMDh car can eventually filter through to road-going Lambos. However, the company isn't at that point just yet. "At the moment, it's the opposite way around," said Mohr. "We learned already a lot about the energy management for the street cars; we are not starting from zero in the LMDh."

Either way, these admissions from Winkelmann and Mohr point to an exceedingly capable generation of hybrid Lamborghini supercars that are likely to surpass their gas-powered predecessors in performance and dynamics. That's a tough ask when the Aventador was so great, but we've already seen Lamborghini's electrification expertise at play in cars like the Sian with its supercapacitor instead of a lithium-ion battery.

We've also seen how influential motorsports can be for road-legal sports cars from other manufacturers, as was the case with Mercedes-AMG and theOnehalo car. This supercar's powertrain, with a 1.6-liter V6 engine and four electric motors, is heavily derived from F1 technology. Hopefully, Lamborghini doesn't encounter the same engineering challenges as Mercedes-AMG, which were so extreme that it led to the German automaker claimingsuch an ambitious project will never happen again.

With a combined output of670 horsepower from its 90-degree V8, a seven-speed hybrid gearbox by Xtrac, and a weight of around 2,270 pounds (without a driver and fuel), the Lamborghini LMDh prototype not only looks like a top contender for next year's FIA World Endurance Championship, but an exciting preview of the technologies that we could be seeing in Lamborghini showrooms in the near future.