Italian premium EV startup AEHRA continues to garner a requirement for consideration with its newest mannequin reveal – The Sedan. Daring selection to decide on to not identify your EV fashions, however AEHRA has some confidence going into at the moment’s reveal, showcasing a brand new mannequin designed by former leads at Lamborghini and Ferrari. After seeing a full glimpse of The Sedan, we’re beginning to take discover ourselves.

Should you haven’t heard of AEHRA, we don’t blame you. The Italian EV startup emerged final summer time with a imaginative and prescient of mixing Italian design magnificence and engineering with American customer support to ship a brand new breed of ultra-premium EVs.

This imaginative and prescient parallels the background of cofounder and CEO, Hazim Nada, who was born within the US and raised in Italy. From the get go, AEHRA has expressed an preliminary give attention to design shapes and architectures as Nada has beforehand mentioned he believes most EVs at the moment are nonetheless being engineered with legacy design in thoughts, and that automakers aren’t using the total capabilities at the moment’s electrical powertrains allow.

Positive, specs like horsepower and vary are nonetheless crucial (extra on that beneath), however AEHRA is hoping to redefine the definition of how EVs look and are skilled, starting with two preliminary fashions. It’s first EV, The SUV, made its public debut this previous December, however nonetheless left the startup flying a bit underneath the trade’s radar (EV startups showcasing ideas are a dime a dozen in spite of everything).

That being mentioned, AEHRA is taking a contemporary strategy to each the best way it designs and promotes its EVs – a lineup that’s now joined by The Sedan. The corporate teased some photographs of its second mannequin in late Could, however the sharply designed GT saloon made its official debut in Italy at the moment. Test it out.

AEHRA sedan makes official debut at Monza Motor Present

Right this moment in entrance of a crowd on the Milano Monza Transferring Motor Present in Italy, AEHRA pulled the sheet off its second EV mannequin – The Sedan.

It has the fingerprints of AEHRA’s head of design Filippo Perini throughout it. Earlier than leaping ship to AEHRA, Perini was the lead designer at Lamborghini and oversaw the fruition of a number of legendary fashions, together with the Murciélago LP 640, Aventador, Huracan, Centenario, and Urus. The design lead can also be supported by chief engineering officer Franco Climatti, who brings 32 years of expertise working at Ferrari.

With an arsenal of supercar designers on the helm, it’s straightforward to see how AEHRA was in a position to create such distinctive and streamlined wanting EVs so rapidly. As we’ve talked about earlier than, AEHRA likes to level out the “stunning flowing strains and exceptionally sturdy natural, muscular proportions” of The Sedan and sums up its aspect profile completely as “nearly liquid-like.” Perini was as daring as to explain AEHRA’s new electrical saloon as “the antithesis of baroque design tradition.”

If it ain’t baroque…

The Sedan will comply with The SUV on the identical mono-body platform and its anticipated to return geared up with three all-electric motors combining for 794 bhp. Like its SUV sibling, AEHRA’s sedan will characteristic a 120kWh battery constructed by Miba out of Austria, providing cost charges as much as 350kW and bi-directional capabilities. AEHRA says it’s focusing on a variety of 497 miles per cost on The Sedan.

As you’ll discover within the photographs above, The Sedan options quadruple falcon-wing doorways, which can find yourself sticking because the signature look of all AEHRA EVs. That picture particularly is our solely glimpse at The Sedan’s inside to this point, however we’d anticipate the second mannequin to accommodate comparable elements because the SUV, resembling an infotainment display screen the size of your entire sprint that may lengthen into “dwelling theatre mode” when parked.

Whereas The Sedan stays an idea for now, AEHRA has assured the general public that the manufacturing model will look just about an identical when it arrives in 2026 alongside The SUV. Per CEO Hazim Nada:

Engineered and manufactured utilizing solely the easiest expertise, supplies and methodologies the worldwide automotive trade has to supply, each the AEHRA SUV and AEHRA Sedan are pushed by a purity of perform and can usher in a brand new period of ultra-premium, exquisitely stunning emission-free mobility.

As a startup, AEHRA has expressed it has “substantial funding in place” to get its first two EVs into scaled manufacturing and has already shared intentions to roll out in markets of North America, Europe, China, and the Gulf States in 2026. We’ll see…

Electrek’s Take

AEHRA has been on my radar for fairly someday now, however that is my first time writing about them as a result of its the primary time, for my part, they’re beginning to present EV tech that would possibly… in the future… be actual.

Their preliminary emails and press releases had been promising these grandiose designs and efficiency, however with nothing to point out however a silhouette. Forgive me for passing on that means again when, however you and I each know higher than to waste your time chasing “what-ifs” within the EV startup world.

I’m admittedly impressed by The Sedan, though I believe the identify is pompous and can get complicated if AEHRA really has a run in producing a number of EV fashions. Let’s get to manufacturing on these first two EVs, then speak.

The design experience of the corporate’s hypercar veterans is obvious on this factor. It seems to be barely bloated to me from the entrance and form of provides me FF91 vibes, however I like that aspect profile and the rounded higher rear. I’m to listen to its drag coefficient or whether or not the design group merely mentioned, “screw it, simply make it look cool.” I’d think about its fairly aerodynamic, although, particularly if AEHRA has any hope of even sniffing close to the 497 mile vary it’s focusing on.

The startup seems to be taking a Fisker Inc. strategy wherein it takes its powertrain elements á la carte and integrates them right into a modular platform, leaving manufacturing to a contracted professional. That’s in all probability the wisest strategy as AEHRA appears to be very design-centric, so let that group do what it does greatest and go away the precise scaling to the professionals.

I’m nonetheless fairly skeptical, simply much less skeptical. This shall be an organization to observe both means.