As Lotus adds range-extender options and pushes back EV sports car, Emira could live on with electrification
Lotus could electrify the Emira and extend its lifecycle as the brand moves to hybridise its line-up and pushes back the sports car's long-awaited electric replacement. It's responding to flagging uptake of electric luxury cars by reducing its sales volume ambitions over the coming years and introducing a new range-extender powertrain option in a bid to boost the appeal of its EVs.
0-litre four-cylinder turbo petrol engine supplied by Mercedes-AMG, producing 360bhp, or a Toyota-derived supercharged petrol V6 with 400bhp. Both Mercedes and Toyota use these respective units – or at least versions thereof – as part of hybrid powertrains in their own line-ups. The AMG four, for example, is mildly hybridised in the AMG A35 hot hatch, and the Toyota V6 is closely related to that used in hybrids sold in various global markets.
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