Lotus has revealed specs for the electric Eletre SUV! ⚡ Priced from £89,500 ⚡ 373 miles of range ⚡ Up to 893bhp and 726lb ft ⚡ 0-62mph in 2.95sec on top-spec cars ⚡ Three specification levels, all with four-wheel-drive What do you think?
The Eletre’s platform is all-new and created by Lotus rather than adapted from existing Geely hardware.
Lotus has confirmed it will offer air suspension, active aerodynamics and active ride height as standard, while options include active dampers, active rear-axle steering and torque vectoring via an electronic limited-slip differential.The Eletre was designed at the Lotus Technology Creative Centre in Coventry, Warwickshire – the firm’s new design hub for its ‘lifestyle’ cars that opened four years ago and now has 120 staff. Sports cars are still designed at Lotus headquarters in Hethel, Norfolk.
An important aerodynamic feature of the design, according to Lotus, is ‘porosity’ – how air flows through the car as well as under, over and around it, enabling less resistance and more efficiency for range, speed and performance. “It’s about utilising the technology,” said Payne, “and asking ourselves: ‘Can we make two functions of one light?’” The rear also incorporates a carbonfibre, three-stage deployable, split, roof-mounted spoiler that is intended to evoke race car winglets.
It has placed lidar sensors around the Eletre’s exterior – something now also adopted by the recently revealed Volvo EX90 and Polestar 3 – which enables it to offer level-four self-driving capability where this is allowed .Meanwhile, each door mirror is replaced by Lotus’s new Electric Reverse Mirror Display, which houses three cameras – one for the internal rear-view ‘mirror’, one to contribute to a 360deg view of the car and one as part of the intelligent driving technologies.
For example, the screens connected to the door ‘mirror’ cameras are at 50% brightness until the driver looks at them to avoid unnecessary distraction.
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