Lotus officials also say while the combustion-engine Emira may carry on for longer than planned, Lotus doesn’t have plans for re-entry into Formula 1, at least “not yet.”
, plus the two models that are set to be built in the same plant in Wuhan, China, that is set to change dramatically. By 2028 Lotus is planning to be producing 150,000 of its new electric models each year in China, with around 50,000 of those coming to north America.Which is why Autoweek grabbed some time with Lotus’s newly appointed Chief Commercial Officer Mike Johnstone at the Shanghai auto show to ask him how such a radical transformation is going to happen.about to go on sale in the U.S.
“The relationship is effectively that Lotus cars [in the UK] is a manufacturer and supplier of sports vehicles, while the Wuhan factory creates our ‘lifestyle’ cars,” Johnstone says, “but we’re one brand. I’m passionate that within the organization we have to talk about and think about one brand. Lotus is global, it won’t matter where the product comes from or which market we’re in, we have to be one Lotus.
to reach the U.S., although we will have to wait until next year for it to arrive. Lotus insiders say that the process for Federal type approval still has to be undertaken, but that the first customers will be getting cars by the end of 2024. As with Tesla’s recent decision to, the Lotus EVs reaching the States will all be Chinese-built—despite the need to pay a swingeing 27.5-percent import tariff to bring it in.
“Our plan is based on exporting from China to the U.S., but we will definitely look at other ways in which we can do it,” Johnstone says, “and not just in the U.S., to be honest with you—there are other markets you could manufacture in that would help from a tariff point of view.”
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