Lotus' Taycan rival breaks cover: Type 133 goes testing at the 'Ring
new Taycan rival
Our spy photographers have snapped a prototype of the electric sports saloon being pushed on the Nürburgring and even show the four-door EV locking up a wheel. It’s camo’d as much as you’d expect, but you can still see styling elements from theWhat’s more, there also appears to be a Polestar-style module above the front windscreen, which presumably holds the car’s LiDAR sensors and other tech gubbins.
Also in common is Lotus’s electric motor design, which combines the controller and the driveshaft-linking reducer to keep the unit as compact as possible. The Eletre deploys a motor on both front and rear axles for all-wheel drive, with the standard and S model yielding 450kW , while the R spins out 675kW .
Lotus describes the Eletre as a hyper SUV, believing it to be in a performance league unmatched by rivals such as the BMW iX M60. Certainly the R’s 2.95sec 0-62mph time is almost a second quicker than the BMW’s. But Type 133 will need to go even faster if it’s to eclipse the Porsche Taycan Turbo S – but that’s the goal for this hyper saloon.
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