Consider the Lotus Emeya because the sedan type of the Eletre SUV, transferring Lotus’ latest model values right into a physique model nearer in spirit to the previous Lotus. Because the automaker marches towards manufacturing later this 12 months, we have a couple of extra particulars on what’s to return with the English foe of the Taycan competitor. Battery dimension is claimed to be 102 kWh; if that is correct, that may be down barely on the Eletre SUV’s gross 112-kWh battery that gives a usable 109-kWh. Lotus says the sedan’s vary shall be “broadly comparable” to the Eletre, which is rated to go as much as 373 miles on the WLTP cycle. The sedan, like its brother, is constructed on an 800-volt system able to 350-kW fast-charging, and makes use of two motors to energy each axles. A top-shelf Emeya R trim ought to pack the identical energy because the Eletre R, 905 horsepower and 726 pound-feet, the Emeya’s decrease profile and lighter weight taking a coupe of tenths off the Eletre’s 2.95-second dash to 60 miles per hour.
Not less than two wild specs separate the Emeya from the Eletre: A 55-inch augmented-reality head-up show. Lotus says the projection on the Electre is 29 inches. Along with being “the most important and most superior in any Lotus,” it affords “a Snow Mode which turns the show blue, serving to the motive force to see the define of the street extra simply in opposition to a white background.” Who wants an Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, eh?
The sedan additionally matches an energetic rear spoiler that is 4 inches broader than the SUV’s from entrance to again, at 11.7 inches in comparison with 7.7 inches. Adjusting the spoiler’s angle on the SUV can produce as much as 112.5 kilograms of downforce. The sedan’s spoiler rings up a most of 215 kg of downforce at velocity. The Emeya’s prime velocity is an electronically capped 159 mph, six miles per hour beneath the SUV’s, performed to protect battery well being.
Lotus lately concluded a sequence of winter assessments which might be a part of the corporate’s three-year improvement testing throughout 15 nations, understanding the Emeya in temps as little as detrimental 13 Fahrenheit and locking the automotive in a freezer at -40 F to gauge how its techniques carried out.
After happening sale in China, the Emeya heads to Europe after which to the U.S., so we should not anticipate it till someday subsequent 12 months, joined by the Evija hypercar. Automobile journal mentioned it noticed a Lotus presentation that talked about an MSRP of $100,000, virtually an identical to the bottom Porsche Taycan’s U.S. MSRP.
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