Lotus is entering a new age as well as a new market of the market with its first-ever SUV, the all-electric Lotus Eletre. Retaining the British brand’s naming convention of designs starting with an E, the Eletre has been referred to as “a momentous point in our history” by the brand’s managing director, Matt Windle.
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Based on an all-new 800-volt platform called electric premium Architecture, the new design is powered by a battery of a lot more than 100kWh (an precise figure for offered energy hasn’t been confirmed) that feeds a pair of electric motors – one on each axle – for a targeted minimum overall power output of 592bhp. This will increase for higher-spec, even a lot more performance-focused versions, with Lotus aiming for the fastest Eletres to provide a 0-62mph time of less than three seconds.
‘I’m sure Colin Chapman would be extremely pleased of the Lotus Eletre’
By their extremely nature, EVs are heavier, as well as while the Eletre is a departure from Lotus’s standard designs as well as business creator Colin Chapman’s principles of a low kerbweight, there are lots of advancements in keeping with the marque’s ethos. Lotus’s technique to minimizing mass has still been at the heart of development, as well as the Eletre “takes the core principles as well as Lotus DNA from a lot more than 70 years of sports cars and truck style as well as engineering, evolving them into a desirable all-new way of life cars and truck for the next generation of Lotus customers”.