2023
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Mileage: 11
Electric
Mileage: 15
Mileage: 16
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Should Lotus be building an electric car? Or full-EV? Well the facts are that if it doesn't, it won't survive. And the British brand has spent too much of its seventy year history barely surviving. Time for something different: time for this, the Lotus Eletre. With this performance SUV, the British brand reinvents itself as an electric performance car maker, in the process leap-frogging rivals Ferrari and Aston Martin, both yet to take that final step. Three other uber-fast Lotus EVs are set to follow by 2025, including the Evija hypercar. It's all a far cry from the Lotus of just a few years ago, a cottage British brand hand-building lightweight little sports cars for the few that wanted them. The company's acquisition by Chinese giant Geely in 2017 changed all that. Now, Lotus is so well funded that its boss Matt Hindle has been poached from Tesla and it has a dedicated Lotus Technology Centre in Coventry 'for the creation of lifestyle cars', of which the Eletre is the first. Impressively, instead of merely borrowing a platform from fellow Geely brands Volvo and Polestar, Lotus has created its own, the 'Electric Premium Architecture'. And manufacturing will take place at the Geely plant in Wuhan, China which will eventually be putting out up to 50,000 examples of this car a year. A whole new world for Lotus then. Would you want to be a part of it? Read on.
The Electra is indeed a Lotus through and through - which is an enormous achievement given how far it deviates from anything the brand has previously offered. Even Lotus can't avoid the use of heavy EV architecture, but everything that could be made lighter has been in pursuit of a new standard of driving involvement for this class of car. The way the Electra looks and the way it feels inside will also draw in those who've enjoyed the idea of a Lotus from afar but never been able to justify owning one. And it comes with the kind of technology that prior to the Geely take-over the brand could only dream about. Everything's different then, but fortunately, some things are still the same.
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