At the Guangzhou Auto Show last year, Lotus officially released its last fuel vehicle, EMIIRA, which also marked the announcement that Lotus is about to officially enter the era of electrification. From time to time, after many months, Lotus Auto officially released its first pure electric SUV model last night - Lotus Eletre, in fact, the birth of Lotus Eletre marks the lotus brand officially ushered in a new era. Lotus Eletre is based on the Lotus EPA platform, positioned in a medium and large SUV, presumably in the price will not be less than 800,000 or so. It is understood that Lotus Eletre will be produced in the Wuhan Smart Factory in China, and will be officially put into production in the second half of this year, and the first users will begin delivery in China, the United Kingdom and other European markets next year.
Although Lotus's first pure electric model started with an SUV, it is necessary to know that from a brand that is rich in sports cars, it will naturally be based on handling and performance, and the aerodynamic design of Lotus's many models has left a deep impression on us, especially the Evija model with 2000 horsepower, and its huge air intakes on both sides run from the door position to the rear.
Having said that, the overall design of Lotus Eletre also inherits a part of Evija's shadow, making it look very aggressive, and the aerodynamic design is still vividly displayed. The front face can be seen that there is also a ventilation channel near the intake grille, and the air duct similar to the Evija model design on the front cabin cover extends out from the center of the front face to improve the aerodynamic performance of the vehicle. In addition, the front lip of the new car is also designed with an active heat dissipation opening, which can provide 51 kg of downforce while maintaining pneumatic properties. In addition, Lotus Eletre also adopts a split light group design, the upper layer is led daytime running lights, which looks very sharp in shape, and the lower layer adopts a hidden design of near and far light groups.
From the side, the new car adopts a double waistline design, and the smooth lines outline a full sense of power. At the same time, on the body color, the new car is also using two-color paint, making the new car more vibrant, of course, in order to have a more concise fluency of the body, the new car also uses a hidden door handle design, which can also help a little on the pneumatic effect. In addition, lotus Eletre is equipped with a small size of electronic rearview mirrors, but for our domestic regulations, traditional electric rearview mirrors will be used. The wheel shape is also very visual, equipped with a 23-inch two-tone blade-type five-fu wheel.
In terms of body size, the Lotus Eletre is 5103mm*2019mm*1630mm long, 2019mm*1630mm, and the wheelbase is 3019mm. It is worth mentioning that the Lotus Eletre is equipped with four 128-line lidars, which are arranged on both sides of the wheel header, the front and rear of the roof, and can achieve a telescopic design, so that the vehicle does not have to worry about affecting the aerodynamic performance during high-speed driving.
You may think that the tail design of the Lotus Eletre will be a bit simple, but in fact it also has a pneumatic design of the entire tail, such as the design of the tail equipped with a two-piece rear spoiler, and also equipped with an active electric rear spoiler, which automatically opens and provides 116 kg of downforce for a pneumatic effect when a certain speed is reached. In addition, in the two sides of the through-LED taillight group, the airway that appears with the front face is designed, which runs from the position of the vehicle D-pillar to the tail, that is, the area on both sides of the taillight is empty and can penetrate to the D-pillar, which just echoes the aerodynamics of the front face to form a perfect aerodynamic effect.
In the past, Lotus's interior design gave us only mechanical, rough mines, no interior design, and everything was focused on control. And when you see lotus Eletre you will be surprised by its interior design, it actually has a sense of luxury and technology. And the entire interior also has a good performance in color matching, the most eye-catching is that the whole car has five digital large screens and 2 streaming mirrors, of which five digital screens are 15.1-inch floating OLED multimedia touch screen on the center console, which has a 1 billion color on-board display; and in the front area of the main driver and co-pilot, each equipped with a 12.6-inch long-line full LCD display and a 29-inch AR The HUD heads up to show the vision system and the foldable 9-inch central screen in the rear.
In terms of technology configuration, lotus Eletre is no less than other luxury high-intelligence pure electric models on the market, it is equipped with 34 driver assistance sensors, 4 lidar, 7 SMP cameras, 6 millimeter wave radar, 4 2MP surround view cameras, 12 ultrasonic radars and an in-car camera. In order to achieve the most efficient operation of the above sensors and cameras, the new car is also equipped with two 8155 chips, which makes the vehicle computer computing power reach 2.2 GFLOPS, and also supports super image rendering, support for 3D images and other functions.
In terms of power, lotus Eletre is equipped with a high-power high-torque motor code-named EDS2, distributed in the front and rear positions of the body, the maximum power will exceed 600 horsepower; while the transmission system is equipped with a two-speed transmission on the rear axle motor, combined with its electronically controlled four-wheel drive system, its zero hundred acceleration time is only 2.95 seconds, and the acceleration from zero to two hundred kilometers will be less than 12 seconds. In addition, in terms of battery packs, Lotus Eletre offers 100kWh battery packs with a cruising range of 600 km under the combined WLTP conditions.
Summary: In the current domestic medium and large SUV pure electric market, Lotus Eletre's opponent is undoubtedly Tesla's Model X and Gaohe HiPhi X, of course, there are other voices that Lotus Eletre is to grab before Cayenne, but in any case, in the medium and large SUV this level of choice is not right, so first of all to nature can quickly seize a place in the market.
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