Lotus positioned the Eletre as the world's first pure electric Hyper SUV.
If you use the word Baidu Hyper, the most direct translation is Super. In the automotive circle it is often synonymous with high performance, like lamborghini Urus, Maserati Levante Trofeo, Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT, are representative of Hyper SUVs.
For Lotus, wanting a car to be linked to high performance is its housekeeping skill.
But unlike many sedan brands that make SUVs, Lotus has to work harder to match the word Hyper.
Even though the Eletre has a length, width and height of 5103/2019/1630mm and a wheelbase of 3019mm, this SUV doesn't look bulky or silly.
The ferocious split lights, the sharp fangs, the proportion of the tram that moves forward in the cockpit, and the overly rich variations of the surface make it look boring—compared to the medium-sized and large SUVs like warriors with thick blood tanks but slow movements, the Eletre is more like an assassin shuttling through the canyons, coming and going without a trace, good at breaking through, and explosive.
It's not Galen, it's the Sword Saint.
In fact, however, as a friend of the wind, lotus Eletre's aggressive appearance is also full of pragmatic thinking that can make this car run faster.
The role of these aerodynamic designs that became part of the Eletre modeling is explained in detail in the film of the Eletre conference.
How difficult it is to innovate in aerodynamic design, just look at the helpless performance of Mei Ben in F1 this season. It was thought that the sideless box design would allow airflow to reach the tail area faster to reduce drag, but the reality that 7-time champion Hamilton could only be ranked tenth in Saudi Arabia made the bold and innovative Mei Ben pay a small price.
Coupled with the fact that after the return of the ground effect, mei Ben, who was once proud of the crowd, also became helpless in the face of aerodynamics.
If the pioneer of the ground effect, Colin Chapman, is still there, there should still be a unique solution to the problem.
After all, the Lotus, which he created, has opened 7 race-Aero air ducts on an electric SUV and achieved a drag coefficient of 0.26 Cd.
Another translation of Hyper is extremely exciting.
If you want to get excited, you have to move fast first. The front and rear dual motors of the Lotus Eletre have a maximum power of 600 horsepower, an acceleration time of 2.95 seconds per 100 kilometers and a maximum speed of 260 kilometers per hour.
Although not as fast as the current 2.6-second acceleration time of the model X Plaid, the fastest SUV currently in production, the Lotus Eletre is already much faster than the Urus' 3.6 seconds. It's just that the motor horsepower is not enough, and the acceleration performance of the Eletre is inseparable from a 2-speed transmission to obtain a wider optimal power range for the motor.
Of course, if the acceleration performance of fuel and pure electricity is really not comparable from a technical point of view, but in terms of price and experience, Eletre is indeed more worthy of the title of Hyper.
The Eletre also features one-Box braking system, air suspension, CDC, active anti-roll bar, rear wheel steering, concealed door handles, optional 23-inch wheels, and 10-piston carbon-ceramic brake calipers, all of which are also features of the Hyper Experience.
As a pure electric SUV, the Eletre is equipped with a 100kWh battery pack, a maximum range of 600 kilometers under the WLTP standard, and an 800V electrical architecture, which can achieve 20 minutes of supplementary travel of 400 kilometers under a charging power of 350kW.
In addition to the fast speed of the car, the speed of replenishment must also be fast. The 800V high voltage did not give the same emphasis on performance polestar, did not appear on the pro-son krypton 001, but was started by Lotus Eletre, which can also show Geely's strategic support for Lotus to promote the electrification transformation of the group.
As for Polar Star, both product and marketing are too far from the actual needs of the Chinese market. With lessons from the past, Lotus, led by the Chinese side, is creating different effects in the same market segment.
Including the understanding and expression of intelligence.
Hyper also has a translation that is highly stressful.
For Eletre, you can understand it as being in a tight state of surveillance of the surrounding road conditions at all times.
Although Eletre was born from the EPA architecture independently developed by Lotus, it is obviously indispensable to the support of Geely Group in terms of development costs, procurement resources and application ecology.
After all, the intelligent experience is the most in line with the needs of the Chinese car brand, 90% in China.
In addition to the 15.1-inch central control screen + 9-inch rear screen + the main co-pilot's two 12.6-inch long gauges + 29-inch AR HUD projection, Lotus Eletre also has foldable central control and rear display, streaming media rearview mirror display display located on both sides of the door panel, dual Qualcomm 8155 chip with built-in computing power of 2.2 GFLOPS, and is compatible with 5G network, support OTA upgrades and voice recognition, which is not like the style of an old British brand.
In terms of intelligent driving performance, Lotus Eletre is equipped with 4 128-line lidar, 7 8MP cameras, 6 millimeter wave radars, 4 2MP surround view cameras, 12 ultrasonic radars and an in-car camera, as well as 2 Nvidia 7nm Orin chips with a computing power of 508 TOPS.
Lidar is a big trend, but the bicycle is equipped with 4, or the only Eletre. Although the lidar figure cannot be seen from the renderings of Eletre, the design scheme of Eletre using telescopic lidar can be clearly seen through this GIF.
Compared with many friends who have a headache for the roof lidar modeling to produce unnecessary wind resistance and wind noise, Lotus, which has raised the priority of aerodynamic design to the highest, obviously hopes to solve the problems of this era through a new idea.
The Eletre front windshield and tail window are covered with four opening and closing plates above the tail window and at the front brow on both sides, which is where the four lidars are hiding. However, how exactly they perform when they are working, we still have to go to the real car to experience.
At the very least, Lotus, which came up with a new solution, did not shy away from thinking about the details of the design, and has always adhered to the original intention of "being a friend of the wind".
Eletre will start production at its Wuhan plant in the second half of this year and will be officially launched next year.
Lotus CEO Feng Qingfeng said that in the next 4 years, Lotus will also have 3 pure electric products available, namely the E-class pure electric intelligent four-door coupe planned to be launched in 2023, the new species of pure electric intelligence launched in 2025 and the pure electric trot launched in 2026.
Apparently, after Eletre, Lotus had more aspirations and actions to interpret the word Hyper. Super, excited or nervous, this Eletre, which is very different and very similar to the previous Lotus, is trying to be worthy of the status of the pioneer of a new species of pure electricity.
Most of the first people to eat crabs will not go well, but Lotus, who has always had the wind behind him as a friend, is really not good to stop.
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