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In the past few months, the release of Lotus ELETRE has touched the eyes of many people. But this time we want to get to a few keywords, pure electric and "domestic export". After these two core keywords GET, we can start to introduce the car.
To be precise, Lotus ELETRE is an important step in the transformation of the Lotus brand. After all, Lotus has always built lightweight sports cars, which is why Lotus has not been running too well and has been changing hands. Until 2016, after Geely acquired proton and obtained the shares of Lotus in the hands of Proton, Geely felt that Lotus had transformed into a luxury sports car brand, mainly with Porsche as the benchmark.
The exact same financial operating conditions as Porsche have led Lotus (Geely) to choose the same road as Porsche and other sports car brands, that is, to build SUVs. Looking at the sports car market, Porsche, Lamborghini, and Aston Martin are very good examples of the past, they are all turning over after the launch of the SUV model, and the Lotus SUV is also stuck.
Lotus's choice to make the SUV into a tram is also lotus (Geely)'s strategy, Lotus's comprehensive electrification transformation is happening now, and Geely Group's electric vehicle architecture is enough, Lotus's operable space is also large, do not have to develop its own platform like Porsche to create a Taycan, and even want to combine Volvo's chassis and Lotus's body in the future. The reason why Geely does this is actually to build its own electric high-end car brand.
Looking at the appearance, Lotus's convention is to play aerodynamic belongs to whether it is the Evija Hypercar or the ELETRE SUV can see countless large ventilation ducts to reduce air resistance. The two holes in the front cover are not only aerodynamically optimized things, but also the unified presentation of Lotus's generation of design languages, and everyone has the same matryoshka design as volkswagen.
All Unicom body hollowing is designed for aerodynamics, a look is the traditional art of Lotus, Lotus is not willing to give up such a design in SUV models, you can imagine Lotus's love for aerodynamics. The existence of these designs is definitely more beneficial than harmful, reducing wind resistance to prolong endurance, increasing vehicle stability, and can also give people a kind of scientific and technological beauty. But daily driving is easy to hide dirt and dirt, and washing cars is really fatal.
As things stand, it's entirely possible for Lotus ELETRE to develop using Geely's krypton platform. Personally, I think Lotus uses the Extreme Kr 001 to come up with its own lower-priced Taycan; or vice versa, Extreme Kr's new car can be developed based on lotus ELETRE chassis, replacing Lotus's sporty tuning with comfortable home tuning. So the essence of this problem is actually geely and Lotus in mutual benefit, and may even affect Volvo's future pure electric SUVs.
600 km endurance, 10-80% of the charge point as long as 20 minutes, zero hundred acceleration of 2.95 seconds, very strong. But the horsepower data is not so important to Lotus ELETRE, because the full system of the Extreme Kr 001 is powerful enough, not even afraid of Tesla, the battery is not worried, the core reason is because there is everything in the supply chain. The important thing is that this car can see the future strategic direction and product development of Geely Group.
Looking at the comparison of the interiors, the picture above is the interior of Lotus ELETRE, and the picture below is the interior of Extreme Kr 001. It can be seen that the interior layout of the two can not be said to be different, but it can also be said that they are in the same vein, and some parts can even be generalized in detail. Because of the tonality of the brand and the different directions of the brand products, the two brands have different design ideas, but in general, it is "carved out of a mold".
The interior is very sporty, and the seat belts are yellow. The interior design is the same as the current mainstream new energy vehicles, all of which use the central control to build a large screen, and the rear row is also equipped with a central control screen. The rear seaters are available in 2 and 3 seats, and the front and rear 4-seat models have a bit of a Porsche Pamy feel.
It is currently certain that Lotus's ELETRE will be produced at lotus plant in Wuhan. The evaluation of this car on the Internet is also a variety of opinions, personally I am still more optimistic about this car, after all, from another point of view, domestic brands also have the tone of the Volkswagen Group, it is time to carry the banner of high-end sports car manufacturing!