Brands that only make supercars have engaged in pure electric SUVs, what kind of performance is there?
Recently, Lotus's first pure electric supercar SUV Eletre was officially unveiled, which is Lotus's first five-door mass production car, the first lifestyle pure electric vehicle, and finally made a supercar Lotus, after all, it has entered the "mass" consumer market.
To be precise, the Eletre is Lotus's second pure electric pure electric model, released the first pure electric supercar EVIJA in 2019, and released the brand's last fuel sports car EMIRA in 2021, and there will be no new lotus fuel models on the market after that.
The Wuhan smart factory is put into operation and delivered next year
As we all know, Lotus is a world-famous sports car and racing car brand, once translated as "Lotus" sports car, in 2011 when it entered the Chinese market, it was officially announced that Chinese named "Lotus". On June 23, 2017, it acquired a 51% stake in Lotus Group, and Since then Lotus has belonged to the Geely Group.
Also thanks to the geely group's big hand, Geely for lotus in Wuhan to open intelligent workers, construction began in 2019, full construction in 2020, completed and put into production in 2022, Lotus's first pure electric supercar SUV Eletre will also be officially put into production in the fourth quarter of this year, localization officially landed.
According to the plan, Eletre will roll off the production line as soon as this year and is expected to open delivery next year.
In addition, lotus headquarters global headquarters intelligent manufacturing center is also located in Wuhan, which means that in the future, lotus production, manufacturing, research and development, operation headquarters will gather in Wuhan.
It is worth mentioning that when Lotus Technology was established, it also completed more than 2 billion US dollars in financing, and investors included Weilai Capital. And at the online inauguration ceremony of Lotus Technology, Li Bin, founder and chairman of NIO, attended and delivered a speech as the managing partner of NIO Capital.
At that time, Feng Qingfeng, CEO of Lotus Group, said: In addition to the investment of capital, we will also explore more possibilities for cooperation. In the future of the automotive market, it will not work alone.
The outside world speculates that in addition to capital investment, Weilai is likely to participate in lotus technology research and development, development strategy and other more core parts.
EPA edge evolution architecture to create: low center of gravity, high performance
Based on the evolutionary architecture of EPA edge, Lotus Eletre can adapt to batteries, motors, software layouts and track-level intelligent driving technology from C+ class to E+ class models.
The architecture has two core advantages: the 800V architecture, the chassis structure with a low center of gravity and the three-electric layout.
Among them, the 800V architecture enables both performance and endurance, and the chassis structure with low center of gravity and the layout of the three electrics are mainly Lotus's advanced concepts in how to continue the sports attributes of electric vehicles.
From the perspective of endurance, Eletre's battery pack capacity will exceed 100kWh, and the WLTP working range will reach 600km, which is quite considerable as a high-performance SUV. At the same time, the battery system also supports a 350kW fast charging system, which can supplement the 400km endurance in 20 minutes.
From a performance point of view, the Lotus Eletre series is equipped with a four-wheel drive system consisting of two motors in front and rear, with a maximum power of more than 600hp (imperial horsepower, about 608.3Ps) and can accelerate in 2.95 seconds to complete 0-100km/h.
In addition, Eletre is equipped with 6D chassis technology, integrated air suspension, CDC continuous damping control shock absorption, active stabilizer bar, rear wheel steering, braking system, and vehicle stability control system, the first two are standard in the series, plus Range, Tour, Sport, Off-Road and Indevidual four driving modes, you can believe that a supercar brand, on this supercar SUV shows the strength of the handling performance.
Supercar SUV play smart? Retractable design on the lidar arrangement
It's 2022, and if Lotus's car is still simply stuck on the track gene, it will be too unsmooth. In terms of intelligence, Eletre is the first model equipped with Lotus track-level intelligent driving system, of which 4 128-line lidar are installed.
Interestingly, Eletre's four lidars are positioned in the center of the front wheels on both sides of the front wheel and the front and rear of the roof, and adopt a telescopic design, which is automatically retracted into the car when not needed to prevent the impact of aerodynamic effects, and can also be accidentally injured when driving on the track, gravel road and other scenes.
In terms of the functions that can be achieved now, Eletre can realize intelligent adaptive cruise control, front collision mitigation, traffic sign recognition, door opening warning system, cross vehicle collision hazard alarm, parking emergency braking, rear collision mitigation, etc., and it is also relatively early, and more functions can be opened through OTA.
In terms of smart cockpits, Eletre is equipped with two 8155 chips, which are the best performance autopilot chips that car companies can buy at present, and there is no one.
It is worth mentioning that the Eletre cockpit design is not as full of combat power as its exterior design, but to the sense of technology and luxury, such as the car is equipped with 5 digital meters + 2 streaming media rearview mirrors, plus mood lights, the interior is less athletic and more luxurious.
Written at the end: Some people say that Eletre is like the Lamborghini Urus, and some people say that it is like the Dongfeng Fengxing EVO, and the tube is like anything, it is a brand new model with a Lotus logo.
Although the Eletre is only the second pure electric model under Lotus, its energy is stronger than many new forces of star car manufacturing, and it can more professionally show aerodynamics and track-level driving genes, which are incomparable to any other brand at this stage.
But there's no denying that Eletre won't be cheap either. Moreover, Lotus has just begun the electrification transformation, and whether Eletre, as a hybrid, can play the electrification market remains to be verified.