Friends who are more familiar with cars should know the Lotus brand, born in the United Kingdom in 1948, mainly manufacturing high-performance sports cars and racing cars, everyone once said that the "Lotus Sports Car" is it.
Although it seems to be very small and the popularity is really not high, Lotus is one of the three luxury supercar brands that are really on par with Porsche and Ferrari. Here we have to deny the fact that on the street, we can see more and more Porsches and Ferraris, but Lotus hardly sees it, after the proton group acquired Lotus, it began to decline, and its presence in the market was getting lower and lower, until 2017, Geely bought 51% of lotus from Malaysians, lotus was once again active in the market, at least the heat is up.
In 2021, Lotus released its last fuel sports car, the Emira, as the finale of its fuel era, followed by a new era of electrification for Lotus.
What's more interesting is that Lotus, the seedling who built a sports car, was pulled by Geely to build an SUV. In Lotus's previous planning, it said that from 2022, it will launch an E-class pure electric smart SUV, and now it is also a promise, and recently its first pure electric HYPER SUV model ELETRE officially ushered in the world premiere.
The exterior shape of the Lotus ELETRE is very similar to that of the Lamborghini Urus, with a large number of aerodynamic designs, the front face is equipped with an active air intake grille, with split headlights, and the front surround is also added with carbon fiber front lip components, which is very visually impactful.
The sides look powerful, with a hidden door handle design, and the rear of the car is equipped with an active lifting tail and a split top spoiler.
The interior part is very interesting, Lotus ELETRE and Extreme Kr 001 are very similar, but Lotus ELETRE has 5 screens in the entire car, including two 12.6-inch monitors for the main/co-pilot, a 15.1-inch OLED central control touch screen (which can be automatically retracted when not in use), a 29-inch AR HUD display and a rear 9-inch control panel, and the luxury and technology atmosphere are still very good.
In terms of power, the new car adopts the industry's top 800V electrical architecture, and adopts the front and rear dual motor drive, code-named EDS2 high-power high-torque motor, the comprehensive maximum output of more than 600 horsepower, WLTP under the working conditions of the cruising range of 600 kilometers, 0-100km/h acceleration time only 2.95 seconds.
Although Lotus is famous for building sports cars and racing cars, the speed of lotus ELETRE's pure electric SUV still surprised us, after all, its tuning skills in the performance of the vehicle track have a deep foundation.
In addition, lotus ELETRE features a five-link independent suspension, with standard components including air suspension and Continuous Shock Absorption Control (CDC) to enhance handling.
Overall, lotus ELETRE has surprises in terms of interior and exterior design, as well as acceleration performance, which makes people look forward to it very much.
More importantly, this brand carries geely cars to do ultra-luxury dreams, you see the beauty leopard, China Dragon are Geely automobile's attempts on the ultra-luxury market road, but for various reasons to return home, now bet on Lotus can also let Geely quickly get a traffic window, active in the high-end luxury market segment. Perhaps Lotus ELETRE can really ride the trend of new energy to stand out in the market, we will wait and see.
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