Since Lotus was acquired by Geely, its own every move has attracted the attention of consumers, after all, Lotus as a supercar brand, its own attention is extremely high, coupled with Geely as one of the head enterprises in the mainland, consumers want to see how Geely makes this supercar brand re-active in people's sight.
Lotus's first model after holding hands with Geely is a pure electric model, in fact, it is not difficult to understand, after all, in the face of the dividends of the times, any company wants to share a piece of the pie, Lotus is naturally no exception.
At 2:30 a.m. on March 30, Lotus released its first pure electric SUV, the Lotus Eletre. The new car is a model developed based on the EPA architecture and positioned as a medium-sized pure electric SUV.
Judging from the current planning of Lotus, the new car will be mass-produced at the Wuhan plant within the year, or will be sold simultaneously with overseas markets next year.
In terms of appearance, the new car continues the unique sharp line design of the supercar, and the overall shape is somewhat similar to the Lamborghini Urus next door, using a large number of air spoiler kits to reduce the wind resistance of the body.
The front face part uses a lot of exaggerated and radical treatments, such as sharp front shovels, concave grilles, and narrow light clusters, etc. the design indicates the properties of its own performance monsters. At the same time, in order to make the overall sense of the front face part stronger, Lotus Eletre chose to hide the vehicle's high and near lights on both sides of the middle net, and this detail also made the front face of the vehicle look more layered.
In addition, two wide grooves can be seen above the cover, which, together with the front shovel design of the front bracket protruding, can provide up to 51kg of downforce for the body, thereby increasing the stability of the vehicle during driving.
From the side of the body, it can be seen that lotus Eletre is a typical coupe-style SUV design, which is also in line with the aesthetic trend of current consumers.
In order to tear off the "bloated" label of the SUV, the body also adopted a two-tone body design, and the design of the upper part of the all-black body created a visual effect of the suspended roof. In addition, concealed door handles, 23-inch two-tone blade wheels and 10-piston carbon-ceramic brake calipers are a testament to the vehicle's outstanding performance.
Unlike the complex tail design of other SUVs, the tail design of lotus Eletre emphasizes the simplicity of the vehicle. In addition to the through-type taillights used to show their sense of technology, no other superfluous lines are used to decorate.
In addition, in order to cater to consumer preferences, it has added a split tail wing design to the roof, coupled with the diffuser under the vehicle and the huge openings on both sides of the through taillights, making it very good in the creation of a sense of performance.
Thanks to Geely's endorsement, such as the irregular flat-bottom steering wheel, through-line light strip, full LCD instrumentation, 15.1-inch large central control display and the co-pilot's long strip LCD display, these full of technology components have appeared on the Lotus Eletre performance SUV.
In addition, in order to reflect the technological sense of the vehicle, Lotus Eletre has 4 lidars, 7 8MP cameras, 6 millimeter wave radars, 4 surround view cameras and 12 ultrasonic radars. It has to be said that this set of hardware facilities makes Lotus Eletre the most technological existence in the performance SUV.
In order to better match these hardware facilities, Lotus Eletre uses two Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 car machine chips to ensure the normal workmanship of the vehicle intelligent system.
As a high-performance SUV produced by Lotus, performance must be an unavoidable topic. Lotus Eletre is equipped with a set of front and rear dual motor four-wheel drive system, officially said that this system can provide a maximum horsepower output of 600Ps, the fastest can complete 0-100Km/h acceleration in 2.95 seconds.
In terms of cruising range, the 100Kwh battery pack guarantees a maximum range of 600 kilometers, which is enough to meet the needs of consumers' usual medium and long-distance travel.
From the current point of view, with Geely to do the endorsement of Lotus, this time is very likely to return to the peak, after all, today's consumption trend is obviously more biased towards new energy, and in the field of new energy, Geely also has a strong accumulation, Plus Lutes itself has a good influence, I believe that it is only a matter of time before it returns to the peak.