LOTUS has unveiled one more excessive efficiency totally electrical ‘E’ automobile, referred to as the Emeya, breaking cowl this week at Lotus’ Studio Emeya, a three-day immersive expertise in New York Metropolis to showcase the brand new flagship.
It joins a brace of different Lotus electrical sports activities fashions: Eletre, Emira and Evija, with extra within the pipeline given proprietor Geely’s acknowledged intentions for the model (to make it worthwhile).
The Emeya is a “hyper” grand tourer (GT) ostensibly designed for that quick blast down the autoroute from Paris to the French Riviera (or comparable) one thing that’s completely overseas right here in 110km/h velocity restricted Australia.
The brand new BEV “brings collectively the corporate’s wealthy historical past, with sports activities automobile ranges of efficiency and newest applied sciences,” says Lotus.
It’s claimed to be one of many quickest electrical GTs on this planet, with acceleration from 0-100km/h in below 2.8 seconds.
Emeya arrives as a flagship mannequin within the Lotus line-up of luxurious efficiency electrical autos.
On the New York occasion, Lotus’ CEO, Feng Qingfeng commented, “Bringing collectively our wealthy heritage with clever efficiency and the newest cutting-edge applied sciences, we’re pushing the boundaries for the way a luxurious electrical car ought to look and deal with– making it really for the drivers”.
Lotus tells us the Emeya units a brand new benchmark for the way a Lotus drives and feels by combining the corporate’s 75-year experience in engineering and design, with the newest superior improvements – bringing drivers an electrical automobile that’s thrilling to drive and performs exceptionally.
Nevertheless, the unique Lotus mantra, coined by founder Colin Chapman went… “including energy makes you quicker on the straights, subtracting weight makes you quicker in every single place”.
It now appears redundant given the load of all BEVs together with these from Lotus.
However the iconic sports activities automobile maker is adamant its superior and lively aerodynamic options such because the pioneering lively entrance grille, rear diffuser and rear spoiler will carry the day. Notably when mixed with a low centre of gravity that Lotus calls ‘hyperstance’, that enhances stability when driving, and “units a brand new normal within the GT phase for trip and dealing with excellence”.
Digital controls abound on Emeya beginning with the air suspension system with superior, on-board sensors that “really feel” the highway 1000 occasions a second and routinely, electronically alter the car to make sure a easy trip.
In high spec’ Emeya we discover Lotus’ high-power twin motor set-up that delivers a high velocity of greater than 250km/h to go together with its hair straightening 0-100km/h time.
On the battery charging aspect, travelling Emeya house owners will be capable of relaxation assured they’ve entry to what Lotus calls “market-leading charging capabilities” which will add 150km of vary in roughly 5 minutes of cost utilizing a 350kW DC quick charger, in addition to increase vary as much as 80 per cent inside 18 minutes.
Including to its enviro’ credentials, Emeya has been designed with sustainable supplies which can be additionally sustainably sourced to cut back its carbon footprint. It features a new luxurious thread created from repurposed fibres from the style trade in addition to PVD aluminium, Alcantara, Nappa leather-based, and Ultrafabrics PU.
As befits a real GT automobile the Emeya boasts an occupant pleasing music expertise by its immersive audio system developed with KEF with a speaker system that may “elevate music listening to new ranges”.
It options KEF’s award-winning Uni-Q speaker design and Uni-Core space-saving subwoofer enclosure, in addition to Dolby Atmos-enabled 3D encompass sound – first seen in a Lotus on the Eletre hyper-SUV.
Vice-president of design, Lotus Group, Ben Payne stated, “This can be a Lotus like you’ve by no means seen earlier than. We’ve constructed on every little thing Lotus has achieved to this point to create a luxurious efficiency automobile for the drivers, designed to encourage confidence, exhilarate with uncooked emotion and pure pleasure – connecting them to the highway”.
Lotus will begin Emeya manufacturing a while in 2024 with no specifics offered till This autumn this 12 months suffice to say it’s extremely prone to be in-built China as is the Lotus Eletre electrical SUV with which it has by-product styling cues and shares different elements.
