- Lotus launched two new movies on Instagram teasing its subsequent sports activities automobile idea.
- The idea is named the Idea 1 and can debut in full subsequent week.
- The idea automobile might preview a brand new electrical sports activities automobile for manufacturing in 2027.
Lotus goes electrical, as evidenced by the Emeya SUV and the Eletre sedan. The Emira, in the meantime, is the model’s final gas-powered car and can solely survive one other few years. However that does not imply we can’t get sports activities automobiles underneath Lotus’s new electrification technique. The primary one (at the least an idea of which) debuts on September 17.
Lotus shared two movies on social media previewing the next-gen sports activities automobile. Lotus calls it the Idea 1 and tosses out phrases like “analog” and “pure” to explain it, meant to harken again to the automaker’s glory days.
From what we will see within the teaser, the car has slim taillight bars on both aspect of a “LOTUS” wordmark. There is a Kammback-style rear finish and an aggressive spoiler perched on prime of it. It definitely would not seem like an Emeya or Eletre from these angles.
The title Idea 1 suggests that is only a idea, however one that might preview an eventual manufacturing supercar or sports activities automobile. A brand new Lotus coupe was due in 2027—which the corporate codenamed the Sort 135—however it might be pushed again resulting from battery know-how points. That EV would tackle the upcoming Porsche Boxster / Cayman EV.
Rumors steered this electrical sports activities automobile would have 469 horsepower in base kind and as much as 872 horsepower with the dual-motor mannequin, whereas beginning at underneath $100,000. It could exchange the Elise and Emira within the lineup, and use the Lotus LEVA (Light-weight Electrical Car Structure) platform.
We’ll have to attend and see if this electrical Lotus truly involves fruition.
