It looks like Lotus is moving forward in its hybrid car development. The Evora 414E, which debuted in Geneva so many moons ago, is now being tested for its durability and drivability at the Lotus HQ in Hethel.
In case you didn’t know, the Evora 414E is a range extender hybrid electric vehicle. The raw numbers are such: 414 PS and 1000 Nm of torque. Yes, 1000 Nm, which lends to the 0-97 km/h (0-60 mph) time of around four seconds. And it farts just 55g CO2/km.
The car powered by two electric motor packs driving the rear wheels through the Xtrac transmission with a batter pack that be charged by the engine or plug-in from a main socket. The engine is a three-cylinder range extender engine can run on either petrol or renewable bio alcohol fuels (methanol and ethanol).
This Lotus drives an EVO electric generator that produces electricity to charge the battery pack or power the EVO traction motors directly. The sports car will run solely on electricity for up to 48 km (30 miles), under normal driving circumstances. Hard acceleration will call upon the small engine and the electrical motors to bring more speed to the car.
Simon Corbett, Principal Vehicle Dynamics Test and Development Engineer, said that the acceleration in a 1000 Nm lightweight car ‘is almost indescribable, the surge of torque is like an ocean wave!’
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crazy torque
1000 Nm must be crazy..
does the 3-cylinder engine share the same characteristic with ford’s ecoboost engine as the latter’s is more powerful but save fuel?
dont think this car will come in 2013…coz we will miss the tax incentive.
With or without tax u got money ha? Walaweii
awesome!!!
eeerr,….electric sports car?? cammon built electric car for normal every day use……stop sucking up Duit Rakyat Malaysia….
what duit rakyat? proton is now 100% private which in turn the same for lotus too. please find new stick for your argument.
Haha!
Nice one Chris.. “and it farts”
Nice catchy words. Btw, this car is awesome. Top Gear must be drooling right now. A Tesla killer for now.
kalau berani jual la 50k, ha ha
torque is soo massssiveee!!!
The Lotus Range Extender Engine is a 1.2 litre 3 cylinder engine.
So, I’m thinking of full tax exemption price in Malaysia
RM199k perhaps
I think i wanna buy one when available on market… but… the problem is.. there’s no electric charging point/station in Malaysia lol. :P
No electric charging station required. Only need petrol to run the engine that generates the electric to run the electric motors.
Lotus Range Extender is the same Lotus Engineering used for Proton EMAS drive-train…..
I hope new owner (drb-hicom)for Proton-Lotus can bring EMAS-City Car Concept into production ASAP!
Any chance of proton picking up the same hybrid tech? :)
P1 won awards for this technology, when they planted the reev in the exora.. (not evora eh)
already in evora. except different engine and motor.
Evora’s design looks modern when it first launch.. Now.. urgh..
I guess some cars has it, some don’t, i.e the Elise (looks great after so many years) :/