Lotus Cars, 51% owned by the Chinese holding company Geely, named Emeya the third electric model, formerly known as factory Type 133 index. The Lotus Emeya will debut next week, sharing the EPA platform with the Lotus Eletre crossover and launching in China. lane towards electric vehicles. In fact, Lotus will soon have nothing but electric cars left: the Emira sports car, which debuted in the spring of 2021, became the company’s last “hydrocarbon” model, and the flagship Evija electric supercar opened the electric era in 2019.
If the Lotus Evija was developed by the British almost entirely on their own, then the Eletre crossover, which premiered last year, is already using the technological power of the Geely holding with might and main. At the heart of the Eletre is a Lotus Electric Premium Architecture (EPA) modular skateboard platform with a flat battery in the floor. At the time of the premiere of Eletre, the Lotus press service did not indicate the connection of this platform with Geely, but in later press releases from the Chinese company it is already said in black and white that EPA is a derivative of the SEA (Sustainable Experience Architecture) modular platform developed by Geely , well known to us from the new Jidu, Polestar, Radar, smart, Volvo and Zeekr models.
Official Lotus Emeya teaser < p>According to British magazine Autocar, which cites Lotus Cars managing director Matt Windle and commercial director Mike Johnston, the Emeya will also be based on the EPA platform and will likely share the technical stuffing with the Eletre crossover, the top version of which has a twin-engine power plant with combined power. 918 HP
The Lotus press service has not yet reported any technical details about Emeya, but only positions the new product as Fully Electric Hyper-GT. It is not even clear yet whether Emeya will have a sedan or liftback body. In the photographs of camouflaged prototypes that Autocar publishes, the fifth tailgate connector is clearly visible, but it may be a dummy. In any case, it is clear that the Lotus Emeya will compete with such powerful four-seat electric cars as the Porsche Taycan, Aehra Sedan and Polestar 5.
Lotus Emeya, rendered by kolesa.ru
Polestar is also owned by the Geely holding, but Lotus representatives, with whom Autocar magazine spoke, assure that there will be little in common between Polestar 5 and Lotus Emeya and that Geely management gives its subsidiaries quite a lot of creative freedom.
The Emeya will be approximately 5m long, with active aerodynamic bodywork (the video teaser shows a movable rear spoiler), an air-sprung chassis with full control, and the most luxurious interior in Lotus history.
Lotus Emeya, rendered by kolesa.ru
In 2025, a junior electric crossover with the factory index Type 134 will appear in the Lotus range, in 2026 — a new electric sports car Type 135 on a completely original modular E-Sports platform, which he was supposed to share with the new Alpine A110, but last spring it turned out that the partnership between Alpine and Lotus had broken up, the French electric sports car is another “cart” (which one is still unknown).
Lotus is already working on new products that will be released after 2026, but information about them is still kept in the strictest confidence. In general, by the end of the decade, Lotus should become a full-fledged competitor to Porsche in terms of business scale and production volumes.
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