Throughout an occasion in New York Metropolis this night, Lotus Vehicles has formally unveiled its subsequent all-electric mannequin, a hyper GT referred to as the Emeya. Along with debuting as Lotus’ second-ever BEV, the Emeya can be the automaker’s first 4-door hyper-GT and is a few boasting some spectacular specs out of the gate.

Lotus Vehicles is a UK-based automaker owned by Geely who assists within the model’s BEV manufacturing in China at a new $1.2 billion manufacturing unit. In 2021, Lotus introduced a full transition into electrical autos and shared a pipeline that introduces a brand new mannequin every year by 2026.

This started with an E-segment SUV codenamed Sort 132 we might come to know because the Eletre, which is beginning to present face at massive auto occasions around the globe like Goodwood and Monterey Automobile Week. Right here’s how the opposite incoming BEV fashions break down:

• 2023 – E-segment four-door coupe, “Sort 133”
• 2025 – “Sort 134,” a brand new D-segment SUV
• 2026 – All-new electrical sports activities automobile, “Sort 135”

As we hone in on the ultimate quarter of 2023, we’ve been anticipating a have a look at Lotus’ subsequent EV for fairly a while, particularly because it’s a four-door – a design you wouldn’t essentially anticipate from the sports activities automobile developer. Lotus had remained comparatively mum about “Sort 133” till final week, after we acquired some shadowy video and an official mannequin title – the Emeya.

This night within the new york, Lotus formally unveiled the Emeya hyper-GT, kicking off a three-day “immersive expertise” that may quickly open to the general public.

Blah, blah, blah, shush up, Scooter, let’s see the pics. Okay, honest. Right here you go… oh, and don’t overlook the video on the backside!

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Behold! The Emeya – Lotus’ first-ever four-door hyper grand tourer. At first look, it appears to be like aerodynamic as hell and its maker is saying as a lot, though it has not shared an official drag coefficient but.

Lotus describes the brand new Emeya’s low heart of gravity as a “hyperstance” – certainly one of a number of situations during which the automaker says it has mixed its 75 years of expertise in engineering and design with leading edge applied sciences. For instance, the Emeya can be outfitted with energetic exterior elements, together with its entrance grille (first seen on the Eletre BEV), rear diffuser, and a dual-layer rear spoiler providing a web downforce over 215 kg (474 lbs).

Its air suspension is electronically managed and underpinned by sensors that really feel the highway 1,000 instances per second, routinely adjusting to make sure a easy journey worthy of the model’s badge. Lotus Group’s vice chairman of design Ben Payne elaborated:

This can be a Lotus like you have got by no means seen earlier than. We’ve constructed on the whole lot 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.

Cool, however what about specs? That is an all-electric hyper-GT in any case…

Lotus shared that the Emeya’s “prime specification mannequin” will characteristic a high-power dual-motor setup that may speed up from 0-100km/h (0-62 mph) in underneath 2.8 seconds and attain a prime pace of 250 km/h (155 mph). We’re unsure why the automaker phrased the configuration as such – maybe we additionally see a single motor RWD model? Lotus declined to remark.

The motors are powered by a 102 kWh battery pack inside a 800V BEV platform – identical because the Eletre, however not the light-weight LEVA platform we’ll seemingly see beneath future Lotus fashions. Both manner, this hyper-GT can regain 150km (93 mi) of vary in 5 minutes cost at a 350 kW DC quick charger and replenish 10-80% in a blistering 18 minutes.

As for official Emeya vary – effectively, we’re going to have to attend a bit on that as Lotus isn’t even sharing targets simply but. Lotus says it is going to share extra particulars in This fall of this 12 months, together with market availability and that different ever-so-important tidbit of data – pricing. Manufacturing is anticipated to start in 2024.

If you happen to’re in NYC, you will get your self a ticket to see the brand new Lotus Emeya up shut this Saturday, September 9 – at the least whereas tickets are nonetheless out there. If not, the very best we will give you is the launch video under. Get pleasure from!

Electrek’s Take

With as we speak’s debut, Lotus’ first two BEVs have been an SUV and a four-door. I can’t consider higher proof than this isn’t the posh sports activities automobile producer of the previous, however one with eyes on the long run – and one that’s hardened by the sheer measurement and manufacturing prowess of Geely.

Final month, I visited San Francisco to satisfy with Lotus’ chief industrial officer, Mike Johnstone, who talked me by the corporate’s daring technique to scale from constructing roughly 1,500 Lotus vehicles globally a 12 months, to over 150,000 5 years from now. Johnstone shared the next throughout my interview:

With efficiency manufacturers, everybody is aware of what they stand for, however I believe there are some prospects saying ‘the place’s the EV although?’ So we’re on this very nice place for the time being and it’s tremendous vital for us to take advantage of the chance the place there’s a scarcity of EVs coming from the efficiency facet, but we’ve acquired a transparent model that stands for one thing and we wish to get that throughout to as many individuals as effectively.

We’ve seen a variety of customers that had been already Lotus followers who wish to purchase an electrified product. They’ve already purchased into the model, however what they’re on the lookout for is one thing that represents their values when it comes to dealing with and efficiency, which it does. For us, it’s connecting the efficiency to the electrification, as a result of electrification brings with it a variety of efficiency, significantly in terms of pace. Clearly, the dealing with that comes with it as effectively is admittedly key, so we’re making an attempt to be actually clear with folks in that that is an electrified product, however it’s nonetheless a Lotus.

So in a variety of methods, the Emeya doesn’t simply signify a brand new design for Lotus Vehicles, however a dual-motor zig towards a bigger buyer market. With an SUV and a 4-door, Lotus is trying to propel itself from David to Goliath and turn out to be a worldwide competitor in efficiency EV gross sales.

We like to see it.