Lotus Cars is developing a lightweight electric vehicle architecture for sports cars. It uses a die-cast rear subframe that packages the drive unit. For two-seaters, the battery pack goes behind the passenger compartment. [credit: Lotus Cars ] Of all the automakers that are undergoing the transformation from internal combustion to electric propulsion, few have my […]
The Lotus Emira will be unveiled in early July, and it’s going to be the last new Lotus with an internal combustion engine. [credit: Lotus ] Car enthusiasts have been wondering for a while now what’s next for Lotus Cars. The British carmaker is best-known for lightweight sports cars, but it’s probably nearly as well-known […]
This is the Lotus E-R9, an interpretation of what an electric endurance race car might look like in 2030. [credit: Lotus ] Regular readers will know that we’re pretty enthusiastic about the future of Lotus, the UK-based maker of lightweight sports cars. Beset by financial troubles for much of its existence, Lotus Group is now […]
Enlarge / A Volvo XC90 SUV following a crash test in Sweden. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) At the end of January, safety researchers at the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety published a study showing that small increases in speed have big consequences during a crash. After crashing three identical […]