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Here’s how Lotus is going to build lightweight electric sports cars

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 […]

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Morphing bodywork among Lotus’ ideas for a future electric race car

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 […]