Lotus developing new electric sports car

Lotus is laboring on an electric sports car to compete with Tesla’s Roadster and Fisker’s Karma. The CEO of Lotus, Michael Kimberley, said the company is already “working on the technologies that will go behind” the electric Lotus, and that buyers should not be “surprised to see an electric Lotus shortly”.The news emerges after the latest revealing of the Lotus Evora 4-seater, for which there is already a long list of celebrities expressing interest.

The Evora and the latest electric Lotus are part of an expanded thrust to make broad Lotus’ model lineup and boost the reach of its sales, and the firm has put in around £60 million ($88 million) to design technologies that will enhance the total efficiency of its lineup, the Financial Times reports.
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DinamoR - 1/2/2009 4:48:23 PM

+1 Boost

who isn't designing electric sports cars these days? the revolution started.

My job as an architect is to design buildings that can replace gas stations as the source of power for cars. We can already get it done, 5-10 years from now it will be much much easier and cheaper.