{"id":149995,"date":"2020-07-07T14:51:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T18:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=149995"},"modified":"2020-07-07T15:03:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T19:03:31","slug":"who-cares-about-0-60-lotus-evija-will-hit-186-in-9-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2020\/07\/who-cares-about-0-60-lotus-evija-will-hit-186-in-9-seconds\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Cares About 0-60? Lotus Evija Will Hit 186 in 9 Seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lotus claims the Evija will be the world’s most powerful road car.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Still think electric vehicles are slow and stodgy? You might change your mind \u2013 fast \u2013 after checking out some numbers from Lotus.<\/p>\n

The British brand, long known for its exotic, high-performance sports cars, is betting big on electrification, the new Lotus Evija scheduled to become its first long-range model to reach showrooms.<\/p>\n

Punching out nearly 2,000 horsepower through all four wheels, the plan is to launch from zero all the way up to 186 mph in a neck-snapping 9 seconds.<\/p>\n

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(New Lotus Evija \u2013 200 mph electric supercar will set you back $2 million.)<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Yep, within 9 seconds you\u2019ll be moving at a pace of more than three miles a minute. If that is a little rich for your blood, chief Lotus test driver Gavin Kershaw told the British publication Top Gear that the electric hypercar will make 124 mph in under 6 seconds. And, yes, it will be quick to 60, as well, though the automaker doesn\u2019t appear to be worried about setting a record there.<\/p>\n

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The Evija will hit 186 mph more than 3 seconds faster than the Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not challenging the laws of physics, going below two seconds to 62 mph (or 100 kmh), and then having a low top speed,\u201d explained Kershaw. \u201cWe positioned the bandwidth of the motor to where we want the performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s been a big shift for automakers of late. Where they once positioned battery powertrain technology almost exclusively as a way to go green, the current mindset is to focus as much on performance as on energy efficiency. Just look at Toyota, which has positioned the plug-in RAV4 Prime as the most powerful and quickest version of the compact SUV.<\/p>\n

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The biggest challenge, with that much power, is getting the wheels to stick to pavement during a hard launch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That strategy is all the more apparent among high-line manufacturers who intend to take advantage of the fact that electric motors produce maximum torque the moment they start spinning. And, given enough juice from today\u2019s increasingly \u201cpower dense\u201d lithium-ion batteries they readily can turn out the sort of power and torque seen from only a handful of vehicles using a conventional internal combustion drivetrain.<\/p>\n

(Can the Lotus Evija spark the brand\u2019s revival?<\/strong><\/em>)<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Lotus Evija. If it meets those numbers when it goes into production would handily outperform the quickest vehicle now on the road, reaching 186 mph more than three seconds faster than the Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport, which needs a comparatively slow 12.4 seconds to get there.<\/p>\n

As with most current and planned electric hypercars, the Lotus Evija will rely on a single-speed gearbox, something all the more impressive when one considers the bandwidth it will cover. But it does require some minor compromises, as Kershaw noted. Tesla, on the other hand, appears to be focused on achieving the world\u2019s fastest launch time for a street-legal production vehicle, CEO Elon Musk promising a sub-2 second 0-60 launch for the second-generation Roadster. While the drivetrain itself should be more than capable enough, the real challenge will be getting the tires to hook up with the pavement.<\/p>\n

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Drive a bit more sedately, Lotus claims, and you’ll get 250 miles per charge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While automakers have learned how to produce four-figure power from gas engines, electrics appear to be pushing into territory far beyond what anything practical and street legal would be capable of. The 2021 Lotus Evija is expected to punch out a ful 1,972 hp and 1,253 pound-feet of torque. And that will be enough to push through the 200 mph barrier, though the automaker has yet to release a top speed.<\/p>\n

With relatively few places to push the limits of performance, several other numbers are worth considering. For starters, the British marque claims Evija\u2019s 70 kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery will manage 250 miles per charge \u2013 though that\u2019s a European test cycle number and would likely come down a bit using the EPA standard. Equally impressive, Lotus claims it will be able to fully recharge in as little as 18 minutes, a figure that appears to depend upon access to the latest, 350 kW quick chargers that are only just starting to pop up around the world. No word on charging times with lower power chargers.<\/p>\n

(Lotus moves ahead with plans for electric vehicles.)<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re interested, you can get in line to buy one of the first cars scheduled to reach showrooms late this year. Don\u2019t wait long, as only 130 are scheduled for production. But here\u2019s the biggest figure of all, the Lotus Evija will set you back around $2.2 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lotus Evija promises to be the world’s fastest production car, its 2,000 hp all-electric drivetrain launching it from 0 to 186 mph in under 9 seconds. More from TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,12,9],"tags":[],"make":[78],"post-state":[],"category_old":[118,286,150,151,123,287,133,300,319,289,155,299,237,132,125,139,162,291,288],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149995"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=149995"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=149995"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=149995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}