In just a few weeks, Lotus will enter a truly new era. The British firm will unveil its first SUV and it will be fully electric. Known as Lambda, and officially as Type 132, the Hethel brand has been launching advances for months, although none like the leaking of these patents that show its design.
The new lotus type 132 This is how the British brand has temporarily called the unprecedented model that it will present at the end of the month. It’s about what it is his first sports SUV, a very high-performance model that will force European competitors to move quickly, and especially the Germans. One of the first models of the new strategy of the Hethel-based sports firm, and that will arrive truly loaded with technology.
Those of Lotus, directed by the Chinese of Geely, have put the batteries never better said starting the house from the foundations as it should be. The new zero emissions model is based on a completely new electric car platformand which we now know as lotus lambda. Despite the fact that its presentation is practically imminent, and is scheduled for the end of this month of March, Lotus has made sure that its prototypes are not seen as little as possible, and we have hardly had the opportunity to see a couple of prototypes completely covered with a tarpaulin preventing a detail from being seen.
The Lotus Type 132 will debut at the end of March
But what he has not been able to avoid is the leakage of the definitive design from the patent registryfrom all angles, sides and even the bottom, which is completely fairing from end to end to improve aerodynamics to the maximum. It is evident that it is a model of great proportions, and with a design as distinctive as it is avant-garde that is quite far from the first advance that the firm offered, and that you can see under these lines.
To a revolutionary and unprecedented design in the brand, with fine Full LED headlights on a razor sharp front to maximize efficiency, an important change suffered by the project that, initially, was planned as a traditional combustion model with an electric variant. Despite this condition, it is more than clear that Lotus intends to turn its first electric SUV into one of the first in its category, with true supercar features.
It will be, because less than 600 hp is not expected fruit of two powerful electric motors, and a generous range on a single charge generated from a powerful battery placed between the axles. The leaked patents also show a very special detail of this future Lotus SUV, and they are your lidar sensors. A sophisticated technology for autonomous driving that shoots pulses of laser light for the real detection of objects and people, placed in a retractable box on the interior rearview mirror.
Source: Auto Motor und Sport