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LOTUS ELETRE S
Massive electric SUV that introduced us to ‘new Lotus’ is at last driven on British roads
The Eletre EV, the new face of Lotus, has arrived in the UK. It’s a hyper-SUV (their words) that was largely engineered in Germany, is built in China, and is the product of a company that has engineering, support and design bases in London, Warwickshire and, of course, Hethel, Norfolk – still home to Lotus sports cars and from where I collected this test car.
This version is the S, the midpoint in the range, which has more equipment but the same 603bhp as the base model, from two same-sized electric motors, one at each end, giving it four-wheel drive.