Lotus is steadily building anticipation for the market launch of the pure-electric Evija. The hypercar will make a dynamic appearance at this year’s Goodwood SpeedWeek, where it’ll tear around the festival’s circuit alongside a roster of classic Lotus formula One racers.
For the event, Lotus has wrapped an Evija prototype in a stylised version of the black and gold livery worn by Mario Andretti’s Lotus 79 from the 1978 formula One season. That F1 title-winning racer will also appear at the event, gone along with by other team Lotus icons like Graham Hill’s Lotus 49, Emerson Fittipaldi’s Lotus 72-7 and Sir Stirling Moss’s Lotus 18.
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Lotus’s rival for the Rimac C_Two will enter production later this year in a limited run of just 130 units, each priced £1.7 million. The Goodwood demonstration is the most recent in a series of tidbits revealed about the hypercar’s performance capability because the project was announced. Previous to this demo run, the Norfolk-based supercar brand detailing the Evija’s five driving modes.
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Each setting incrementally increases the level of performance supplied by the Evija’s pure-electric powertrain. The least aggressive mode is called “Range”, and it limits the car’s performance to ‘just’ 986bhp and 800Nm of torque, to maximise the distance the supercar can cover between charges.