Lotus is gearing up for final prototype
production at its new Hethel manufacturing facility in Norfolk, UK, with series
production and first customer deliveries of the all-electric Evija hypercar are
scheduled for this summer. Lotus will hand-built up to 130 examples of the
Evija, as the first year’s production allocation has already been designated to
customers around the globe.
Work on the new factory began last summer,
with the interior fitted on three sides with gantries to frame the build
stations. They were designed and engineered to be sleek and unobtrusive, yet
robust enough to pack the necessary power, data and compressed air systems
required to assemble a hypercar.
Other facility features include more than
30,000 high-density, low-energy LEDs, and a state-of-the-art light tunnel. The
project itself needed co-ordination from 20 specialist contractors, with more
than 50 experts on side during the past six months.
As for the car itself, it is the world’s
first all-electric British hypercar, boasting 2,000 PS. According to
Lotus, the Evija can hit 100 km/h in under three seconds and 300 km/h in under nine seconds, while offering a full EV driving range of 400 km.
