“Bringing collectively our wealthy heritage with clever efficiency and the most recent cutting-edge applied sciences, we’re pushing the boundaries for a way a luxurious electrical car ought to look and deal with– making it really for the drivers,” stated Feng Qingfeng, CEO, Lotus Group.

Emeya is setting a brand new benchmark for a way a Lotus drives and feels by combining the corporate’s 75-year experience in engineering and design, with the most recent superior improvements – bringing drivers an electrical automobile that’s thrilling to drive and performs exceptionally.

This consists of superior and lively aerodynamic options such because the pioneering lively entrance grille, rear diffuser, and rear spoiler. All this, mixed with a low middle of gravity that Lotus calls ‘hyperstance’, enhances stability when driving, and units a brand new commonplace within the GT section for experience and dealing with excellence.

Emeya has an electronically managed air suspension system. Its superior onboard sensors really feel the street 1,000 occasions a second and routinely modify the car to make sure the smoothest experience. The highest specification mannequin for Emeya options Lotus’ high-power twin motor set-up that delivers a high velocity of greater than 155mph (250km/h) and may speed up from 0-62mph (0-100km/h) in underneath 2.8 seconds, making it one of many quickest electrical GTs on the planet.

To supply prospects with confidence wherever they’re touring, the efficiency of Emeya is complemented by Lotus’ market-leading charging capabilities. It will probably add 93 miles (150km) of vary with roughly 5 minutes of cost utilizing a 350kW DC quick charger, in addition to enhance vary as much as 80% inside 18 minutes.

Emeya has been consciously designed with superior sustainable supplies which can be additionally sustainably sourced, to scale back its carbon footprint. This features a new luxurious thread constituted of repurposed fibers from the style trade – in addition to PVD aluminum, Alcantara, Nappa leather-based, and Ultrafabrics PU.

Making certain that each occupant can get pleasure from an unmatched music expertise, the Emeya will supply a really immersive audio system developed with KEF. Emeya’s speaker system will elevate music listening to new ranges. It options KEF’s award-winning Uni-Q^® speaker design and Uni-Core™ space-saving subwoofer enclosure, in addition to Dolby Atmos-enabled 3D encompass sound – first seen in a Lotus on the Eletre Hyper-SUV.

“It is a Lotus like you could have by no means seen earlier than. We’ve constructed on the whole lot Lotus has achieved to date to create a luxurious efficiency automobile for the drivers, designed to encourage confidence, exhilarate with uncooked emotion and pure pleasure – connecting them to the street,” stated Ben Payne, Vice-President of Design, Lotus Group.

Emeya brings collectively emotion and logic, energy, and precision, and connects the energy of Lotus sports activities automobile DNA with four-door luxurious and luxury. The title Emeya was chosen to embody the ambition and dedication that Lotus has for this new car.

Emeya joins as a flagship mannequin in Lotus’ line-up of luxurious life-style electrical autos, a part of the corporate’s imaginative and prescient to turn out to be a world efficiency model by 2028. Manufacturing is predicted to start in 2024. The worldwide premiere of the automobile occurred within the coronary heart of New York Metropolis, USA, as a part of a three-day immersive model expertise showcasing the previous, current and way forward for Lotus at Studio Emeya.

The activation took over 4 storeys of a parking zone in Manhattan, inviting attendees on Lotus’ journey and showcasing its wealthy heritage and expertise. The occasion gave friends an unique take a look at how Emeya was created, and the emotion evoked by driving, earlier than it culminated with an immersive reveal of the automobile and a rooftop social gathering that noticed DJ and radio presenter Benji B entertain crowds as they received up shut and private with Emeya.