2014 Lotus City Car Concept

The City Car Concept Lotus went almost unnoticed at the Paris show, sandwiched concept to see Elise, Elite, Elan, Esprit and eternal, from which, however, takes an obvious family resemblance. Yet even the project of the City Car is launching a very interesting challenge, and unpublished, for the future of the English house. The 3-door 4-seater promises interesting performances for electricity, thanks to 220 hp and 240 Nm (peak) electric motor mounted in the rear, compared with a weight of just under 1400 kg.

The lithium battery life is 60 km, but the car is an electric EREV and is equipped with 1.2 3-cylinder 34 kW developed by Lotus as the Range Extender, which can also use ethanol to bring the total to 500 km range . Acceleration 0-50 km / h in 4.5 seconds, while the 100 km / h are reached after 9 seconds and top speed is 170 km / h, while total emissions are equal to about 60 g / km . The car could go into production in 2014, but Lotus is still looking for a partner in production, while Proton, the current owners of the British brand, presented in Geneva a concept designed by Giugiaro, which uses a mechanical base is very similar.