Lotus City Car Concept

Lotus was unveiled at the Paris Motor Show 2010, the Lotus City Car Concept, a compact car, city car prototype that has now finally been chosen to be produced and which will also star of a series of tests on the road for the final development. The announcement was just the setssa company through its managing director. According to the representative of the British car manufacturer, the marketing will be done by 2013 and Lotus City Car Concept will be implemented three different versions: one for the most important markets in Asia, Europe and the last of another riot like sporty.

Lotus, having realized that you can also obtain important results along this road, so try to conquer a new catchment area and the reason is that a small body and a hybrid architecture and lowers the overall average power consumption of range and the emission of carbon dioxide. The new car will be compact with a 1.2 liter gasoline engine tricilindrico, with 47 horses that is used as a generator of electric energy for the lithium-ion battery and electric motor of 73 horsepower.

In this way the autonomy rises to five hundred kilometers on a single charge and the combined function of the generator. It is not known if the production version of Lotus City Car Concept is destined to receive the same mechanical properties, but it seems more likely that the hybrid version is used with a traditional combustion heat. Another important step towards the environment by a carmaker that is rightly acclaim.