![]() In a second bombshell, Bahar admitted that production abroad was highly likely. ![]() With Lotus planning to treble production, it seems certain that Hethel will not be able to cope with all manufacturing. I think for us this could be the first exercise in bringing pure hybrid and pure electric vehicles to market, whilst remaining true to the sportiness that the Lotus brand offers to our clients.’ Lotuses ‘could be built abroad’ ‘From our side, the introduction of a Lotus City Car is something very appealing, because there is a market for so-called sporty city cars, especially with the advancement of hybrid technology and electric vehicles. In it they reveal that the Lotus City Car has been co-developed by the two companies. ![]() Lotus boss: ‘There is a market for so-called sporty city cars, especially with the advancement of hybrid technology and electric vehicles’Īutomotive World today published an interview with group managing director of Proton Holdings Berhad, Dato’ Haji Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir, and the chief executive of Group Lotus, Dany Bahar. With a range-extending hybrid, the Lotus City Car can drive 25 miles on electric only charge before the battery runs flat, a small 1.2-litre three-cylinder petrol engine starts up to charge it up – making the maximum range on one fill-up 310 miles. Although Lotus has a powertrain deal with Toyota, the hybrid project is in fact Lotus’s own proprietary technology. It is based on a new platform co-developed with Proton and the show car uses Lotus’s hybrid powertrain: it shares the series hybrid system that underpins the Jaguar XJ Limo Green project. The Lotus City Car is an crisply designed supermini with a fresh profile and rear-wheel drive.
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