Five years after its presentation, Lotus has now begun the delivery of the 100% electric supercar, Evija. Initially scheduled to reach customers in 2020, the Lotus Evija faced delays due to the Covid-19 pandemic, which caused setbacks in the model’s development; however, the first deliveries have already taken place, as revealed by Lotus’s European head, Dan Balmer, in an interview with “Autocar.”
Production takes place at the Lotus factory in Hethel, UK, where the British brand plans to build the 130 units of the Evija. According to the same Lotus representative, production should be completed in the next two years, “in order to meet all existing orders”, although it has not been confirmed whether this means producing more units than initially planned.
It is already known that eight units of the 100% electric Evija are special Fittipaldi editions, designed to celebrate the achievements of former Formula 1 driver Emerson Fittipaldi while driving the Lotus F1 Type 72 car in the early 1970s.
The Lotus Evija is equipped with four electric motors that deliver a combined power of 2000 hp, allowing the supercar to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in less than three seconds and reach 320 km/h in under nine seconds. It also has the capability to achieve an electronically limited top speed of 350 km/h and a road range of 400 km.
It is worth noting that the Evija was the first fully electric model launched by the British brand since the Chinese company Geely took a majority stake in Lotus in 2017.
