Type 130 - Lotus Evija

[NedaSay]

Is this the first delivered car?

[Giniw]

I would say it looks the same as the very first they showed so it's probably this one?

[stephenwhyte]

It’s the show car - the above was last year when it was touring the country. This is at Parks Lotus where I went to see it in person. Stunning when you’re standing next to it!😎

[ramjet]

You just can't not like it, can you?  

[PAR]

No update on delivery though?

 

[Giniw]

(thank goodness its colour change is probably a cover each time otherwise it would weight 5 tons already :D)

[Bibs]

https://www.thelotusforums.com/latest-news/lotus-cars-news/lotus-evija-out-on-test/

[Hangar 111]

I think Lotus need to employ a proof reader 😆

[TomE]

7 hours ago, Bibs said:

https://www.thelotusforums.com/latest-news/lotus-cars-news/lotus-evija-out-on-test/

Are they doing mapping work for Google Streetview with those roof pods, or testing the LIDAR for the Type 132?

[Bibs]

From the article mate...

It took to urban roads for vital validation of its wifi and GPS location systems,

I'd imagine those are control to measure the in car service against. 

[TomE]

Great picture.  Parked up next to all those empty containers we can't get shipped back to China?  Or are they the full ones with all the incoming Emira parts?  

[exeterjeep]

6 minutes ago, TomE said:

Or are they the full ones with all the incoming Emira parts?  

Not full of type 132s either...

[Barrykearley]

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/lotus-evija-76907

[Mysterae]

Awesome stuff, I even like the little Lotus guy:

I also hope this means more official Lotus Lego models, rather than the MOCs currently available:

[EuropaSman]

An affordable version of the Evija! I'll  buy two - one for me and one for my 4 year old daughter 🙂

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Blimey, I honestly wouldn’t have known that was meant to be an Evija if you hadn’t told me.

[MJON]

That’s cos it’s a pile of plastic bricks 😏😉

[PAR]

So I decided to make a kid’s dream true and splurged on one.

It is currently in build phase and I should be able to get a picture during build up phase. I will post it here.

[PAR]

Almost ready for delivery, my daughter finishing it off now….

[jonwat]

Technical Overview & In-Depth Look 

[KusaKusa]

Great article. The transmission and inverter design seem similar to what's in the LEVA white papers potentially for Type 135. I'd love to see a picture of the motors or EDUs themselves; has anyone seen any?

This is the first I've heard of the 800 kW charge rate, and that's bonkers if true and sustainable. 800V support for an entire car's electric charging components is the current target to hit, but that only equates to 350 kW of charging. Only Porsche and Hyundai (with help from investment into Rimac), Lucid (920V), and GM's very new Hummer have been able to hit that smaller target so far. Not even Rivian or Tesla can hit it yet. And the Evija uses a smaller sized battery than everyone else, which makes it harder to charge faster. I wonder how they handle the amount of heat from that. 

[ramjet]

I don't know if I have missed this bit of info or it has never been mentioned.

Are there going to be any RH drive Evijas? I have only seen pictures of LH drive vehicles. I think the Goodwood car was LH as well.

[USAndretti42]

On 20/04/2022 at 18:53, KusaKusa said:

Great article. The transmission and inverter design seem similar to what's in the LEVA white papers potentially for Type 135. I'd love to see a picture of the motors or EDUs themselves; has anyone seen any?

I was lucky enough to go on a tour of Integral Powertrain's new premises last Tuesday evening and, on display, is an Evija axle, i.e. 2 motors and inverters in a housing.  As it's a display I presumed it's just the empty housing or has damaged motors/inverters inside.

Anyway, considering it gives out 1000ps, it's not huge.  An internal-combustion engine of such an output would be much bigger and more difficult to package plus needing a multi-ratio transmission (the Evija has a single ratio transmission).  Pretty impressive.

[RobinB5]

On 20/04/2022 at 18:53, KusaKusa said:

I wonder how they handle the amount of heat from that. 

On the charging cable side either the cable will have to have some form of integrated 2-phase liquid cooling or just have to be very unwieldy by having very large diameter cables. So is 800V used to supply the 800kW? If so that's 1000A which is crazy. Inside the car surely the supply to the battery would have to be more akin to a busbar than a cable?

As @KusaKusasaid, has anyone got any pictures of the powertrain components?

[USAndretti42]

If I recall correctly, it's the motor on the left in this screenshot from IP's web site.