2025 Lotus Eletre First Drive: Is This Electric SUV Lotus Enough For Ya?

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Flush with cash from China’s Geely, the new Wuhan-built Eletre high-performance electric SUV cements Lotus’ bid for relevance and financial success.

. It's Lotus' first SUV, first EV , first vehicle with all-wheel drive, first software-defined vehicle, first autonomous-ready vehicle, first vehicle to feature an air suspension, first vehicle to feature electric power steering , first with available four-wheel steering, and first vehicle to be built in China.

Yet Lotus is the first to say the Eletre isn't for the people most likely to get hung up by brand heritage. With goals of selling more than 100,000 worldwide as its new Wuhan factory comes online—10 times more vehicles than it sold last year—Lotus needs fresh butts in its seats. , is just an over-the-air update away once regulators approve vehicles to operate on Levels 3 and 4 on the autonomy scale. In the meantime, Lotus says the Eletre will launch with a rudimentary Level 2 system, dubbed Highway Assist.Like Mustang fans before them when Ford launched the Mustang Mach-E electric SUV, for a subset of Lotus fans, final judgment of the Eletre's character will come on the road.

. At this stage, most won't notice the acceleration difference between the two, though a software update could change that.ride and handling has always been the primary focus for the brand

 

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