“At Lotus, we have always chosen the best power technology available, whether it’s pure gasoline, pure electric, hybrid or range-extended [EV],” Lotus CEO Feng Qingfeng reportedly told the Wall Street Journal, via Autocar.https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/lotus-embraces-erev-hybrids-it-axes-all-electric-plan
>>28118331>light weight sports car manufacturer finds out building BEVs wasnt a good ideawho would have thought.I hope these managers arent payed more than 100k a year because that is already to much.hey, give me the job.I will make this brand shine.
>>28118331>Lotus CEO Feng QingfengIt's dead to me either way.
>>28118331Electric adaptable shocks are an eighties thing that Lotus tried to sell to Volvo.An awful lot of the stuff you take for granted are lotus ideas.The best technology available may come from Hethel but it will have gone through the hands of a lot of (idiots) other people before you get to use it.
Lotus sold out to the chinks, should have been illegal but there it is. Extreme liberalism is cancer. Fuck the brits and swedes for selling their family silver to the chinks and indians for a quick payout
>>28118477Why did Feng Qingfeng bet so hard of EVs to begin with?
>>28118500Lotus, like a lot of UK names have been trading on foreign peoples cash. They've gone all Jaguar now.
>>28118477the "announcement" was about putting range extenders in their huge electric SUVs, which are their main product.
>>28118331>CEO Feng QingfengHuh i thought they were british
>>28118500so you think it would have been better if Lotus just disappeared?
if you say feng qing feng backwarsyou get feng qing feng
>>28118503selling those chinese batteries of course.a real manager would know what simply is off the limit.>>28118523oh god.so first one more round of failing before they find out what I just typed.the thing which hurts me the most is you can see it coming.you just have to look at what merc tried, so this is even more than just a guess.>>28118542schwing dei ding
>Emira M*rc I4 Turbo - >1400kg (as much as the heaviest V6 supercharged 2+2 Evora)>Evija (((E*ectric))) (((s*percar))) - 1680kg (the heaviest lotus, including the Carlton)Did I say heaviest???>Eletre (((E*ectric))) (((S*V/C*V))) - 2500kg, 5 metre long>Emeya (((E*ectric))) sedan - 2500kg, 5 metre longA lightweight sports car manufacturer turned into electric Ferrari/Lambo company, where they build supercars and gay CUVs.>>28118500GM bought Lotus (90s Elan, late Espirits), then an Italian guy bought it from them (Elise, based), then got bought by Proton (Exige, 11s, Evora, based too), and in late 10s Geely got majority ownership.Funny how many european manufacturers are owned by changs. It's over eubros.
>>28118331>Lotus CEO Feng Qingfeng
>>28118331>feng qingfengshould be bazza from down pub
>>28118500We learned that from America.
>>28118331I wonder if Alpine's going to do the same backtracking.
>>28118614>you just have to look at what merc tried, so this is even more than just a guess.fittingly, mercedes just announced their next EV will also be made with ICE engines because it turns out not everyone wants EVs.
>>28120634the french government keeps putting exponentially higher taxes against any ICE that isn't a super basic grocery getter, so probably not unless there's a major course change.
