Lotus has revealed that the first examples of the all-electric Evija hypercar will be handed over to customers during next month’s Monterey Car Week in California.
It has been four long years since the Evija was first unveiled and while the car manufacturer released plenty of updates about its development throughout 2020 and part of 2021, very few info has been provided about the car since then. Lotus had hoped to begin deliveries in 2020 but the COVID-19 pandemic delayed those plans.
The car manufacturer’s director of Attributes and Product Integrity, Gavan Kershaw, told CarBuzz at the recent Goodwood Festival of Speed that the car is finally ready for prime time and that customer deliveries will commence in August. It is not yet clear when production of the hypercar started but Lotus did bring along a customer car to Goodwood, namely one of the limited-edition Evija Emerson Fittipaldi Edition models. It is believed to be heading to a customer in China.
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Lotus plans to build just 130 examples of the Evija for customers but interestingly, Kershaw revealed that the car has not yet sold out, meaning there’s still a chance for prospective owners to place an order. The same cannot be said about the Evija’s two main rivals, the Rimac Nevera and Pininfarina Battista, both of which are sold out.
The Evija is driven by four electric motors that combine to produce 1,973 hp and 1,254 lb-ft (1,700 Nm) of torque. These motors receive their juice from a 70 kWh battery pack and the British company claims it can hit 186 mph (300 km/h) in less than 9 seconds and exceed 200 mph (320 km/h) flat out.
After the car’s COVID-related delays, it was hoped that deliveries could start in 2021. However, they were delayed yet again after Lotus announced it had terminated its engineering contract with Williams Advanced Engineering which had originally been tasked with developing the high-voltage systems and battery for the hypercar.
