The Lotus Evija takes over the Hethel circuit

The first Lotus Evija test prototype makes its track debut

There is silence, the blinds of the box where the most important Lotus car of the century is kept are opened and a vehicle completely covered in a livery that cannot hide the fact that it is the Lotus Evija.

The silence remains despite the fact that the brand new electric hypercar faces the first few metres of the British firm's test and development track in Hethel, the town where Lotus' facilities are located.

The Lotus Evija completes lap after lap after lap of the 2,2 miles (3,450 kilometers) under FIA standards. curved techniques, hairpin bends that change the direction of the track and challenging straights where the brand's sports cars are tested and adjusted and, also, where Lotus fans can enjoy the track days held or in the activities of the Lotus Academy Driving.

In any case, the second of the Lotus Evijas built has already made the asphalt of the local track its own and has shown that, with its 2.000 hp of power, there is no car manufactured by Lotus most powerful and faster than him.

And doing everything in its power, the British firm has put on the table of the hypercars of tomorrow a car that aims to be the benchmark among the most powerful electric cars and exciting at the moment and in the coming years, as, as it has not yet entered production, the first units will not be available until 2021, as the car will enter production in 2020.

It is during these pre-manufacturing tests that the engineering theory is transformed into dynamics on the track and what should be done on paper on the asphalt can be evaluated.

From the circuit to the factory and back to the track

Tests that will not only make the "home" track a co-star of the activity of the new prototypes of the Lotus Evija but will instead be driven on other circuits around the world and on ordinary roads where the cars will be fine-tuned towards the final version that will go into production.

More so in a car so transcendental for Lotus, the one in charge of demonstrating that the transition towards the era of the automotive industry is also feasible for a brand linked not only to competition but to production cars whose maxim has been to extract the maximum benefit from some chassis and bodies sculpted with the utmost care associated with engines that, almost always, with few exceptions, have been manufactured by external manufacturers.

Something that will not happen in this new car either, since it will have an electrical system developed jointly thanks to the agreement with another specialist in creating automotive jewelry parts and Williams competition in its department as Williams Advanced Engineering.