The Eletre’s base powertrain is a dual-motor all-wheel drive setup making 602 horsepower. Lotus says that’s enough to rocket the Eletre to 62 mph in just 4.5 seconds, but the top-spec R boasts a whopping 906 horsepower and an estimated zero-to-62-mph time of only 2.9 seconds. Lotus hasn’t revealed anything yet about the Eletre’s suspension or handling, but we expect the sports car maker will imbue its first SUV with crisp handling and a fun-to-drive nature.
Lotus says that the Eletre’s battery pack will offer 112.0-kWh of capacity and claims that base and S models will offer a driving range of 373 miles on the European WLTP cycle. This means its U.S.-specific EPA rating will likely be lower than that and come in at around 315 miles per charge. The high-performance Eletre R’s range isn’t as impressive and Lotus estimates only about 302 miles per charge on the European WLTP, which would equate to about 250 miles by the EPA’s guidelines. Once we get an Eletre to test, we’ll run it through our real-world 75-mph highway fuel economy-and-driving range test to see what it can do.
