Designed by Julian Thompson, engineered by Callum Design - and capable of recharging in just six minutes...
Ever wondered what Julian Thomson’s Lotus Elise would look like if it came out today? Well, wonder no more. The car you see here is basically it. It looks very much like a Series I Elise, but only after someone’s connected a live cable at the rear and a negative cable at the front, then shoved several thousand volts through it to give it some more attitude. That sounds a bit like Frankenstein’s monster, but this is not the work of Dr. Frankenstein.
This, then, is a huge win for EVs. While most manufacturers are busy fitting bigger and heavier batteries to their cars to deal with range anxiety and, therefore, make lengthy charging stops less common but also lengthier, the other way of coming at the problem is simply to make the batteries charge quicker. That way you’re getting nearer to the petrol-powered scenario of a splash and dash. A six-minute stop is almost that.
Low weight brings us neatly back to its Elise-like wrapping. It’s the perfect fit for a reincarnated ‘Elise’ to be delivered with a low-weight battery. After all, the point of that car was, largely, its lack of weight, and Nyobolt says that its EV is ‘set to weigh close to one tonne’.
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