The company will instead stimulate the PHEVS Hyper Hybrid with Lotus SPORTS also in the electrical line. The first Lotus hybrid component will be Eletre and will be sold in the first quarter of next year, starting with China.
Heithyl had to build a planned sports car when Emera production ended, but the lack of enthusiasm in the market forced Lotus to postpone the car indefinitely. “Is the market ready for an electric sports car? I don’t really know the answer to that yet,” said Lotus Europe CEO Windle for Autocar in May.
Windle was pushing Geely to build more models in the Hethel Factory, which collected about 5000 emiras last year but had a theory capacity of 10,000. One of the possible models was the POLESTAR 6 Electric Roadster. “I think we can build it,” Windl said. “There is a transitional element because at the present time it is just an ice, but we will have to go on that trip.”
Jelly may have ruled that Heithyl is not worth investing in an additional way, given that the legislation will force the end of the combustion engine cars, with the emergence of the United States, the least convenient climate as the last major burning engine market on the planet.
Lotus Feng CEO has previously said that the company evaluates the V8 option for Emira.
Lotus reset came after the company increased its growth. Before it was included in New York in 2024, the company expected that it would build 150,000 cars by 2028, most of which are from a new factory in Wuhan, China. It will provide a medium -sized SUV targeting the Porsche Macan and type 134 encrypted type of sales when it was launched in 2027. However, type 134 was placed in EV’s slowdown, and Lotus struggled to build the momentum that he needs to pay for the investment. The delivery operations last year reached 12134.
Hethel closing will be a huge blow to the government, which earlier this week put its industrial strategy to help develop vehicle production to 1.3 million by 2035, an increase of 905233 last year.
Lotus production is small compared to big players like JLR, but the brand has survived her home in Norfolk since 1966, when the founder of Lotus Colin Chapman bought the former airport from the government. Geely has invested 100 million pounds on the site, including a new sports car manufacturing facility that opened in 2022 to build Emira.
One of the senior executives Lotus described the closure plans.