This Cool Electric Lotus Evora Project Is How Sports Cars Could Look In 10 Years

Canadian engineer, tuner and occasional racer Sasha Anis is building an electric Lotus Evora with key parts from a Tesla and a pair of Chevrolet Volts, and the results will be a glimpse into the future

Matt Kimberley

24 Jan 2017

You’re no doubt wondering what the sports cars of the future are going to look like. So are we. Here’s an interesting bit of potential crystal ball-gazing from Speed Academy, whose latest video series is following one guy’s quest to build an electric Lotus Evora.

Casual racing driver Sasha Anis, from OnPoint Dyno, who you might have seen chasing lap times in a heavily modified race-spec Nissan 350Z, is looking at combining batteries from a Chevrolet Volt with the P85 motor from a Tesla, all within the chassis of the Lotus sports GT.

This Cool Electric Lotus Evora Project Is How Sports Cars Could Look In 10 Years

It’s going to be a fully legal street car, with working heating and air conditioning, a 12in digital display and fully working electrical controls. It’s slightly reminiscent of Tesla’s own Roadster, which used a Lotus Elise as its base.

He’s predicting around 350bhp from the motors, which he bought from eBay in the wake of a Tesla wreck. As for range, it won’t be much better than 125 miles, but in the video Sasha says that Volt batteries, when hooked up together, can deliver better performance than a Tesla pack. It makes for an interesting 14 minutes and we’ll be keeping an eye on the project’s progress.

Comments

Tries to make a clever electricity joke I’ve got nothing…

Interesting.

Before someone says it, we all know its electrifying

Oh, i cant wait for the comments of
“GASOLINE IS BEST”
Really? Is it? Sure, sure, we have many cool gasoline cars, heck, nearly all of them are, but why cant we like eletric cars? They all basically corner flat due to batteries, have great 0-60 times (well, some do some dont) and generally are some of the safest cars you can buy! Sure, it doesnt make the pop pop stu stu noise we love but with some simple programing and a good speaker, those pop pop and stu stus can be pumped into the cabin and outside the car… Heck, you could have an electric car make any sound you wanted!