Lotus has introduced the Eletre X, a hybrid efficiency SUV for Europe combining 952 PS from twin PMSM motors with over 1,200 km mixed vary. Constructed on 900V structure with nine-minute 20-80% quick charging and 350 km electric-only vary, it launches in Europe in June 2026 with This autumn deliveries.
Lotus has introduced the Eletre X, a hybrid efficiency SUV that may carry the corporate’s X Hybrid powertrain platform to European prospects for the primary time, providing a mixed system output of 952 PS and a complete driving vary exceeding 1,200 km (WLTP).
The Shanghai-based electrical car division of Lotus revealed the mannequin on March 6, confirming a European market introduction in June 2026 with deliveries anticipated in This autumn 2026. UK buyer deliveries are anticipated to comply with shortly afterward.
The X Hybrid platform pairs a 70 kWh battery with a 52-liter gasoline tank and operates throughout three modes: pure battery electrical car (BEV), collection hybrid, and parallel hybrid. In full-electric mode, the system delivers as much as 350 km of vary, whereas the mixed electric-and-fuel vary tops 1,200 km below WLTP testing circumstances.
On the coronary heart of the drivetrain are entrance and rear everlasting magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) producing a mixed 700 kW (952 PS) and 935 Nm of torque, enabling a 0-100 km/h time of three.3 seconds. Lotus says the system can nonetheless ship roughly 550 kW even at round 20% state of cost (SOC), sustaining efficiency in demanding driving eventualities.
A 150 kW generator — which Lotus describes as essentially the most highly effective hybrid generator within the trade — can produce as much as roughly 25 kWh per hour, replenishing the battery on the transfer and supporting sustained cruising or sudden energy calls for.
The platform is constructed on 900V high-voltage structure with 6C-rate battery cells, enabling DC quick charging from 20% to 80% in roughly 9 minutes, topic to charger functionality and circumstances.
“With For Me, we’re proving that superior know-how should serve the drivers, not exchange them — delivering fixed efficiency, whole management, and actual security in each situation, so that buyers can benefit from the emotion of driving and the boldness of defending what issues most,” says Qingfeng Feng, chief government officer of Lotus Tech.
Chassis know-how demonstrated on the platform features a 48V energetic anti-roll bar delivering as much as 1,400 Nm with a goal response time of roughly 10 ms and a roll angle goal beneath 1.5°/g. An energetic rear spoiler operates throughout 4 positions, producing as much as 120 kg of downforce. Braking is dealt with by Brembo six-piston entrance calipers, with a claimed 100-0 km/h stopping distance of 33.9 m. Twin-chamber air suspension with dual-valve dampers and a entrance double-wishbone structure rounds out the dynamic package deal.
The powertrain system operates throughout six outlined eventualities — BEV all-wheel drive (AWD), parallel AWD, idle charging, collection discharging, collection energy technology, and parallel energy technology — routinely choosing the optimum mode based mostly on velocity, SOC, and driver inputs.
Lotus notes that each one technical specs printed to date relate to the China-market FOR ME mannequin, which serves because the reference prototype for the X Hybrid know-how. Full European specs for the Eletre X, together with confirmed energy outputs, WLTP vary figures, and chassis configuration, will probably be printed nearer to the European launch date.
