Lotus E-R9 EV endurance racer previews future engineering tech

Lotus is a motorsport innovator, and with this E-R9 EV endurance racer notion it is supplying us a preview to the sort of tech we could see lining up on race grids by 2030.

Created by Lotus Engineering, it is a technology showcase of the company’s “philosophy, capability and innovative spirit in the fields of state-of-the-art electrified powertrains and aerodynamics.”

As a end result, the Lotus E-R9 functions 4 electric powered motors – a single per wheel – with torque vectoring to increase the car’s dynamic capability, making on technology already integrated on the brand’s Evija hypercar. Lotus says that for the E-R9, the tech would be thoroughly adjustable on the move.

A further considerable innovation for the motor vehicle is its aerodynamics. The E-R9 uses ‘morphing’ body panels that are found throughout the car’s delta wing profile. These surfaces are active and can improve their condition at the contact of a driver-activated button to change the degree of downforce and drag on give.

The tech could give a environment for very low downforce and very low drag to maximise straight-line speed, and a high-downforce mode to increase cornering probable, with the panels set to possibly a single of two modes: driver-operated, or computerized, according to performance sensor inputs.

The active aero extends to vertical control surfaces at the rear that aid the motor vehicle improve path that bypass the limit of grip from the car’s tyres, which Lotus promises effects in a motor vehicle that’s “partly driven like a motor vehicle and partly flown by a fighter jet.”

Lotus has an illustrious history in motorsport, and the car’s title stems from this. E-R stands for ‘Endurance Racer’ whilst the 9 is a reference to the Lotus Mark IX that marked the firm’s debut at the Le Mans 24 hours in 1955.

The aim of the E-R9 venture is to showcase what an endurance racer could glimpse like at the stop of the ten years if the motor vehicle had been to line up on the grid in 2030 it would mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the Mark IX.

It is also finished in black and gold, a nod to the colour plan of famed Lotus racers from the earlier, whilst the jetfighter-fashion cover is mounted centrally in the delta wing body.

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