Lotus Emeya Breaks Electric Car Record With Fastest Charging

Lotus Emeya. (Doc. Lotus)

JAKARTA - Lotus Emeya has been named the fastest production electric car with battery charging. The claim comes after the car was recorded to charge from 10 to 80 percent in just 14 minutes.

From the beginning of Emeya's release, Lotus did promote the speed of charging time of the battery, where Emeya used 800V battery technology with Advanced Lotus Hyper Charging.

Autocar reported, quoted June 11, in a test using a DC 400 kW connection, this luxury sedan reached a 402 kW peak charging speed with an average of 331 kW. This figure outperforms the record peak charging speed of 320 kW which Porsche claims for Taycan facelift.

It is known, Emeya is Lotus' second electric car, after Eletre. Both include a family of new lifestyle-oriented models produced in Wuhan, China which also focus on the same extraordinary performance.

Emeya was fastest equipped with a double driving machine that generates up to 905 hp of power and 985 Nm of torque to the four wheels. This power is enough to accelerate from 0-96 km/hour in less than 2.8 seconds, making Emeya one of the fastest sedans on the market.

Meanwhile, specifications for the Emeya entry-level and Emeya S have not been announced, but are expected to be equivalent to the Lotus Eletre model. All variants are equipped with 102kWh batteries which officially generate up to 610 km of range.

Emeya will enter production later this year, with its first shipment to Europe scheduled to start this fall.

For the price of this luxury sedan in the UK, starting from 107,450 pounds (equivalent to Rp2.23 billion) for medium variant S cars and reaching 129,950 pounds (equivalent to Rp2.69 billion for the most powerful R model.