Lotus‘s all-electric Evija hypercar has broken a series of records in testing carried out by Autocar.
During the road test, the electric hypercar outpaced competitors in key acceleration metrics, recording the quickest time for a 0-200mph sprint and covering a standing quarter-mile and kilometer faster than any car previously.
From 100-150mph, the Evija is nearly three seconds faster than any hypercar previously tested by Autocar, and from 150-200mph, it extended that advantage to five seconds. The Evija accelerates from 150-180mph in 2.7 seconds.
The Evija has become the third road-legal production car that Autocar has timed from a standstill to 200mph during road test benchmarking. It reached the milestone within a standing kilometer, leaving room for braking within a standing mile, and hit its 217.4mph limiter inside a distance in which most of the fastest cars would hit 180mph.
Matt Saunders, Autocar road test editor, said, “Hypercar makers some time back shifted their focus away from top speed as a distinguishing feature. Some have opted for outright circuit pace, but Lotus chose something powerful electric motors could be truly exceptional at: the 0-200mph, standing-kilometer drag-strip blast.
“In 2011, the Bugatti Veyron cut the standard for that – as verified by this magazine in 1994 with the McLaren F1 – by 21%. In 2025, proportionally speaking, the Evija’s leap is twice that size.”
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