Work on the future electric sports car codenamed Type 135 was already underway when the Elise was phased out. Lotus then ...

The Cars side builds the famed British sports cars like the late Esprit and the current Elise ... division of Lotus, has created a new research and development group solely for electric and ...

The original Tesla Roadster was over 1,200kg, compared to the 700-800kg of the Elise it was based on. The Theory 1 showcases the direction Lotus intends to take in the electric era. Lotus has ...

The Lotus Elise has given birth to some seriously fast and varied machinery. Aside from Lotus' own models like the Exige, 2-Eleven, 340R and Europa, electric vehicles like the Tesla Roadster ...

The supercharger conversion in the Elise is in fact not the same one found in the Exige but Lotus’s own conversion on the Toyota 2ZZ engine using a Magnusson M45 Roots-type supercharger.

In 2008, Lotus teased sports car lovers by debuting the Elise SC, a supercharged Elise that could make 218 horsepower (versus the standard 189 horsepower regular model). The car featured a brand new ...