Lotus Eletre: 3 advantages and 3 disadvantages

De Lotus Eletre is the king closed the charge. When we tested it, the charging power on the charging station’s display shot up to over 300 kW. That comes in handy, because A type of Lotus Eletre it’s smaller than you’d expect from a car with such a large battery (109 kWh). The battery has never been drained so quickly and charged so quickly.

But an electric car is more than the sum of range and charging speed. As a the architect of the electric Renault 5 so he aptly said: “You don’t really remember the old car in general, but some common features or appearance.” That’s why we highlight three positive and three negative aspects of Eletre below.

3 Benefits of Lotus Eletre

1. The interior is a barefoot path for your hands, with various materials, stitching and tactile bumps.

2. When you adjust the temperature with the physical switch, the ventilation grille lights up blue or red. Good information.

3. The back seat is so big that a driver about two meters tall can sit behind himself.

3 Disadvantages of Lotus Eletre

1. The cameras work well enough, but certainly not better than real exterior mirrors. So don’t look at the list of options.

2. Many Eletre buyers are unsure between grey, black or grey. Light up the Dutch street scene and choose the yellow one!

3. Lotus offers the Eletre four (!) high-tech LiDAR systems for autonomous driving, but uses parking cameras from the same year.

Bonus: Where do you put the charging cable?

Under the loading floor of the large trunk is a storage compartment where the charging cable fits. But Eletre also has frunk and we are trying to teach ourselves to use it. Otherwise you risk that the charging cable is hidden under all kinds of shopping bags and crates and is difficult to reach. And opening the frunk is not a punishment, because the cap and the frunk lid remain open on their own. Just look at the picture at the top of this post.