Sorry Sam - small error in the beginning of the video: Lotus is owned by the Geely group. Not by SAIC.
@user-cw9em3mo3wАй бұрын
That's I thought, I'm sure it still is part of the Geely group.
@jasonyap7634Ай бұрын
Also, it was owned by Proton ( Malaysia ) for many years ( decades? ) prior to this. Geely bought over majority shares ( 51% ) of Proton and that how the ownership came to pass. Anyway, that was my understanding.
@michaelkiddle3149Ай бұрын
I worked for Lotus when it was owned by GM
@skierpageАй бұрын
This video is littered with errors. Evija X isn't a production car, it's not street legal, it isn't the fastest EV let alone production car.
@PS3TEKKENLORD26 күн бұрын
Its not too much power its too much power for that particular driver who should have slept in that day period!!!!
@austinpowers1999Ай бұрын
POWER WITHOUT CONTROL IS NOTHING
@mikedx2706Ай бұрын
So sayeth Pirelli
@rowanbroekman3929Ай бұрын
"Power is nothing without control"
@rk8829515 күн бұрын
Its drivers error,
@garrycroft4215Ай бұрын
Sam Lotus is owned by Geely not SIAC
@shepherdsknollАй бұрын
Anyone who has driven a very fast car knows that a car can be too fast for the average person and maybe even a professional.
@clickbait4820Ай бұрын
True. Insanity such a car be drive on the road, in public, with a normal drivers license (and a fat wallet). They (Ferraris, Porches, ... etc.), crash all over the place, endangering both the driver and anyone else. At some point lawmakers should look into capping both power and torque, mandatory traction control, tiered licenses like for motorbikes or even location aware vehicles that simply cant go faster than the peed limit.
@zes7215Ай бұрын
wrr
@FriedChairsАй бұрын
It would need tremendous downforce and traction control to make full use of 2000 hp.
@magnetospinАй бұрын
It's not too fast though, it crashed at like 3 mph.
@tedmossАй бұрын
@@clickbait4820 You won't get very far with that approach, my father raced and crashed many cars, mostly crashed them on icy roads, and he drove small (little tiny) sports cars. He was 6 foot 4 inches tall and had to squeeze into them. He also won many prizes. I have two Teslas, a model Y and a cyber truck, they have 445 and 600 hp respectively and are by far the safest cars on the road. My wife and I know how to drive after 65 years practice.
@johnnychromaticАй бұрын
Countersteering probably won't help when all four tires are smoking.
@j7...17 күн бұрын
Exactly the moment where you gain back faith in God xD
@wtfskilz12 күн бұрын
Yes the smoke is evidence of hyper traction loss. His ego kept him from using proper throttle control.
@hardi.howdy.983Ай бұрын
Not smashed up, a bit of carbon fiber was broken, but the car was generally fine! Fact as per reports.
@1183newmanАй бұрын
The car raced the very next day, it wasnt in such a bad way although the times while fast for a production car, were still slower than expected so either some long term damage was caused or the driver was being extra careful sicne accident.
@Alex-ig2xrАй бұрын
Lotus is owned by Geely.
@heretikpapyАй бұрын
ahhhhhh that's why !! another "good looking" fake crap...
@mikedx2706Ай бұрын
I thought that Lotus looked sort of Asian.
@kamsunleong6648Ай бұрын
@@heretikpapy Lotus Emira. A real beauty.
@malcolmrickarby2313Ай бұрын
China bought Lotus from Malaysia.😊
@larryc1616Ай бұрын
Lotus is now located and built in Wuhan, China
@jeffreyrhАй бұрын
Trying to win the race in the first 50 feet will usually end in disaster. And here it did.
@davidstuart4915Ай бұрын
putting on a show for the crowd
@Bercilakdehautdesert-yt1gdАй бұрын
Not a race, exhibition run at Goodwood. pointless racing something like that, what class would it run in? This is a mere gadget to break track records, nothing to do with racing, just an interesting exercise.
@dmuller760116 күн бұрын
Drag racer: hold muh beer
@scottgardenerАй бұрын
Holy crap; I drive a Plaid S, and the thought of something with twice that much power actually existing-we are reaching points of absurdity, in which human brains can’t handle what hypercar scan do.
@johnmason5626Ай бұрын
Bit concerned that you did not know that Lotus is owned by Geely.
@travellover3373Ай бұрын
Is Geely an american company?
@ttkddryАй бұрын
@@travellover3373Geely is Chinese, they own Volvo and Polestar, Zeekr and more brands. They started out making fridges then bought other companies for their brand names
@keeptalking100Ай бұрын
@@travellover3373 Geely is Chinese. They own Volvo and many other brands
@nsng1298Ай бұрын
@@travellover3373Geely owns 51% of Lotus. The remaining 49% is owned by a Malaysian company.
@travellover3373Ай бұрын
@@keeptalking100 Right, did EV say Lotus is owned by american or chinese?
@dogefromthefuture28 күн бұрын
Best Porsche commercial ever 👍
@chiss4181Ай бұрын
Apparently the crash was caused by some sort of Software issue on one of the 4 motors
@user-yh6xf3wl1hАй бұрын
Hardware issue. Too hard on the accelerator pedal!
@bobsmith3983Ай бұрын
Obviously traction control was turned off.
@adrianlovic648621 күн бұрын
Yeah it let out full power.
@cardboardboxification19 күн бұрын
it was a software meat puppet glitch thinking it was on a drag strip
@vascamp485418 күн бұрын
This comment is the actual truth. 4 independent motors - 1 motor was given too much input. It had nothing to do with the driver.
@dannydavis8889Ай бұрын
Tesla's don't fly out of control because Tesla software keeps control. Tires are not allowed to spin unaccountably.
@jxmai7687Ай бұрын
look like they have the option to turn off some of the control.
@ElMistroFerozАй бұрын
@@jxmai7687So in the end it was driver error if that was the case.
@jackdiao4576Ай бұрын
Every car does that. Lotus EVs launches just fine, if you keep the ESC on.
@PhatSimeyАй бұрын
Teslas
@chris27gea58Ай бұрын
There is more to it than that. This is not finally/simply about bad software. If traction control is engaged but traction breaks at full torque from a standing start the information available to sensors can mislead the software into worsening the break in traction - the software treats the traction loss as being akin to hard turning/cornering at speed thus reducing power to the 'inside' wheels and increasing power to the 'outside' resulting in severe oversteer while the car barely moves at all. Good for doughnuts but not much else. Understandably in this case, there was no snap back to a racing line because the car, as mentioned, was barely moving. The loss of traction was immediate and race ending just a few metres from the start. Arguably though, this start wasn't under launch control - the smoke implies that it was a showy misadventure - so, at most, the traction control software helped to make things worse by offering the driver the chance to bow out of the race after performing a very impressive doughnut (at the wrong time and in the wrong place). Perhaps, Tesla's traction control is more refined. Still, responding to evidence of a light EV with massive amounts of torque being at the very limit of traction at launch with a quip akin to, Tesla has an app for that, doesn't really illuminate anything at all.
@orcalatorАй бұрын
Rimac Nevera has 1,914 hp, 1,741 lb⋅ft and it can go straight at 258mph, so i don't know what's so special with this car.
@ElMistroFerozАй бұрын
He’s never heard of the Rimac Nevera. Can someone please tell him?
@gjohnston6052Ай бұрын
@@ElMistroFeroz he states a production car.
@markbennett6658Ай бұрын
@@gjohnston6052it is/was a production car but Rimac didn’t produce many?
@rustychassisАй бұрын
And let’s not forget the Aspark OWL SP600, which can do 272mph in a straight line.
@orcalatorАй бұрын
@@markbennett6658 sold about 50+ with a plan of producing 150 in total
@andrewsaint6581Ай бұрын
When did Geely shed Lotus in favour of SAIC? I thought I'd missed something and quizzed Google with the same question ftom two sides. Both answers were Geely. Dyor. 👍.
@patrickshaw859525 күн бұрын
I'm an engineer and there is absolutely no reason that traction and stability control can't be made to work even on a 10,000 horsepower car. Locomotives do it it with that much power all day every day in America.
@donaldduck5731Ай бұрын
Thought Lotus was owner by Geely, as is Polestar, Volvo, Lynk&Co Proton and Smart
@Carl_in_AZАй бұрын
I remember in 2009 when my old employer, Schneider Electric, had Orange County Chopper build an electric chopper. The owner, Paul Teutul Sr., said after his first ride that he nearly crashed, he would never touch it again because it was too fast.
@ardyjayАй бұрын
With that amount of HP it's like driving on a sheet of ice. Take your foot off the gas, alleged professional race driver.😊
@slowery4321 күн бұрын
haha so tell us Princess about all the 1000hp cars you've driven recently since you seem to believe you're an expert on driving 1000 hp cars.
@ardyjay21 күн бұрын
@@slowery43 Wrong dude sweetheart. Meat with every meal and drive an F150. Oh and the physics of traction apply no matter what it's in. The idiot with the gas pedal is usually to blame.
@Michael-yi4mcАй бұрын
Don’t blame the car. Blame the operator!
@eddjordan2399Ай бұрын
it was the car it was a software problem
@Michael-yi4mcАй бұрын
@@eddjordan2399 👍The drove to the starting line okay.
@ThisRandomUsernameАй бұрын
@@Michael-yi4mc What does that tell you? They weren't using much accelerator to drive to the start line.
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@danalawton2986Ай бұрын
That wasn't too much power... look at the crash. The front right tire either locked up, lost power, or a software glitch. Everything else appeared to want to continue straight.
@JappaKneadsАй бұрын
He's never heard of the Rimac Nevera..
@12pentaboraneАй бұрын
HAAAMMOOOND!!!!!!!
@JappaKneadsАй бұрын
@@12pentaborane That was the much less powerful Rimac Concept 1, bruh...
@12pentaboraneАй бұрын
@@JappaKneads I read Rimac and thought you were making a Top Gear reference.
@JappaKneadsАй бұрын
@@12pentaborane np...
@Slayer-33Ай бұрын
They should be talking to Lucid about their traction controls lol.. Lucid Air Sapphire FTW!
@CURZONDAVIDАй бұрын
Geely: London Taxi Volvo Lotus Sorted 👌
@magnetospinАй бұрын
When I saw the title, I though it's going to be a high speed crash, turned out to crashed at like 3 miles per hour.
@comfortablynumb883211 күн бұрын
X
@ColinFoxАй бұрын
I wonder why there was zero traction control. I've seen Tesla Plaids launch with nary a whisp of smoke and get amazing times. I know that "real racers" like to turn off traction control for some reason, but it seems pretty counterproductive, as evidenced by this video.
@cardboardboxification19 күн бұрын
traction control is for lead foot people who have no clue how to control the throttle, just like anti lock brakes are for morons who slam on the brakes and lock up the wheels for people who never driven in dirt
@ColinFox17 күн бұрын
@@cardboardboxification No, traction control is for when you have a lot of power that you want to get down to the road as efficiently as possible. An electronic traction control system can react to slipping within a millisecond, and react far faster than you can. You are delusional if you think you can outperform a machine. This is why gearshifts went away to be replaced by flappy paddles. Because machines can do things so much faster and more accurately than we can.
@jfv65Ай бұрын
He probably switched off traction control. Bad idea in a 2000hp car. I bet it would have been just fine with traction control ON.
@slowery4321 күн бұрын
and this is based upon all your years of nver racing any cars, not being an enginner of any sort, not knowing at all anything about racing but having a keyboard and maybe playing a video game a few times right cupcake? ugh
@cardboardboxification19 күн бұрын
@@slowery43 everyone has traction control , It's your foot.... morons lock up brakes and crash going straight
@danharold3087Ай бұрын
Starting price on a Tesla Mode S Plaid is $88K and it has software the works. I realize they are very different cars but one would think Lotus could do better with a $2 million car. Need to remember this when skeptics complain about the $120K CT. According to Car and Driver , "the Evija's entire production run is sold out." They state that while some 2024 models still need to be built and delivered, the car is no longer available for purchase.
@skierpageАй бұрын
Supercar prototypes are easy. Production is very different. Despite Lotus showing the Evija for years and then coming up with special editions like the Fittipaldi edition and this one-off Evija X track car, Lotus still hasn't delivered more than a handful of cars to buyers. At its last track day where select people could drive them, the cars were still software-locked to less than the claimed 2000 horsepower. Likewise claims that "production of all 130 units is sold out" are... squishy. Lots of the ultra-rich can put down a deposit for delivery slot, but as time goes by, the car takes too long and doesn't meet promised specs, delivery slots magically open up. And the company has to announce a more and more baroque special editions to keep interest up. Tax wealth!
@paulschmidt6123Ай бұрын
The Evija X is NOT street legal and is NOT a production car.
@skierpageАй бұрын
and the Lotus Evija on which it's based is not yet a production car. Lotus delivered one car to Jenson Button in August 2023, but late last year when Lotus let potential buyers drive the Evija, it still hadn't enabled full 2,000 hp mode in software. Rimac has actually delivered over 50 Neveras to paying customers. "Prototypes are easy, production is hard" -- Elon Musk
@THEANPHROPY11 күн бұрын
4000 hp come on then unleash the flying cars!!! Peace & Love!!!
@ashtaroth1975Ай бұрын
Lotus it's owned by geely not saic
@nobiden313426 күн бұрын
1:03 😂😂OHHHH😂😂 that hit me hard!...😂😂😂
@ThePhantom41Ай бұрын
The 6m 24s lap wasn't a production car, it was the 'one off' Evija X, likely same car that crashed at Goodwood. The "production" part refers to the chassis which was the same as the standard car (has anyone actually received one?).
@jedcletis931326 күн бұрын
At last, an EV that can truly be called "The Widowmaker " :)
@johngonon1507Ай бұрын
Lotus belongs to Geely, not SAIC
@obhengАй бұрын
Lotus is owned by Geely, not SAIC. Geely took 51% share of Lotus which was once wholly owned by Proton, during the merger exercise between Geely and Proton.
@michaellee6868Ай бұрын
The Nurburgring is a very long track with well over 100 turns. If the Evija made any kind of a speed record there, it must be reasonably controllable with 2000HP. Unless it was in valet mode....
@localcrew2 күн бұрын
I watched the video of the electric Lotus at the Nurburgring. Impressive time. Now do two laps, back to back. They can’t. It takes a team of engineers to disassemble and cool down the batteries. So yeah, it’s a neat trick - but as is so often the case with electric vehicles, they’re just not practical in real life situations.
@mutyabaivandavid103Ай бұрын
Lotus is owned by geely
@waleedkhawaja8276Ай бұрын
Lotus is owned by Geely
@legoenginemechanic101Ай бұрын
No he didn’t destroy it the electronics messed up. You can see it get pulled to the side without them turning it to the side
@alexvinson7373Ай бұрын
I'm going to guess the driver accidentally turned off the traction control. With that kind of HP, you pretty much have to rely on at least some intervention.
@user-mb5ox5iw4fАй бұрын
Lotus is owned by Geely not SAIC!!
@zaxpage900324 күн бұрын
No matter what you drive, rule #1 is don't b an idiot. That driver is an idiot.
@hardi.howdy.983Ай бұрын
But you love fast and furious cars like that, like a boy racer 😁
@fivendimecaАй бұрын
2:24: "Fastest production car the world has ever seen".......except for the 12 or 15 cars that are faster, including the 32 year old McLaren F1. Love the effort (or lack of) that goes into the research on this site.
@ElMistroFerozАй бұрын
Better check your references. The McLaren can’t even beat a 2017 Model S P100D, let alone a recent one. Catch up dude. Acceleration is EV territory now.
@johnjackson2349Ай бұрын
@@ElMistroFeroz he's talking about top speed which is an entirely different topic
@user-gu6ps6ed6lАй бұрын
He said it made it around the track the fastest not top speed.
@fivendimecaАй бұрын
@@user-gu6ps6ed6lGood thing you didn't listen to the clip at 2:24. "It has a top speed of 218 mph, the fastest electric car....perhaps the fastest production car ever". Oh, and then there is The Rimac Nevera....256 mph....
@skierpageАй бұрын
Yup, so many mistakes. 218 mph isn't even top speed for an EV, the Rimac Nevera is limited to 219 mph and with its limiter disabled it reached 258 mph. And the Lotus Evija X is not street legal, it's a one-off track-only car based on the Evija, which has yet to begin regular customer deliveries. Instead of wasting time on this video, just read motor1's "Here's Why the Lotus Evija X Crashed at Goodwood"
@comradewolfАй бұрын
When a car's name rhymes with Evil & Ouija, what else do we expect?
@stephenroberts8057Күн бұрын
Loads Of Trouble Usually Serious
@ingo_8628Ай бұрын
Looks like it was in drift mode, but the important thing is: it got the attention, thats what counts if you want to sell.
@skierpageАй бұрын
Evija doesn't have a drift mode, unlike the Nevera. But motor1 says "According to Lotus-which offered more detail to the Goodwood Road & Racing website-the driver turned off traction control, which sent all 1,257 pound-feet of torque to the wheels in an instant."
@doofer80Ай бұрын
It is an out-n-out record breaking attempt of a car. Watch the Nurburgring video, it needs a team of engineers and dry ice to cool the cell which is only large enough to barely complete an out and flying lap at the ring.
@kevroll99Ай бұрын
Crazy, hard to believe a race car driver would make that bad or a mistake at the start. I think he was trying to show off with a big ol burnout and it got the best of him.
@melvingrimes788625 күн бұрын
It's not that it makes 2000hp it's that it makes it instantly.
@goldreverreАй бұрын
when you've got 500hp odd running through each wheel, managing torque-steer becomes a very finely tuned requirement
@rishinarang9966Ай бұрын
Sad that its no longer a british company.
@jfv65Ай бұрын
Why? Volvo is no longer Swedish, Rolls Royce and Bentley are no longer British. Opel is no longer GM-Germany. Etcetera. We live in a globalised world.
@colinbowman8816Ай бұрын
@@jfv65because the culture of the company won't be the same. If you liked Lotus cars and their design philosophy, and goals, well that's gone. It's maybe still something good, but it won't be the same thing.
@Storm4155Ай бұрын
Sorry man........but the British Empire has well and truly expired.
@rishinarang9966Ай бұрын
@@colinbowman8816 The issue is that they are now just rebadged Chinese vehicles. That sense of craftsmanship is gone
@linphilip6389Ай бұрын
@@rishinarang9966chinese craftsmanship is better. live in the new old please you old troll
@twostate7822Ай бұрын
Only a 70 kWh battery?!? The anti-EV stooges will be complaining about range anxiety . 😂
@skierpageАй бұрын
The one-off track-only Lotus Evija X is a modified version of the street-legal Evija, which has a 93 kWh battery. Lotus probably reduced the battery to reduce weight and have less battery to cool, while still having enough charge to make it around the Nürburgring to claim "fastest 'Ring time ever for a 'production-based' car that was originally based on a production vehicle, not that we've managed to actually deliver multiple Evijas to paying customers, but hope springs eternal..."
@ElMistroFerozАй бұрын
No such thing as “too fast”. If it’s uncontrollable then the traction control and braking was poorly made.
@skierpageАй бұрын
Lotus says the driver turned off traction control, probably in order to smoke all four tires to look and sound REALLY COOL.
@wtfskilz12 күн бұрын
It's the same reason i turn traction control completely off when I race in my Mustang. I recorded the results and always get better acceleration with it off. The driver had such bad traction lost before the crash that he smoked the tires and his ego kept him on the throttle. This has 0 to do with the design and 100% to do with the driver.
@deweycheatemandhowe244626 күн бұрын
Lotus EV is like a digital Rolex 😮😢😂
@listerdave1240Ай бұрын
A car can never have too much power. The driver is supposed to control how much power to put in the wheels. If too much was put into the wheels it's because the driver pressed the pedal too far, not because the car has too much power. The size of the engine/motor should not be what limits the power, the driver's brain should, or driver assist automation. That being said there exists traction control to make up for the shortcomings of the driver but often 'skilled' drivers think they know better and turn it off, which is probably what happened here. I don't think it would have crashed in that manner if it had traction control enabled, unless it was faulty.
@PBJ-pl1buАй бұрын
Have you heard about the Aspark OWL SP600, the top speed is 272 mph. Faster than the Rimac Nevera.
@Ask-a-Rocket-Scientist25 күн бұрын
You have to use traction control to deal with that much power.😊
@rk8829515 күн бұрын
If u switch off traction control, rev the motor to make insane burnout and move the steering, what else you expect, those tyres are not hrd tyres those are soft tyres so it will catch traction any time
@RodneyWАй бұрын
I am in shock. I am in agreement with Sam.....😅
@stefanhallinАй бұрын
Lotus is owned by the Geely Group, not SaIc. Geely acquired Lotus when they bought Proton, who’d bought it years prior.
@tedmossАй бұрын
When my father got a new 1963 MG-B he and I raced on the back roads and he crashed right in front of me, I was 6 inches behind him in my mother's BMW. He hit the guardrail with his front fender and hit the dirt embankment on the other side with his rear. This was 2 weeks after buying it. When we got home home, my mother said what went wrong? She knew we did something stupid because we were a few minutes late getting home. Later he said, "How did you miss me? I miss them both.
@CanisoGamingАй бұрын
Damn i didnt know they made an extreme version of this car lol, this is insane
@johnmurphy48149 күн бұрын
The Goodwood festival of speed is barely a race track, it's a winding hill-climb with little room for error...
@0kemeАй бұрын
Lotus es GEELY GROUP .
@Emiliocab47Ай бұрын
It was probably an issue with the software. If you look carefully, you will see that the driver attempts to steer to correct the initial drift, but the wheels do not respond.
@izzdee26 күн бұрын
Props to lotus. If you ain’t breaking something you’re not pushing hard enough. A crash for lotus and a step forward for Motorsport.
@RobWhittlestoneАй бұрын
I heard an expert saying that the Lotus had a software problem, since the motors are controlled by computers with accelerometers to control attitude etc.
@SydneyEVАй бұрын
One of the most under rated part of Tesla, its traction control, allows normal drivers to still floor it, and keep control of a machine that can do 0-11 in 3.2 seconds.
@brentcowan8077Ай бұрын
thought all the fancy electronics would keep it straight!!! This is progress!!
@user-sw8vb2qo8y15 күн бұрын
There is no such thing as "too much power". The only thing that applies all the time is "not good enough to drive it".
@MrFunkiaКүн бұрын
If you are smoking all four tyres, then you've effectively lost control.
@billkunert728112 күн бұрын
How many high speed laps will it do at Nurburgring on 1 charge?
@asphalthedgehog6580Ай бұрын
Most drivers can't even handle a 2CV but now anyone can buy a 2000kg monster with 500+ HP.
@plap.Ай бұрын
it wasn't the drivers fault the ECU that controls the four motors screwed up and applied the power uncontrolled. Electric power is mitigated by the computer and nessasary for any electric car to be controlled by a human
@skierpageАй бұрын
the driver turned off traction control
@AC-wl7ve26 күн бұрын
The one that set that lap time was not a production model.
@jezza6575Ай бұрын
No way in heck did they make it 50 feet Sam…not a chance😂
@tazanteflight8670Ай бұрын
Its up to traction control software to keep the car straight. It has torque vectoring, instead of a differential. The driver is innocent.
@psychosis7325Ай бұрын
States a heap of facts about the acceleration at high speeds where exponentially more power is needed to overcome the wind resistance... "I dunno why anyone would want 2000hp" 😕🤦♂️ Maaaaaaate..... Kids with 140hp stuff up skids in narrow gaps like that all the time and he was just going full send with the TC off for show, was near one the coolest power skids I ever seen 👌 props to driver and team for going full send with that thing.
@Rob-rp3cwАй бұрын
No driver error. The individual wheels went crazy spinning the vehicle. It's electronic, not analog. Do not blame driver the car did crazy stuff
@richystar2001Ай бұрын
Maybe they have gone too far?... If you are an actual car enthusiast would never say a car has too much power.
@skierpageАй бұрын
The driver turned off traction control, probably to show off and smoke all four tires.
@doofer80Ай бұрын
It looks like it may have been a launch control malfunction or something similar, even as the rear of the car hits the hay bales the wheels are still spinning. No race driver would have continued to throttle after the frontal impact if not before said impact. no amount of pedal control is going to maximise power, traction and launch with those stats. That's why most super/hypercars/evs have luanch control. Unless Goodwood doesn't allow such systems for timed runs, but i doubt that tbh.
@pauljmeyer1Ай бұрын
The car was not designed for drag racing. It should be possible to restrict the torque during the initial take-off to prevent wasteful burn-out and loss of stability.
@MrAdopadoАй бұрын
It wasn't drag racing. It was the timed hill climb on a narrow winding track at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
@pauljmeyer1Ай бұрын
@@MrAdopado, I didn't say it was, but I indicated that a drag racer would be more stable at a 'burn-out start.' I also suggested that a torque regulator for traction control would be useful because of the power-to-weight ratio. .
@RickDenzienАй бұрын
Man, total software failure!
@TheHogartАй бұрын
I agree, 💯
@1183newmanАй бұрын
@@TheHogart I dont think it was software failure, i think it was an intentional burnout like the car has performed in the past. Just this time it went wrong due to driver error.
@bobsmith3983Ай бұрын
Traction control was turned off. If traction control was on there would be very little tire smoke on launch and the car would not spin out.
@Seventh7ArtАй бұрын
2000 horsepower is not too much power... Koenigsegg Gemera is a hybrid that produces 2300 horsepower and has 4 seats...
@user-uj9fl3rd7nАй бұрын
Yeah, but... We're talking 2000 ELECTRIC horsepower
@ElMistroFerozАй бұрын
@@user-uj9fl3rd7n You have to also consider Traction Control on EVs is a whole different league.
@chrisbarron5861Ай бұрын
@@user-uj9fl3rd7n it's no different whether it's from EV or ICE.
@chrisbarron5861Ай бұрын
@@ElMistroFeroz Not apparently in this video, though
@bobsmith3983Ай бұрын
@@chrisbarron5861 It does matter as with EVs you have maximum torque at 0 RPM to the RPM limit. ICE motor don't have that torque at low RPM.
@passdasaltАй бұрын
I hope they remove those 'foot amputators" for the street legal version. @1:35
@skierpageАй бұрын
Of course.. The Lotus Evija X is a one-off track car based on the production Evija (that has actually yet to actually enter series production with deliveries to multiple customers).
@airheart1Ай бұрын
😂🤣.. hilarious Laughable to call this a production car lol. What are they gonna produce 20? 50 a year? People need a realistic definition of the words, production car. Hand building a couple dozen cars a year, should NOT qualify. They just keep stretching the meaning to get to say.. fastest production car ever.. it’s BS though. These are custom, ultra rare vehicles being, largely, hand made. Nothing normal ‘production’ about them
@skierpageАй бұрын
@@fredkite9330 the Lotus Evija X is not road legal, it's a one-off track-only car based on the "regular" Lotus Evija. And despite Lotus claiming several times that production has begun and even announcing special editions like the Fittipaldi edition, Lotus has yet to deliver multiple cars to buyers. One definition of "production car" from the FIS that regulates car racing is "25 substantially identical cars produced in a 12-month period." Rimac Nevera has achieved that; the Lotus Evija and Aspark Owl haven't yet, just like many low-volume sports cars.
@cardboardboxification19 күн бұрын
it's a garage queen, anyone who buys one will never drive it , except to get Starbucks
@tomgrant6563Ай бұрын
What's a mile an hour?! You sound like a fellow Aussie to me.
@loicdore3912 күн бұрын
How many laps does it do in the nurburgring ?
@ronaldluning4010Ай бұрын
It doesn't look like the driver used counter steer until the car was heading into the barrier.
@Tonystarkes888Ай бұрын
2000 hp is fast 😮😮😮
@chris27gea58Ай бұрын
After the first crash into the wall the Evija more or less came to a stand still before one of the rear wheel motors engaged again, in reverse! Something was seriously wrong with that car. Cooked electronics, perhaps.
@yodad477616 күн бұрын
0-400 in OH THE BATTERYS FLAT
@ozviking8052Ай бұрын
It’s about power to weight ratio - not hp. The Evija Is good but beaten by at least 7 other cars. And to say that a car has too many hp for racing is silly. Any race driver wants more power.
@FairladyS130Ай бұрын
There are plenty of 2000 hp ICE cars that are successfully driven in anger, my bet is that the duracell one was poorly balanced or faulty some other way.
@jonvelde5730Ай бұрын
iCE horsepower and electric horsepower are quite different. An ICE engine has a torque curve that starts low and climbs as the rpm spool up. An electric motor has maximum torque available from the instant you touch the accelerator. Traction control is useful on a powerful gasoline auto, but it"S absolutely ESSENTIAL on a powerful EV. Either that, or an extremely light touch on the accelerator.
@FairladyS130Ай бұрын
@@jonvelde5730 2000 hp spins the wheels no matter what the engine.
@skierpageАй бұрын
motor1: "According to Lotus-which offered more detail to the Goodwood Road & Racing website-the driver turned off traction control, which sent all 1,257 pound-feet of torque to the wheels in an instant. In the first few feet, the rear wheels were spinning at 170 miles per hour and the front tires were moving at 150 mph. The driver attempted to save the car from spinning by lifting off the throttle, but the balance of the car shifted, which sent it headlong into the hay barrels."
@JettoGospelАй бұрын
That's just insane, maybe for the track it is usable but as a daily driver...that power is more or less suicide and manslaughter.