That's I thought, I'm sure it still is part of the Geely group.

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.

I worked for Lotus when it was owned by GM

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.

Its not too much power its too much power for that particular driver who should have slept in that day period!!!!

So sayeth Pirelli

"Power is nothing without control"

Its drivers error,

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.

wrr

It would need tremendous downforce and traction control to make full use of 2000 hp.

It's not too fast though, it crashed at like 3 mph.

@@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.

Exactly the moment where you gain back faith in God xD

Yes the smoke is evidence of hyper traction loss. His ego kept him from using proper throttle control.

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.

ahhhhhh that's why !! another "good looking" fake crap...

I thought that Lotus looked sort of Asian.

​@@heretikpapy Lotus Emira. A real beauty.

China bought Lotus from Malaysia.😊

Lotus is now located and built in Wuhan, China

putting on a show for the crowd

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.

Drag racer: hold muh beer

Is Geely an american company?

​@@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

@@travellover3373 Geely is Chinese. They own Volvo and many other brands

​@@travellover3373Geely owns 51% of Lotus. The remaining 49% is owned by a Malaysian company.

@@keeptalking100 Right, did EV say Lotus is owned by american or chinese?

Hardware issue. Too hard on the accelerator pedal!

Obviously traction control was turned off.

Yeah it let out full power.

it was a software meat puppet glitch thinking it was on a drag strip

This comment is the actual truth. 4 independent motors - 1 motor was given too much input. It had nothing to do with the driver.

look like they have the option to turn off some of the control.

@@jxmai7687So in the end it was driver error if that was the case.

Every car does that. Lotus EVs launches just fine, if you keep the ESC on.

Teslas

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.

He’s never heard of the Rimac Nevera. Can someone please tell him?

@@ElMistroFeroz he states a production car.

@@gjohnston6052it is/was a production car but Rimac didn’t produce many?

And let’s not forget the Aspark OWL SP600, which can do 272mph in a straight line.

@@markbennett6658 sold about 50+ with a plan of producing 150 in total

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.

@@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.

it was the car it was a software problem

@@eddjordan2399 👍The drove to the starting line okay.

@@Michael-yi4mc What does that tell you? They weren't using much accelerator to drive to the start line.

Wow. I'm a bit perplexed seeing her been mentioned here also Didn't know she has been good to so many people too this is wonderful, i'm in my fifth trade with her and it has been super.

The first step to successful investing is figuring out your goals and risk tolerance either on your own or with the help of a financial professional but is very advisable you make use of a professional.

Isn't that the same Mrs Elizabeth Slone that my neighbours are talking about, she has to be a perfect expert for people to talk about her so well

I'm new at this, please how can I reach her?

I was skeptical at first till I decided to try. Its huge returns is awesome. I can't say much

HAAAMMOOOND!!!!!!!

@@12pentaborane That was the much less powerful Rimac Concept 1, bruh...

@@JappaKneads I read Rimac and thought you were making a Top Gear reference.

@@12pentaborane np...

X

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

@@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.

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

@@slowery43 everyone has traction control , It's your foot.... morons lock up brakes and crash going straight

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!

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

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.

​@@ElMistroFeroz he's talking about top speed which is an entirely different topic

He said it made it around the track the fastest not top speed.

@@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....

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"

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."

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.

​@@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.

Sorry man........but the British Empire has well and truly expired.

@@colinbowman8816 The issue is that they are now just rebadged Chinese vehicles. That sense of craftsmanship is gone

​@@rishinarang9966chinese craftsmanship is better. live in the new old please you old troll

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..."

Lotus says the driver turned off traction control, probably in order to smoke all four tires to look and sound REALLY COOL.

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.

the driver turned off traction control

The driver turned off traction control, probably to show off and smoke all four tires.

It wasn't drag racing. It was the timed hill climb on a narrow winding track at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

@@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. .

I agree, 💯

@@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.

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.

Yeah, but... We're talking 2000 ELECTRIC horsepower

@@user-uj9fl3rd7n You have to also consider Traction Control on EVs is a whole different league.

@@user-uj9fl3rd7n it's no different whether it's from EV or ICE.

@@ElMistroFeroz Not apparently in this video, though

@@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.

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).

@@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.

it's a garage queen, anyone who buys one will never drive it , except to get Starbucks

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.

@@jonvelde5730 2000 hp spins the wheels no matter what the engine.

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."