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Lotus Immediately Crashes Its 2,000-HP Evija X Prototype At Goodwood Festival Of Speed
It was a hard hit for the electric hypercar as it left the start line on Thursday
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I mean, not really. The crowd was closer on the other side, so it missed!Lotus...trying hard to unseat the Mustang as the public display of crashing leader.
It seems as if a motor locked for a split second, as you said. With almost 2000 HP, almost anything can happen... and even the smallest issue can lead to dire consequences.My bet? This had nothing at all to do with the driver and was entirely a software issue. I am, of course, pulling that completely out of my ass, but my bet is that at that insane level of torque, somehow the power to the individual motors got incorrectly directed and/or was out of sync, causing the rubber to spin out.
Purely just a guess
Oh I was joking.My bet? This had nothing at all to do with the driver and was entirely a software issue. I am, of course, pulling that completely out of my ass, but my bet is that at that insane level of torque, somehow the power to the individual motors got incorrectly directed and/or was out of sync, causing the rubber to spin out.
Purely just a guess
My bet? This had nothing at all to do with the driver and was entirely a software issue. I am, of course, pulling that completely out of my ass, but my bet is that at that insane level of torque, somehow the power to the individual motors got incorrectly directed and/or was out of sync, causing the rubber to spin out.
Purely just a guess
"Following a formal evaluation by both Goodwood and Lotus, asymmetric grip caused by overcorrection during rapid acceleration at the start line was determined to be the cause," Lotus told us in a statement earlier this week. "The driver was unharmed in the incident and there was minimal damage to the car."