Lotus Theory 1 is a high-powered electric sports car with haptics and robot textiles

Lotus revealed its caller Theory 1 electrical sports car, a conception that nan automaker says “embodies nan early of intelligent capacity vehicles.”

It’s a ocular assistance for Lotus’ caller Digital, Natural, and Analogue (DNA — get it?) creation principles connected which it plans to guidelines its capacity vehicles for nan modern era.

Theory 1 features Lotus’ caller “Lotuswear” interior that promises an immersive and personalized driving experience. It adapts physically to nan driver and passengers, making seats much comfortable and communicating pinch lights and haptic feedback that tin show you erstwhile to make a turn, for example.

The interior materials are lightweight robotic textiles built by MotorSkins that usage inflatable pods successful nan seating and steering instrumentality that dynamically set while driving. You’ll astir apt request that assist, too, arsenic nan conception outputs almost 1000 horsepower, has a apical velocity of 320km per hr (nearly 200mph), and a 0–62mph acceleration successful little than 2.5 seconds.

Lotuswear besides encapsulates each nan different modern exertion hardware and package bits of nan vehicle, including an OLED screen, artificial “speed” sounds, interior noise-canceling, and immersive audio.

It’s besides Level 4-capable pinch self-driving hardware that includes 4 lidar sensors and six HD cameras, arsenic good arsenic an Nvidia Drive machine level for real-time processing astir nan car. And it features steer-by-wire pinch an electrical scope of 250 miles (WTLP).

The Theory 1 is not slated to spell into production; it’s meant to service arsenic a “canvas” for R&D, according to Lotus. The automaker’s genitor company, Geely, is moving to reinvent Lotus into nan electrical age, and it has immoderate cool EVs successful nan pipeline for illustration nan Emeya. The Theory 1 conception shows nan British automaker still believes successful lightweight sports cars — just for illustration nan Japanese.