http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/carreviews/firstdrives/204332/lotus_exige.html
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| ,......As one Lotus engineer told us, “it’s saving the planet at some speed”. And the new car’s impressive potential certainly proves it. Where the Exige S on which it is based covers 0-62mph in a brisk 4.3 seconds, the 265E completes the benchmark sprint in only 3.88 seconds when using ethanol. That ensures it’s Lotus’ quickest-ever road car.
But if you want to see what makes it so quick, you’ll have to look closely at the science behind the firm’s claims. Badges aside, there is nothing to tell the green car apart from the standard Exige on the outside. That’s because the company has focused on how the energy-laden fuel is supplied in conjunction with the supercharger. On a majority petrol mixture, performance is only slightly better than that of the 218bhp Exige S. However, once ethanol makes up 70 per cent of the fuel cocktail, power jumps to 264bhp. That’s because ethanol carries its own oxygen, which burns with the air in the atmosphere to deliver a more ferocious explosion in the combustion chamber...... |
