Tough Times for Tesla Amid Political Backlash To find a more difficult time to be a Tesla (TSLA) investor, one would have to go all the way back to 2008, before Tesla was even a public company. At ...

an in-house modular chassis platform that would underpin its future electric vehicles. The Elise's discontinuation was also linked to Lotus' decision to upgrade its paint shop to an automated one ...

And when an Elise recently met its maker at ... FastX Autosport What was difficult, however, was the way Lotus attached the crash structure to the chassis. Instead of bolting it in like any ...

The Lotus Elise is one of those few ... Its pioneering and advanced bonded aluminium chassis was a market-leading technological innovation at the time and over the years has improved and evolved ...

Back in the Nineties, shortly after Lotus introduced the original Elise, the company made it known ... from Lotus Engineering even shows the Evora chassis carrying an electric powertrain.

The erstwhile Lotus Elise, conceived in 1994 and the first model, rolled off the production line in 1996. It featured a bonded extruded aluminum chassis and a fiberglass body, and it weighed just ...

By this stage in the Elise’s evolution, Lotus had completed the transition ... It has a suppleness to its chassis that marks it out as something special, at least if you appreciate a car that ...

To the uninitiated, the Lotus Exige S1 looks like an early Elise with a hardtop and a set of spoilers, and some Elise owners ...

The extruded aluminum chassis is derived from that of the Lotus Elise, a British sports car, and while the Tesla looks similar to the Elise, its carbon-fiber body panels are unique. An electric ...

But I still thoroughly enjoyed driving the supercharged Elise because fundamentally it has the same aluminium chassis, same brilliant suspension, same wonderful Lotus qualities that make them all ...