The Lotus Evija, one of the world’s most powerful production cars, has established itself as a historic performance leader by smashing a series of records in the definitive Autocar Road Test.
The all-electric hypercar shattered multiple acceleration records, solidifying its status as a groundbreaking achievement in automotive engineering.
Following the beginning of customer deliveries, the Evija has been put through Autocar’s definitive, industry-leading road test, in which it outpaced all competitors in key acceleration metrics.
The Evija is in many respects the fastest car yet to undergo the test since it was first established in April 1928, recording the quickest time for a 0-200mph sprint and covering a standing quarter-mile and kilometre faster than any car previously.
From 100-150mph, the Evija is nearly three seconds faster than any hypercar previously tested by Autocar, and from 150-200mph, it extends that advantage to five seconds. The Evija accelerates from 150-180mph in just 2.7 seconds – the same time it takes a typical high-performance saloon to go from 60-90mph.
The Evija also becomes only the third road-legal production car Autocar has timed from rest all the way to 200mph during road test benchmarking. Impressively, it reached that milestone well within a standing kilometre, leaving plenty of room for braking within a standing mile and hitting its 217.4mph limiter inside of a distance within which the very fastest cars can typically hit ‘only’ 180mph.
Matt Saunders, Autocar road test editor, said: “Hypercar makers some time back shifted their focus away from top speed as a distinguishing feature. Some have opted for outright circuit pace, but Lotus chose something powerful electric motors could be truly exceptional at: the 0-200mph, standing-kilometre drag-strip blast.
“In 2011, the Bugatti Veyron cut the standard for that – as verified by this magazine in 1994 with the McLaren F1 – by 21%. In 2025, proportionally speaking, the Evija’s leap is twice that size.”
