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 the automaker says “embodies the aboriginal of intelligent show vehicles.”

It’s a ocular assistance for Lotus’ caller Digital, Natural, and Analogue (DNA — get it?) plan principles connected which it plans to basal its show vehicles for the modern era.

Theory 1 features Lotus’ caller “Lotuswear” interior that promises an immersive and personalized driving experience. It adapts physically to the operator and passengers, making seats much comfy and communicating with lights and haptic feedback that tin archer you erstwhile to marque a turn, for example.

The interior materials are lightweight robotic textiles built by MotorSkins that usage inflatable pods successful the seating and steering instrumentality that dynamically set portion driving. You’ll astir apt request that assist, too, arsenic the conception outputs astir 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 the different modern exertion hardware and bundle bits of the vehicle, including an OLED screen, artificial “speed” sounds, interior noise-canceling, and immersive audio.

It’s besides Level 4-capable with 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 the car. And it features steer-by-wire with 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 the electrical age, and it has immoderate cool EVs successful the pipeline similar the Emeya. The Theory 1 conception shows the British automaker inactive believes successful lightweight sports cars — just similar the Japanese.