When Lotus unveiled the all-electric Evija hypercar in 2019, everyone immediately saw it as a potential Nürburgring-Nordschleife lap record setter for production electric vehicles.
At the time, Louis Kerr, Lotus's principal platform engineer, confirmed those expectations to PistonHeads. "Yes, we are thinking of the Nordschleife, we think we'll be comfortably quicker than the NIO EP9 there," he said.