Automotive Engineer commissions Lotus to design tiny city EV [w/VIDEO]

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Lotus incorporated town car design – click above to watch the videos after the jump

Developing cars nimbly is thing of no importance new to the designers and engineers at Lotus in England. They be sufficient contract development for automakers around the world all the time. With that in mind – and knowing that Lotus has been actively involved in many electric and cross vehicle projects in recent years – the editors at Automotive Engineer magazine naturally approached them by a project idea: design a brief on what a new city car main look like five years from now.

After two weeks of work, Lotus design chief Russell Carr produced a design brief that defined a car 3.74 inches shorter than a Smart ForTwo and nearly 16 inches shorter than the new Toyota iQ. Somehow in that little space, Carr has managed to squeeze in extent for four adults. The sketches show two different iterations of the vehicle, the two with two lapse doors on the flanks. All are electrically-driven with a liquid-cooled 37 kW motor and a 10 kWh lithium ion battery pack under the floor. See more in the video after the jump.