Lotus Says Its $233K Electric SUV No Longer Makes Sense To Sell In America

Just a handful of Eletre models were sold in the US last year. The all-electric Eletre Carbon started at a staggering $232,900. Soaring import duties ultimately eroded the SUV’s business case. Lotus had big ambitions about selling the all-electric Eletre in the United States. The SUV was supposed to arrive from just $107,000, a figure that reads reasonably against the performance and technology on the table even if six digits is hardly pocket change. An Eletre costing just north of $100,000 never made it to a single American driveway. var adpushup = window.adpushup = window.adpushup || {que:[]}; adpushup.que.push(function() { if (adpushup.config.platform !== “DESKTOP”){ adpushup.triggerAd(“0f7e3106-c4d6-4db4-8135-c508879a76f8”); } else { adpushup.triggerAd(“82503191-e1d1-435a-874f-9c78a2a54a2f”); } });…

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