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    The Long Ranger

    Feb 17, 2021 4 minutes
    by JOHN BARKER

    BY 2030 WE COULD BE WATCHING all-electric racers like this competing in endurance races such as Le Mans, Daytona and Spa, says Lotus Engineering. Its design study, titled E-R9, is what it imagines such a long-distance racer could look like and combines not only pure electric power and adaptive suspension geometry, but also ‘morphing’ surfaces for adaptive aerodynamics and jet fighter-style ‘aero vectoring’ for highspeed cornering.

    It’s a great-looking sports racer, with its delta-wing upper body and jet-fighter canopy, and Lotus has deployed its free-thinking, competition-honed expertise to imagine what technology it might embody. But is it really possible that we could have electric endurance racers

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