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The challenging road ahead for Lotus
New boss Matt Windle s toughest task will be turning the car company s electric dreams into reality
The Lotus Evija costs £2m and is capable of 200mph
Credit: Jorge Ferrari
As the world’s richest man and one of the most famous people on the planet, Elon Musk can draw a crowd just by walking down the street.
But back in the mid-Noughties, the tycoon and his team from Tesla raised fewer eyebrows during visits to the headquarters of Norfolk-based sports car company Lotus in rural Hethel.
Tesla had recognised that Lotus produced the best-handling sports car on the road, according to the electric car company’s co-founder Martin Eberhard. It wanted to tap that expertise.
In Alamogordo, New Mexico, Florence Nightingale is known for being a bit cantankerous.
She’s an older, bigger lady and when she stops working, she often needs some gentle coaxing before she’ll start again. The coronavirus pandemic has pushed her to the brink, and working so much overtime depleted her tank. She spent the holiday break getting some much-needed pampering.
Flo, as her friends call her, is a 40-foot Winnebago turned into a mobile nurse s station. She s Alamogordo Public Schools most lauded health care provider, purchased with CARES funding.
Her most frequent passenger? School nurse Lisa Patch, who is also the health services director for the rural school district just 80 miles from the Mexican border.
Lotus to build new sports car after £100m vote of confidence in UK
Sports car maker to add 250 jobs and launch new vehicles from its base in Norfolk
25 January 2021 • 4:08pm
Lotus is to invest £100m in new manufacturing facilities at its Norfolk base to build a new range of sports cars.
The company, which is owned Chinese conglomerate Geely and Malaysia-based Etika Automotive, said it would begin production of the “Type 131” prototype this year.
It will take on a further 250 staff in addition to the almost 1,500 already employed by the company. Lotus will also relocate two sub-assembly plants into a combined site to boost efficiency.
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