The Lotus Evija has just ripped up the Autocar record book
Lotus Evija vs the Autocar Road Test: This 1500kW EV (2039hp) has cut the established 0-322km/h (0-200mph) benchmark by a massive 40 per cent.
The Lotus Evija hypercar - at the time of its announcement, the most powerful road-legal car to enter series production - has set a series of new searing performance benchmarks as part of its full Autocar Road Test.
First shown to the world in 2019, with deliveries to customers beginning in 2024, the Evija has swept all before it among yardsticks for acceleration particular to higher speed ranges. It is now the quickest car recorded in Autocar’s annals of road test performance figures, which themselves date back more than a century, when measured from standing to 241km/h (150mph); and to 322km/h (200mph); and over both a standing quarter-mile and kilometre.
Moreover, the margin of its dominance in at least three of those four measurements is monumentally large. “The Evija’s acceleration feels fast, but less exceptionally so through both 100- and 160km/h (60- and 100mph),” said Autocar Road Test Editor Matt Saunders. “But the extraordinary potency of its four electric motors, combined with the car’s improving capacity to put that power down as downforce builds on its body, makes it downright staggering to experience beyond 160km/h (100mph).”
“From 160- to 240km/h (100- to 150mph), it’s almost three seconds faster than any other hypercar we’ve ever figured; from 240- to 322km/h (150- to 200mph), it’s more like five seconds quicker. It can accelerate from 240- to 290km/h (150- to 180mph) in the same time (2.7sec) that it takes a BMW M4 CS to get from 100- to 145km/h (60- to 90mph).”
The Evija becomes only the third road-legal production car that Autocar has tested all the way to 320km/h (200mph); which it cleared leaving plenty of room for braking within a measured mile. “We habitually figure cars over a standing kilometre as part of our road test benchmarking, in order that we’ve always got some safety margin” Saunders continued. “It’s rare, but not unknown, for road-legal cars to be doing more than 290km/h (180mph) at that point. But the Evija went past the kilometre marker at fully 350km/h (217.4mph), already straining against its electronic speed limiter.”
How the Autocar records currently stand: 0-97km/h (0-60mph)
1. Tesla Model S Plaid (2023) - 2.4sec
=2. Ferrari SF90 Stradale (2021) - 2.5sec
=2. Porsche 911 Turbo S (2022) - 2.5sec
=2. Lamborghini Revuelto (2024) - 2.5sec
=5. Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (2011) - 2.6sec
=5. Porsche 918 Spyder (2014) - 2.6sec
=5. Porsche Taycan Turbo S (2024) - 2.6sec
0-161km/h (0-100mph)
1. Tesla Model S Plaid (2023) - 4.6sec
=2. Ferrari SF90 Stradale (2021) - 4.8sec
=2. Lamborghini Revuelto (2024) - 4.8sec
=2. Lotus Evija (2025) - 4.8sec
5. Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (2011) - 5.0sec
0-241km/h (0-150mph)
1. Lotus Evija (2025) - 7.7sec
2. Tesla Model S Plaid (2023) - 9.4sec
3. Lamborghini Revuelto (2024) - 10.0sec
4. Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (2011) - 10.2sec
5. Ferrari SF90 Stradale (2021) - 10.4sec
0-322km/h (0-200mph)
1. Lotus Evija (2025) - 13.0sec
2. Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (2011) - 22.2sec
3. McLaren F1 (1994) - 28.0sec
Standing ¼ mile (time taken to reach 0.4km from rest)
1. Lotus Evija (2025) - 9.5sec at 276.2km/h (171.6mph)
2. Tesla Model S Plaid (2023) - 9.6sec at 244.8km/h (152.1mph)
3. Lamborghini Revuelto (2024) - 9.9sec at 240.3km/h (149.3mph)
4. Ferrari SF90 Stradale (2021) - 9.9sec at 236.3km/h (146.8mph)
5. Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (2011) - 10.1sec at 238.0km/h (147.9mph)
Standing km (time taken to reach 0.6 of a mile from rest)
1. Lotus Evija (2025) - 16.2sec at 349.9km/h (217.4mph)
2. Lamborghini Revuelto (2024) - 17.7sec at 300.3km/h (186.6mph)
3. Ferrari SF90 Stradale (2021) - 17.9sec at 296.4km/h (184.2mph)
4. Tesla Model S Plaid (2023) - 17.9sec at 255.1km/h (158.5mph)
5. Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (2011) - 18.0sec at 295.2km/h (183.4mph)
Autocar’s landmark ten-page road test of the £2mil (2.5 million euros), 1500kW (2039hp) Evija is in the 30th July print issue of Autocar, and is also available in digital form here and on Apple News + here.
Alternatively read more about the Evija, and the road test at Autocar.co.uk
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