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A casual dyno session is scheduled for this Saturday, 31 March 2007 at GT Auto. Interested parties to meet at 9.30am @ Sunway Foodcourt, or 10.00am @ GT Auto. Highlights would be a road-going Stage 3 Satria R3 and a handful of SGTi and Stage 2 Satria R3s. Come one, come all! Dyno-tuning is also available. Please check with Thomas of GT Auto.

Lotus Engineering, in a joint R & D cooperation with Proton Holdings Bhd will showcase the ‘EVE Hybrid’ technology at the 77th Geneva International Motor Show. EVE which stands for Efficient, Viable, Environmental, is a hybrid solution for OEMs to easily retro-integrate into current platforms, hence lowering development costs.

Lotus will be demonstrating the technology with a specially-prepared Proton Gen.2 at the motorshow. The hybrid solution delivers up to 22% CO2 reduction and improvement in fuel economy by 28% (50.2mpg from 39.2mpg) over the standard 1.6-litre S4PH CamPro engine.

The EVE Hybrid showcases a trio of production-representative technologies:

1. a ‘micro-hybrid’ start-stop system
2. a full parallel hybrid drive
3. Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT)

Read about Lotus at the Geneva International Motor Show.

About Lotus Engineering
Lotus Engineering provides comprehensive and versatile automotive consultancy services to many of the world’s OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers, offering a full engineering service from initial concept and project design through development to full production prototype build. This includes third party “niche vehicle” engineering and manufacture.