Lotus Chooses HERE Technologies to Deliver Navigation Services in its Electric Hyper-SUV

Lotus and its partner ECARX have chosen HERE Technologies to deliver integrated navigation to the recently launched Lotus ELETRE, the automaker's first pure electric hyper-SUV. HERE Navigation is a software-as-a-service navigation solution for connected vehicles.

With HERE Navigation, the Lotus ELETRE’s navigation experience can be updated over-the-air (OTA), ensuring that drivers have access to the very latest version.

Additionally, Lotus and ECARX are using the HERE Software Development Kit (SDK) to integrate HERE Navigation into the Lotus Hyper OS mobile application for drivers to have an end-to-end navigation experience, inside and outside the vehicle.  

The pure electric hyper-SUV as the first vehicle in Europe to offer EV Routing, EV Range Assistant and Predictive Routing through HERE Navigation.

The Lotus ELETRE will also utilise Predictive Routing that learns individual driving patterns, such as departure times, destinations and routes, to offer more personalised journeys.

Predictive Routing automatically offers alternative routes or departure times based on real-time traffic and road conditions.

ECARX is transforming vehicles into seamlessly integrated information, communications and transportation devices. The co-founders are Ziyu Shen and Eric Li (Li Shufu) who is also the foudcner and charimand of Zheijang geel Holding Group (Geely).

Geely holds an investment in Lotus, as well as Polestar and Volvo Cars.

Serino Angellotti, Senior Chief Engineer at Lotus Tech Innovation Centre. “Lotus and HERE combine the full capabilities of a connected navigation system together with the unique Lotus digital user experience to deliver a world-class navigation solution. For its first electric SUV, Lotus would settle for nothing but the best, and with HERE Technologies on board, we offer our customers the best of both worlds while having the flexibility to design and manage the driving experience ourselves. We look forward to continuously updating our vehicles over-the-air, always providing our drivers with the freshest navigation experience.”

“We are proud that Lotus and ECARX have chosen HERE Navigation for the launch of their first electric high-performance SUV, the most technically advanced Lotus ever,” adds Fred Hessabi, Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer at HERE Technologies. “Lotus ELETRE is the first vehicle in Europe to have access to such an extensive range of features that will help make EV anxiety a thing of the past. By choosing HERE Navigation with EV and Predictive Routing as well as EV Range Assistant, Lotus is setting new standards in innovation when it comes to navigation.”

Ziyu Shen, Chairman and Chief Executive at ECARX, comments: “By working in close collaboration with Lotus from the earliest stage of the Lotus ELETRE’s development cycle, ECARX has delivered an advanced digital head unit that can support a range of applications designed to continuously improve the customer experience over time. The integration of HERE Navigation demonstrates the flexibility of the system to incorporate a range of driver services.” 

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