---
title: "Watch This Tesla-Lotus-Chevy Volt Electric Car Chimera Max Out a Dyno"
description: "Sasha Anis's mad creation puts out more torque than the dynamometer can handle."
date: "2017-04-05"
modified: "2017-04-05"
authors:
  - name: "Kyle Cheromcha"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/8996/watch-this-tesla-lotus-chevy-volt-electric-car-chimera-max-out-a-dyno"
categories:
  - "Car Tech"
  - "Electric Vehicles"
  - "News"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "battery"
  - "dyno"
  - "Electric Cars"
  - "Electric Vehicle"
  - "Evora"
  - "Tesla"
  - "Testing"
  - "Volt"
---

# Watch This Tesla-Lotus-Chevy Volt Electric Car Chimera Max Out a Dyno

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/2017/04/dyno-1.png>)
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Torque is cheap, as the saying goes. Wait, that's not right. But hey, it's close enough—at least, when you're testing a Frankenstein of an electric car featuring a Tesla Model S drive unit, a battery from a Chevy Volt and a hacked-up Lotus Evora body on a dyno. Founder of [OnPointDyno](<https://www.onpointdyno.com/>) and overall crazy Canadian Sasha Anis, who you might know from his [supercar=slaying Nissan 350Z](<https://frontstreet.media/2016/08/10/sasha-anis-is-chasing-legends-in-his-nissan-350z/>), has been working on his "Blue Lightning" project since late last year, and has finally reached a point where he could get some preliminary power numbers. The results? 440 horsepower at the wheels...and an astonishing 2,992 lb.-ft. of torque.

Now, one small caveat about that insane torque figure—electric cars are notoriously tricky to measure correctly on dynos that are designed to work with internal combustion engines. All that torque is instantly available (instead of building up through the revs, as in a gas- or diesel-powered car), and the resulting traction issues can make it hard to get an accurate reading. But in this case, the dyno setup is bolted to the rear axle, so the numbers are tough to dispute. It actually maxed out the dyno, which is only designed to read up to 2,950 lb.-ft. of torque.

At any rate, Blue Lightning should seriously fly when it's finally road-ready. In addition to his Facebook and YouTube updates, Anis also maintains a [fascinating build thread](<https://www.lotustalk.com/forums/f170/lotus-evora-tesla-ev-build-390674/>) over at LotusTalk.com, where he adds that they've only gained about 200 pounds of weight on the original Evora...while nearly doubling the power.

https://youtube.com/embed/fKCMyHic2fU

## Author
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.

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