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Detroit Electric Vows to Debut Electric Sports Car This Year
Detroit Electric Holdings Ltd. says it will unveil an electric sports car next month at the Shanghai auto show and begin building the vehicle later this year.
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Detroit Electric Holdings Ltd. says it will unveil an electric sports car next month at the Shanghai auto show and begin building the vehicle later this year.
The Dutch company, which is opening its world headquarters in Detroit, offers no details about the car. It says it will begin assembling as many as 2,500 units per year in August at an undisclosed location.
A teaser photo of the EV suggests it will be based on the Lotus Elise two-seater a model that Tesla Motors Inc. electrified five years ago as its first EV, the Roadster.
Detroit Electric is a 106-year-old brand that sold some 13,000 electrics in the first third of the 20th century. Relaunched in 2008, the company is headed by Albert Lam, former CEO of Lotus Engineering.
Detroit Electric developed its own electric powertrain and tested it in an Elise in 2008. But plans to use the system later that year in a production EV were scrapped.
The company signed a deal a year later with Proton Holdings Bhd to co-produce electric sedans and hatchbacks in Malaysia, but the project apparently was shelved.
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