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"While details and clear pictures of the recently announced sports-coupe from Detroit Electric are still in their infancy, another BEV-sports car is coming.  As a quick background for anyone who wasn&amp;#039;t around in the late 1930s, Detroit Electric built electric vehicles. Their highest sales were in the 1910s when internal combustion engines still a bit crank-y to start. Unfortunately for Detroit Electric, internal combustion improved, range became important, and there was that whole financial collapse in 1929. The brand shipped cars until 1942, but it was officially bankrupt by 1939.  In 2008, Albert Lamm resurrected the brand name. Lamm is the former Group CEO of the Lotus Engineering Group and Executive Director of Lotus Cars of England.  The newly revitalized electric-car maker is now hinting at their first model and the companies involvement in what they call Detroit 2.0. Details concerning the car itself are thin, but the new model is purported to be a limited-edition two-seat full-electric sports car with &amp;quot;impressive range,&amp;quot; and the typical claims concerning its uniqueness and styling. Detroit Electric also promises a host of new 100% electric models including two high performance models that will debut before the close of 2014.  If this sounds familiar to you, don&amp;#039;t feel alone. This is all a bit Tesla. Maybe literally\u2014the teaser image looks a whole lot like a Lotus Elise or Evora.  While this seems less surprising given Lamm&amp;#039;s former occupation, but given the relationship between Tesla&amp;#039;s first model (a BEV Lotus Elise) and Lamm&amp;#039;s future product initiative, could this be the new Detroit Tesla 2.0?  It is certainly too soon to tell, and teaser isn&amp;#039;t likely to help curtail the inevitable discussion of similarities. To be honest though, there are much worse initial designs to imitate. The Lotus twins are attractive cars, and also attractive is the bonded aluminum chassis that is, even years later, a good lightweight option to build a sportscar around. So we&amp;#039;re not complaining. It&amp;#039;s just a little &amp;quot;d\u00E9j vu all over again.&amp;quot;  The car, whatever it turns out to be, will debut next month in Detroit ahead of its official reveal at the Shanghai Auto Show. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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