Sipani Montego

In a bid to reduce air pollution, the Chinese government, this year, is planning to scrap five million cars that are past their shelf lives. The number is big, but it is an effort to keep the pollution levels down.

In the world of cars anything that comes out of Detroit, Michigan is always considered to be from the womb of all that is motoring and the Detroit Electric SP:01 is no different. The original Detroit Electric produced around 13, 000 electric cars during the early part of the previous century but then quietly faded away. Now, thanks to the efforts of the former Group CEO of Lotus Engineering and current executive director of Lotus Cars, Albert Lam, the company has setup shop in the Motown’s historic Fisher building and will produce a range of three cars of which the all-electric SP:01 is the first.