{"id":19219,"date":"2022-04-05T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T13:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=19219"},"modified":"2022-04-05T09:04:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T13:04:00","slug":"1135498_electric-delorean-teased-all-ev-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=19219","title":{"rendered":"Electric DeLorean teased for August reveal, the first of an all-EV brand reviving a familiar name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DeLorean Motor Company on Monday confirmed an August 18 reveal date for its all-electric successor to the DeLorean DMC-12 sports car.<\/p>\n<p>The reveal will take place at the Awards Ramp at the Pebble Beach Concours D&#8217;Elegance, and the prototype vehicle will be displayed at the Pebble Beach Concept Lawn on August 21, DeLorean said in a press release. Along with the reveal, DeLorean will announce the name of its EV, which isn&#8217;t expected to carry the DMC-12 nomenclature.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s DeLorean Motor Company incorporated in Delaware on February 28 of this year, but aims to revive the name John DeLorean used to launch the DMC-12 in the late 1970s on new vehicles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper first_wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" name=\"tccimg_100832989_m\" title=\"DeLorean teaser\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"DeLorean teaser\" width=\"640\" height=\"324\" class=\"first_image lazy\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"518\" data-url=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/delorean-teaser_100832989_l.jpg\" data-src-h=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/hug\/delorean-teaser_100832989_h.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/delorean-teaser_100832989_l.jpg\" data-src-l=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/delorean-teaser_100832989_l.jpg\" data-src-m=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/delorean-teaser_100832989_m.jpg\" data-src-s=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/sml\/delorean-teaser_100832989_s.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>DeLorean teaser<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The company has said its new EV sports car <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorauthority.com\/news\/1135327_reimagined-electric-delorean-will-be-a-driver-s-car-not-a-time-capsule-execs-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will be a driver&#8217;s car, not a time capsule<\/a>\u2014and the first of what could be a full lineup of electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>A teaser image released with Monday&#8217;s announcement certainly indicates that. There isn&#8217;t a trace of DMC-12 styling to be found. However, a previous teaser hinted that the new DeLorean EV will retain the DMC-12&#8217;s signature Gullwing doors. DeLorean has also confirmed that Italdesign, which styled the DMC-12 will, be responsible for the design and some of the engineering of the DeLorean EV.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" name=\"tccimg_100769738_m\" title=\"1981 DeLorean DMC-12\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAD\/ACwAAAAAAQABAAACADs=\" alt=\"1981 DeLorean DMC-12\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"641\" data-url=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/1981-delorean-dmc-12_100769738_l.jpg\" data-src-h=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/hug\/1981-delorean-dmc-12_100769738_h.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/1981-delorean-dmc-12_100769738_l.jpg\" data-src-l=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/lrg\/1981-delorean-dmc-12_100769738_l.jpg\" data-src-m=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/med\/1981-delorean-dmc-12_100769738_m.jpg\" data-src-s=\"https:\/\/images.hgmsites.net\/sml\/1981-delorean-dmc-12_100769738_s.jpg\" class=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>1981 DeLorean DMC-12<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">This is an entirely different approach than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1131039_electric-delorean-time-machine-revival-now-a-possibility-with-replica-rule\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what was proposed in 2021<\/a>, when the revived DeLorean brand discussed building what were essentially DMC-12 replicas with electric powertrains, at low volume, taking advantage of new legislation eliminating red tape for replica builders.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">That was the product of a DMC-12 revival that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1078459_electric-delorean-dmc-12-better-than-the-original-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">started in 2012<\/a>, which included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greencarreports.com\/news\/1067795_great-scott-heres-how-the-2013-all-electric-delorean-drives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some intriguing footage<\/a> showing how an electric DeLorean would drive.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">With a braintrust behind the fortified company including people from Tesla and Karma, the new EV now promises to offer more than &#8220;Back to the Future&#8221; nostalgia. Will this be what DeLorean needs to relaunch?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DeLorean Motor Company on Monday confirmed an August 18 reveal date for its all-electric successor to the DeLorean DMC-12 sports car. The reveal will take place at the Awards Ramp at the Pebble Beach Concours D&#8217;Elegance, and the prototype vehicle will be displayed at the Pebble Beach Concept Lawn on August 21, DeLorean said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}