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Aussie sports EV to be announced?
Sports car marque resurrected via EV sportsterIs iconic Australian brand Zeta set to return to local roads under battery power?
Absent from the production car market for around 40 years, the brand has been tipped to announce plans to build a two-seat open sports car motivated by a pure electric drivetrain.
If successful, Zeta will return to its Adelaide roots and is rumoured to be preparing to tap significant unsold stocks of Australia's first battery-electric passenger car, to build its rival for Tesla's Roadster.
The new model, expected to be marketed under the name Zeta Heartburn, will feature the motive components of a Japanese-built electric microcar. The rear-drive two-seater could feature an Ariel-like spaceframe chassis. Insiders say its lithium-ion battery bank will be fashioned from recycled smartphone batteries and will form the shape of individually custom-made bucket seats.
Performance is claimed to be electrifying.
Company spokesperson, April Ingannare, refused to confirm Zeta's plans when motoring.com.au contacted the company this morning.
"It's much too early to confirm our return to the Australian marketplace," she said. "Outrageous claims related to electric vehicles are nothing new; I'm not about to add to that phenomenon."
It's believed that Zeta has tapped nascent Green Car Innovation Fund monies and a workforce from the federal government's failed submarine construction bid.
Sources within the federal Department of Technology, Innovation and Obfuscation told motoring.com.au that an announcement regarding the EV sports car plans would be made early this afternoon.
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