  Although equivalent to general relativity, teleparallel gravity is
conceptually speaking a completely different theory. In this theory, the
gravitational field is described by torsion, not by curvature. By working in
this context, a new model is proposed in which the four-derivative of a
canonical scalar field representing dark energy is nonminimally coupled to the
"vector torsion". This type of coupling is motivated by the fact that a scalar
field couples to torsion through its four-derivative, which is consistent with
local spacetime kinematics regulated by the de Sitter group $SO(1,4)$. It is
found that the current state of accelerated expansion of the Universe
corresponds to a late-time attractor that can be (i) a dark-energy-dominated de
Sitter solution ($\omega_{\phi}=-1$), (ii) a quintessence-type solution with
$\omega_{\phi}\geq-1$, or (iii) a phantom-type $\omega_{\phi}<-1$ dark energy.
