3. NADER NIKS
In 1965, Ralph Nader testified before a US Senate committee that electric cars were viable - General Electric could produce a car that would go 200 miles on a charge at up to 80mph, but that GE was in cahoots with the auto and oil industries to hide this technology. The GE Delta experimental electric car was ugly, but could achieve 55mph and had 40 miles of range using nickel-iron batteries.
4. TIN TIME
In 1974, Sebring in Florida made a car called Citicar with two doors, two seats, a 2.5-horsepower DC motor from General Electric, and 36 volts worth of lead-acid batteries. It had a top speed of about 25mph and was really just a glorified golf cart, only uglier.
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IN PICS | Five of the wackiest electric cars ever made
Some of them date all the way back to 1894
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1. LITTLE BIRD
The half-car/half-bike introduced in 1999 under the name Corbin Sparrow by Mike Corbin, who made his fame and fortune as a motorcycle-seat manufacturer, could do 70mph tops, and had a range of about 40 miles.
2. QUITE BATTY
Electrobat! Is that not a great name? It belongs to the first commercially viable electric vehicle adapted by Philadelphians Pedro Salom and Henry G. Morris from technology derived from battery-electric street cars in 1894. It was slow and heavy but beat the gasoline cars of the time in a few sprint races.
Image: Wikipedia Commons/Wikidata
Image: Wikipedia Commons/Wikidata
3. NADER NIKS
In 1965, Ralph Nader testified before a US Senate committee that electric cars were viable - General Electric could produce a car that would go 200 miles on a charge at up to 80mph, but that GE was in cahoots with the auto and oil industries to hide this technology. The GE Delta experimental electric car was ugly, but could achieve 55mph and had 40 miles of range using nickel-iron batteries.
4. TIN TIME
In 1974, Sebring in Florida made a car called Citicar with two doors, two seats, a 2.5-horsepower DC motor from General Electric, and 36 volts worth of lead-acid batteries. It had a top speed of about 25mph and was really just a glorified golf cart, only uglier.
Image: Wikipedia Commons/Wikidata
Image: Wikipedia Commons/Wikidata
5. NEVER SATISFIED
In 1899, Belgian Camille Jenatzy created the torpedo-shaped La Jamais Contente ("the Never Satisfied"), an electric car which was the first to break the 100km/h and 60mph barriers.
• Source: Car and Driver website
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