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Electric Taxi and battery changes
Fascinating this rapid change of batteries in the Eucort Taxi in Barcelona in 1943, as shown by this RTVE film. But they were not the first Spanish electric taxis between the civil war and postwar; and we also bring here two photos of a change of batteries back in 1906 - just as effective. ...
Eliica KAZ, an electric eight-wheeler
published in 2004:
KAZ means peace in Japanese, and the concept the Keio University offers for a future car is much more than a simply idea who future cars will be: the KAZ breaks all the known ideas and demostrate clearly that an electric car can be very exciting and quite more efficent than ...
Atlantic Electric Trucks 1912-1920
We found in Spain an original catalogue of the electric trucks from Atlantic (Atlantic Electric Vehicle Co, Newark, NJ 1912-1921). This catalogue is in Spanish with the stamp of the Spanish dealer, A.G. Gunnison from Barcelona. We are looking now for more informations about the Atlantic trucks sold ...
Electric Car Exceeds 100 km/h in 1899
This record reached in November 1899 by the Belgian Camille Jenatzy was held for three years, before it was broken by another ecological car, a steam car. The gasoline car still took many months until it could compete with the other propulsions. ...
30th birthday of Sinclair C5
The 30th birthday of the Sinclair C5, one of the most unusual vehicles ever to be built in Britain, is being celebrated by the National Motor Museum.
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Electric Sovel
Created by a banking consortium, the French society Sovel was one of the longest running businesses in the sector of electric vehicles with more than 60 years of production of vans and trucks for different uses, mainly distribution of goods in town and municipal services. It was created with ...
Egger-Lohner electric car 1898
Since the construction of the first sports car to bear the Porsche name, the company has been regarded as one of the leading sports car manufacturer. Yet the company’s history in fact dates back to a much earlier period. In 1898, Ferdinand Porsche presented the ‘Egger-Lohner electric vehicle, ...
Electric Shopper 1960
A 1960 “Electric Shopper” electric micro car owned by Roderick Wilde, Executive Director of the Historic Electric Vehicle Foundation, will be the first vehicle you see when you enter the California Automobile Museum’s (2200 Front Street, Sacramento) new exhibit titled: “It’s Electrifying! ...
Small American Vans for Delivery
This is a story about the smallest vans from América, speaking about companies such as Dertroit Industry Vehicle Company (DIVCO), Ward Motor Vehicles, Pasckage Car Corporation (Pak-Age-Car), Brockway and others, some of them with electric transmision.
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American Beauty: the electric car
The electric car has great future prospects. That’s what politicians predict in the hope that this propulsion concept could give new impetus to the stagnant economy. The proposals aren’t new at all; they even have their origin in the time when the car was in its early stages of development. If ...
