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1909 Model 20 Runabout The Hupp Motor Car Company factory with a truck and three cars (1911) In 1909, Bobby Hupp co-founded Hupp Motor Car Company, with Charles Hastings, formerly of Oldsmobile, who put up the first US$8,500 toward manufacturing Hupp's car. [2] They were joined by investors J. Walter Drake, Joseph Drake, John Baker, and Edwin ...
1912 Hupp-Yeats Electric Coach. The Hupp-Yeats was an early American electric car manufactured in Detroit, Michigan from 1911 to 1916.The parent company was begun by Robert Craig Hupp, previously of the Hupp Motor Company as the R.C.H. Corporation through 1912, later becoming the Hupp-Yeats Electric Car Company.
The Tesla Model 3 surpassed the Nissan Leaf as the world's best selling plug-in electric car in history [208] Mar 2020: The Tesla Model 3 is the first electric car to sell more than 500,000 units since inception. [208] Tesla, Inc. becomes the first auto manufacturer to produce 1 million electric cars [224] Apr 2020
On September 7, 1986, an electric car wins the first race in the United States
The Electric Vehicle Company was founded September 27, 1897, as a holding company of battery-powered electric vehicle manufacturers acquired and assembled by Isaac Rice. [1] [2] In May 1897, Rice had acquired the Electric Carriage & Wagon Company (E.C.W.C.), a New York manufacturer of electric taxicabs.
Carl Fisher was born in Greensburg, Indiana, nine years after the end of the American Civil War, the son of Albert H. and Ida Graham Fisher.Apparently suffering from alcoholism, a problem which also plagued Carl later in life, his father left the family when he was a child.
The still-ongoing Watts Summer Festival was also born in the ashes of 1965, founded by the late Jacquette and others, showcasing visual art, music, crafts and more each summer in Will Rogers Park ...
The car used 30 batteries. [1] The 1904 Pope-Waverley Road Wagon was a smaller wagon model. It could seat 2 passengers with an open box at the rear for cargo and sold for US$850. The single electric motor was situated at the rear of the car and produced 3 hp (2.2 kW). The car used a 24-cell battery and could travel at 5 or 15 mph (8.0 or 24.1 ...