Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The AMC Amitron was an experimental electric subcompact car built in 1967 by American Motors Corporation (AMC) and Gulton Industries.It included many advanced features, including regenerative braking and advanced battery designs, to provide a 150-mile (240 km) range on a single charge.
(Note – This is a compilation of CitiCar factory changes from 1974 to 1977; with some Comuta-Car information added. The information is gisted from the owners and service manuals, and the CitiCar Roster.) Prior to car #1501, CitiCars left the factory as 36 volt models; most had a 2.5 hp Baldor motor, but a few had the 3.5 hp GE motor.
The 1990 GM Impact electric concept car. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the automobile industry saw little progress in electric car development; over 80 percent of vehicles produced in the United States featured V8 engines. [7] [11] But shifts in federal and state regulations began to influence this.
The 1970s weren't a decade for subtlety. Like the fashion and music of the era, cars were often bold, brash and unapologetically stylish, designed to command attention and dominate the road. This ...
Since 2010, combined sales of all-electric cars and utility vans achieved 1 million units delivered globally in September 2016, [1] 4.8 million electric cars in use at the end of 2019, [2] and cumulative sales of light-duty plug-in electric cars reached the 10 million unit milestone by the end of 2020. [3]
The 1970s weren’t just about disco and bell-bottoms. It was a golden era for cars, particularly luxury cars, machines that didn’t just get you from point A to point B but announced your ...
The car's development was extremely informal, and the cost for prototyping materials was estimated to only have been US$2000. [2] According to the Bradley newsletter the first production GT was delivered in September 1970. [1] The car was available in kit form in different levels of completeness, or as an assembled vehicle.
Just about any car your purchase -- no matter how flashy, how expensive, how cool -- begin to depreciate in value the second you roll them off the lot. The average car will decrease in monetary ...