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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 ...
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
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.
On September 7, 1986, an electric car wins the first race in the United States
This is a chronological index for the start year for motor vehicle brands (up to 1969). For manufacturers that went on to produce many models, it represents the start date of the whole brand; for the others, it usually represents the date of appearance of the main (perhaps only) model that was produced.
The Detroit Electric was an electric car produced by the Anderson Electric Car Company in Detroit, Michigan.The company built 13,000 electric cars from 1907 to 1939. [1]The marque was revived in 2008 by Albert Lam, former Group CEO of the Lotus Engineering Group and executive director of Lotus Cars of England. to produce modern all-electric cars by Detroit Electric Holding Ltd. of the Netherlands.
Morrison-Electricar was a British manufacturer of milk floats and other battery electric road vehicles (BERV). Their first vehicle was built for a bakery in 1933, and the company ceased to exist when it was finally sold to M & M Electric Vehicles of Atherstone in 1983.
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 ...