Kenneth Smee drives his home-made electric car (1948)

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[maydaverave]

Very cool. What kind of batteries did he say it had?

 

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Don't think the report said. I'll guess just "floodies"- PbA. In `48 England still had gas rationing in effect from WW2. And his car looks "small" but this was a period that intro'ed lots of (fuel-efficient) "microcars"
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[Zoot Katz]

Eddie A. Lukov was killed by an electric car in Vancouver in 1904. He was ten years old.
There's no information to confirm it but I suspect it was an electric street car. Private automobiles were rare.

 

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Eddie A. Lukov was killed by an electric car in Vancouver in 1904. He was ten years old.
There's no information to confirm it but I suspect it was an electric street car. Private automobiles were rare.

`Spect yer right. Tram not auto. Eddie would have been far more likely to have been run down by wagon or carriage but that would have been unremarkable...
This Vancouver pic tagged 1906 (auto at far left):
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