Vintage
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With the backing of utility companies and some leading engineers involved, the 1960 Henney Kilowatt could have been a turning point for electric cars.
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110-year-old electric cars sold at auction as collectors start to appreciate them
Two early electric cars recently sold at auction in the U.K.
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How big is a new Mini? Big enough to fit the old one inside
A modern Mini Countryman isn't very mini at all.
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Automobile Driving Museum show offers electric-car history retrospective
The Automobile Driving Museum is exhibiting electric cars from the past five decades.
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Electric Ferrari, Magnum, P.I. style
A 1978 Ferrari 308 GTS gets converted to electric power.
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BMW i3 wasn't German maker's first innovative electric car
The BMW E1 electric car was introduced at the 1991 Frankfurt Motor Show.
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An 1896 Armstrong phaeton could be the world's first hybrid car.
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The Solar Powered Electric Car From Back In 1960 (Video)
Dr. Charles Alexander Escoffery converted a 1912 Baker electric car to run on solar power.
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Urba Centurion: Building Your Own 128-MPG 1970s Diesel Sports Car
The Urba Centurion is a 1970s kit car that can still be built today.
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Electric Car Drivers: Be Thankful You Didn't Recharge In 1900!
Early electric-car drivers faced the same infrastructure issues as their modern counterparts.
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Tiny 40-Year-Old Electric Car Now As Fast As Tesla Roadster
A 1975 Enfield electric car morphs into a drag racer.
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More Olympics Green Cars: Soviet Hydrogen-Gasoline Minibuses Of 1980
The Soviet Union deployed hydrogen-gasoline prototype vehicles at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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A Volkswagen hybrid prototype resurfaces after more than 30 years in obscurity.
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BMW Releases New Video On First Electric Car: 1972 BMW 1602e
The BMW 1602e was the brand's first foray into electric cars.
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Mercedes-Benz Touts Its Hybrid History From Way Back In 1906
Have you noticed how many automakers seem to have a hybrid or electric vehicle somewhere in their history files? If one were being cynical, you might think the long-forgotten knowledge has been retrieved to prove the manufacturer has always been progressive and innovative. Mercedes-Benz is the...
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First-Ever Porsche Turns Out To Be An Electric Car
"Egger-Lohner electric vehicle, C.2 Phaeton model," or P1, was the first car designed by Ferdinand Porsche.
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Opel P1 376-MPG Record-Holder Still For Sale, At $425,000
The 1959 Opel P1 set a record of 376 mpg in a test at an Illinois airfield in 1973.
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Electric Cars Are Fast: First-Ever U.S. Speeding Ticket
Speeding is big business. There's no money to be made from it as an individual of course, unless you subscribe to the theory "time is money". But the U.S. Census Bureau estimates 100,000 Americans are ticketed for speeding every day, at an average cost of $150 per ticket--$5.5 billion a year in...
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You might think high gasoline prices are a problem now, but at least it's relatively easy to get hold of. The same couldn't be said in Japan after the end of World War II, when the country's gasoline supplies were limited under Allied occupation. Transport was still vital, which led Nissan and Prince Motor, formerly aircraft builders Tachikawa Airplane, to build the Tama EV. The Tama EV stretches Nissan's electric vehicle history way past the first Leaf prototypes and the current 2013 Nissan Leaf--and it's fascinating to see some of the innovations introduced on the car, at a time when...
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Electric Or Gasoline? Vintage Woods Automobile Could Do Either, If Required
The turn of last century must have been a fascinating period to live in. Within the last quarter century or so, the car itself had been invented by Karl Benz. Virtually every automotive advancement changed the direction of the automobile, and--perhaps more significantly than anything else--nobody...
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Funky Friday: Flux Capacitor Charges Up Historic Electric Drag Racing
Every Friday, those of us who work at GreenCarReports like to kick back a little with a story that, if you’ll forgive us, is more about indulging our fun side than it is educating you about green cars. In keeping with that tradition, we felt it time to combine two of our collective loves --...
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Vintage Electric Cars Benefit From New Electric Car Sales Too
If you’re in the market for an electric car, the chances are you’ve resigned yourself to the fact that you’re going to need to spend upwards of $30,000 in order to get a modern, convenient electric car. If that’s too much, you can always go second hand with any number of...
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Vintage Electric Car Gets New Life: As Street-Legal Tesla-Beater
Forty years ago, in the midst of fuel crisis after fuel crisis, automakers large and small around the world came up with concept and limited-run electric cars that would, it was hoped, revolutionize city commuting. They didn’t. Powered by several thousand pounds of lead acid batteries, fitted...
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Converting A Car To Electric? How About A ’39 Pontiac Silver Streak?
For as long as electric cars have existed, enterprising individuals around the U.S. have sought to convert gasoline cars to electric power. Over the years, we’ve seen everything from classic British sportscars through to SUVs and pickup trucks converted to run on electric power, with...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield