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Buck_Thorn t1_iyekfrs wrote

Baker Motor Vehicle Company made electric cars from 1899 to 1914. My great grandmother had one, and Jay Leno has one now.

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whothefuqisdan OP t1_iyevx5z wrote

That is really cool! This one was owned by Lillian Reeves. There is a lot of argument around the first electrical car, technically the first, even though it wasn’t practical was a Scottish inventor named Robert Davidson in 1839 who made an electric powered carriage.

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