https://www.dallasnews.com/news/from-the-archives/2018/07/30/european-electric-elcar-zoomed-d-fw-1975-deemed-unsafe Drive to work for 7 cents? Italian electric car allowed Dallas motorist to do that in the 1970s 2018/07/30 Chelsea Watkins
[image https://dallasnews.imgix.net/1531862495-1975-ELCAR.jpg Friends told W.B. Frazier that his car, which could only muster speeds up to 28 mph and had a 55-mile range, looked like "the front end of a truck cut off from the back end." (File photo) video https://youtu.be/ug200n14Euk 1975 elcar zagoto milano ] Though electric cars have jumped in popularity in recent years, it's not a new phenomenon for people to want to get away from gas-fueled vehicles. The Italian Elcar was one of two mass-produced electrically powered cars sold as an alternative to family cars in 1975 that came to the U.S. as a response to the 1973 oil crisis. W.B. Frazier purchased his Model-1000 Elcar from an Arlington dealership in 1975 for $2,645. Though the car could only go 28 mph and had a 55-mile range, he drove from his home in Red Oak to work in Dallas. We can only hope that he didn't hit much traffic in his 30-mile commute. His friends said the car looked like the front end of a truck that was cut off from the back end. See the video below to see the car in action. And though it was a smaller and cheaper alternative to a regular car, it was deemed unsafe by the Consumer's Union later that year. Though finding a place to charge his car wasn't easy, Frazier enjoyed his electric car because it saved him gas money — he could get to work on a whole 7 cents. His wife, however, still preferred her air-conditioned Malibu [ice] ... [© dallasnews.com Dallas Morning News] ... https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/oil-embargo Oil Embargo, 1973–1974. During the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for the U.S. decision to re-supply the Israeli military and to gain leverage in the post-war peace negotiations ... https://static.businessinsider.com/image/4b3ac74f0000000000fa367a/image.jpg https://jalopnik.com/the-tiny-all-electric-elcar-had-a-55-mile-range-and-sou-1827998742 The Tiny All-Electric Elcar Had a 55 Mile Range ... 20180731 We've written plenty before about the wonderfully weird electric car market of the past ... a Texas man who purchased the Model-1000 Elcar in the 1970s ... https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--_b5tf9oG--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/bysjzoyd33nuho5rsksj.mp4 + https://cleantechnica.com/2018/07/24/texas-program-provides-2500-rebate-for-new-evs-and-plug-in-hybrids/ Texas Program Provides $2500 Rebate For New EVs And Plug-in ... July 24th, 2018 -1 hour ago The state of Texas Light-Duty Motor Vehicle Purchase or Lease Incentive Program is providing rebates to purchasers and leasers of new electric and plug-in ... For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
