The checkered past of the EV is on display at an Arizona Route 66 boasting “the world’s largest collection of historically significant electric vehicles.”
The museum’s collection isn’t strong on the EV’s first coming, though there is a 1930 Detroit Electric, already an anachronism with delightful curved glass side windows, and the Custer Chair. The latter has nothing to do with the Little Big Horn, but was a kind of motorized tricycle wheelchair developed by Ohio-based aviation pioneer Luzern Custer and manufactured between 1919 and 1933.
The museum has a 1960 Electric Shopper micro car and a 1966 Autoette “Power Car.” The 700-pound Shopper was made by the Electric Car Company of Long Beach, California, founded in 1951. The car was cute as a button, and even sported miniature fins. The company also made light trucks, flatbeds, and even an eight-passenger personnel carrier for amusement parks and other uses. The Autoette Sales and Service Co.
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