Featured Flashback Friday: the Elcar

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  1. Team ChargePoint

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    Here's a fun historical EV fact for this Friday

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    This Italian electric car let people commute for 7 cents during the 1970s oil crisis, hitting speeds of a whopping 28 mph, with a 55-mile range.

    Dallas News shared more on the Elcar here.
     
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    i wonder what happen to the manufacturer?
     
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    Here's another one from the 70s that I remember seeing on the road, the CitiCar.
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    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    I think a poster here or at Gassavers/Fuelly was restoring one of those.
     
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    I think it's spelled wrong. Instead of starting with the letter c, wasn't it supposed to start with SH?

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    interestingly, when you google eclair, you get some amazing hits.
     
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    that too.
     
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