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The Automatic Transportation Company of
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The Automatic Transportation Company of Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is a Administrative divisions of New York (state), city in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York and county seat of Erie County, New York, Erie County. It lies in Western New York at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of ...
was a company that built an electric car
An electric car or electric vehicle (EV) is a passenger car, passenger automobile that is propelled by an electric motor, electric traction motor, using electrical energy as the primary source of propulsion. The term normally refers to a p ...
in 1921. The car was a 2-seater with a wheelbase of 65" (1650 mm), and a total length of 95" (2411 mm). The Automatic had a top speed of 18 mph (29 kmh), and sold for $1200.
Automatic promised that 60 miles travel could be achieved between charging, and that the car could be parked in a 4' x 8' space. Few of the car
A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are around one billio ...
s were sold.
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