Excerpt from Automobile Engineering: A General Reference Work for Repair Men, Chauffeurs, and Owners; Covering the Construction, Care, and Repair of Pleasure Cars, Commercial Cars, and Motorcycles, With Especial Attention to Ignition, Starting, and Lighting Systems
The electric automobile was the natural and logical outgrowth of the storage-battery street car, which, in the early 90's, was looked upon as having a great future of commercial utility. That electric vehicles were being manufactured and marketed on as general a scale as the radical nature of the innovation would permit, as early as 1897.
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