To All EAASV Members ¡ª A little bit from EV History to entertain you¡.
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From: Green Car Reports <newsletters@...>Date: July 14, 2024 at 9:06:24 AM PDT
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| | | | Our 34th President, Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, may have been one of the first. Long before Ike became perhaps the 20th century's most famous general, Eisenhower drove around in an early electric car that belonged to his in-laws.John Sheldon and Elvira Doud, Eisenhower's father- and mother-in-law, owned the car¡ªa 1914 Rauch & Lang electric car. It had been advertised as the first EV in America with a top-mounted worm drive, and could be driven from the front or the back seat. At its top speed of 13 mph, it could be driven up to 100 miles, according to donation material supplied with the car in 1953. Ike met their daughter Mamie in 1915 and asked her to marry him on Valentine's Day the next year. The two courted, then married on July 1, 1916. Ike drove the car often until it was donated to his museum. The Douds, a well-off couple who raised Mamie in Colorado, bought the car for $4,300 in 1914. That's the equivalent of more than $135,000 today¡ªfar more than, say, a?. The above photo shows:?
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