Silent electric car for cities – archive
Silent electric car for cities – archive, 29 September 1971
Electric city cars could be in mass production and on the streets of Britain by 1973 if manufacturers and the Government gave a lead to their development, the Electricity Council said yesterday when it released details of the Enfield 8000, a vehicle capable of 40 mph and a range of 60 miles on one charge.
But both the council and Enfield, who have been given an order for 80 vehicles, admit that it is unlikely to boost the exploitation of electric cars unless the motor industry drops its obsession with the internal combustion engine.
In Britain and the United States, where Ford and General Motors have made prototype city cars, now shelved or awaiting further development, the situation facing the major manufacturers is, according to an Electricity Council official, one of “complete financial shakedown.”
Silent electric car for cities – archive, 29 September 1971
Electric city cars could be in mass production and on the streets of Britain by 1973 if manufacturers and the Government gave a lead to their development, the Electricity Council said yesterday when it released details of the Enfield 8000, a vehicle capable of 40 mph and a range of 60 miles on one charge.
But both the council and Enfield, who have been given an order for 80 vehicles, admit that it is unlikely to boost the exploitation of electric cars unless the motor industry drops its obsession with the internal combustion engine.
In Britain and the United States, where Ford and General Motors have made prototype city cars, now shelved or awaiting further development, the situation facing the major manufacturers is, according to an Electricity Council official, one of “complete financial shakedown.”
