Object Details
- Electric Vehicle Co.
- Description
- Dr. John Oscar Skinner, superintendent of the Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington, D.C., drove this runabout from 1906 to 1932. Physicians and affluent women in many cities bought electric cars because they were clean, quiet, comfortable, and easy to operate. Cities and larger towns had power grids that provided electricity to recharge car batteries. But electric cars were expensive, and electricity rates were high. Maintaining batteries was a complicated, hazardous task often left to a commercial garage. Low mileage between charges and the absence of electric power in rural areas further limited the market for electric cars as Americans drove longer distances.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Sewell M. Johnson
- 1904
- ID Number
- TR.310575
- catalog number
- 310575
- accession number
- 123348
- Object Name
- automobile
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 86 in x 54 in x 100 in; 218.44 cm x 137.16 cm x 254 cm
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Hartford
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Transportation, Road
- Automobiles
- America on the Move
- Transportation
- Road Transportation
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1325705
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ac-3fd5-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
