112-year-old electric car Valued Usd 4.7 Billion

Posted by Bapak on Monday, August 29, 2011

Fri, 26/08/2011 15: 29 WIB

- -Current global automotive world are crazy about making electric powered cars. It turns out, it isn't this time just happen.

For electric cars have been around since the early 20th century. Electric car alerts in 1899 which was recently auctioned off this is one example.

The car was named Columbia Electric Landaulet is an electric car that was born in 1899, long before the Nissan LEAF electric car is the most popular currently late.

Columbia electric car Electric Landaulet jadul this course become rare collectibles. Therefore it is not surprising that need funding up to US $ 550 thousand or about USD $ 4.7 billion. Dozens of times more expensive than a Nissan LEAF.

Aged 112 years, Columbia Electric Landaulet still have excellent conditions even though of course there is no satellite navigation, radio or the usual smartphone applications embedded in modern cars.

This car is a car made by Columbia Automobile Company of Hartford based in Connecticut, United States. In 1902, the company has succeeded in creating 10 variants of electric cars and 3 variants of petrol-fuelled cars.

And until 1913, there have been 27 thousand electric cars and gasoline that was born from the manufacturer.

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