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manufactured by L'Energie Electro-Mécanique based at

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. In 1907, the company manufactured one of the first recorded

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s (the

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was earlier, as was the

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), it was a combination gas-electric vehicle that ran at 24 hp.

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History of Automobile 1900–09
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