The Binghamton Electric was an American
automobile
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The year 1886 is regarde ...
manufactured only in 1920. An
electric car from
Binghamton, New York, the car was made probably as a
prototype, by the Binghamton Electric Truck Co., located at 250, Main street. Not more than two or three two-passenger
coupe
A coupe or coupé (, ) is a passenger car with a sloping or truncated rear roofline and two doors.
The term ''coupé'' was first applied to horse-drawn carriages for two passengers without rear-facing seats. It comes from the French past parti ...
s were produced. The company built a small number of electric trucks in 1920–1921.
See also
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List of defunct United States automobile manufacturers
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History of the electric vehicle
Practical electric vehicles appeared during the 1890s. An electric vehicle held the vehicular land speed record until around 1900. In the 20th century, the high cost, low top speed, and short-range of battery electric vehicles, compared to int ...
Other Early Electric Vehicles
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American Electric
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Argo Electric
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Babcock Electric Carriage Company
The Babcock Electric Carriage Company was an early 20th-century United States automobile company, making electric vehicles under the Babcock brand from 1906 through 1912.
The company was founded by and named after Francis A Babcock and based ...
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Berwick
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Buffalo Electric
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Century
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Columbia Automobile Company
Columbia was an American brand of automobiles produced by a group of companies in the United States. They included the Pope Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut, the Electric Vehicle Company, and an entity of brief existence in 1899, ...
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Dayton Electric
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Detroit Electric
The Detroit Electric was an electric car produced by the Anderson Electric Car Company in Detroit, Michigan. The company built 13,000 electric cars from 1907 to 1939.
The marque was revived in 2008 by Albert Lam, former Group CEO of the Lotus En ...
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Grinnell
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Menominee
The Menominee (; mez, omǣqnomenēwak meaning ''"Menominee People"'', also spelled Menomini, derived from the Ojibwe language word for "Wild Rice People"; known as ''Mamaceqtaw'', "the people", in the Menominee language) are a federally recog ...
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Rauch and Lang
The Rauch & Lang Carriage Company was an American electric automobile manufactured in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1905 to 1920 and Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, from 1920-1932.
History
The Rauch & Lang Carriage Company was incorporated in 1884, by J ...
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Riker Electric
References
*David Burgess Wise, ''The New Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles''.
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Electric vehicles introduced in the 20th century
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Motor vehicle manufacturers based in New York (state)
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