In this video you will learn that An HMV electric car from the 80s was put up for auction It was created to fight the fuel crisis.
At the Bring a Trailer auction, an unusual electric vehicle from the little-known American company HMV is for sale - it is a small single-seater FreeWay tricycle with a 4 hp engine. and a 48-volt battery. Currently, only $100 is being offered for an electric car, but there is still almost a week left until the end of the auction.
The abbreviation in the company's name stands for High Mileage Vehicles ("Cars for great mileage"): the founder of the company, Dave Edmonson, bet on the extremely low fuel consumption of his tricycles against the background of the oil crisis of the late 1970s. FreeWay with 12 and 16 hp gasoline engines. used from 2.5 to 3.8 liters of gasoline per 60 miles, writes Carscoops.
The design of the FreeWay was as simple as possible, although it included a fully independent suspension and a variator as a transmission. The seller does not specify the range of the electric version of the tricycle.
In total, between 1979 and 1982, HMV was able to assemble and sell about 700 such cars: Edmonson's business was undermined by another drop in oil prices.
The copy put up for sale is called "project": the tricycle needs a number of restoration measures. Mileage is unknown, although the current owner is only the second. In addition to documents and historical photos, the seller adds two electric motors to the car itself.
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