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Rui Seabra (ruiseabra@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 15:52:04 JST Rui Seabra
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A UK car, though.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_8000
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  Enfield 8000
  
  The Enfield 8000 is a two-seater battery-electric city car, introduced in 1973 and developed in the United Kingdom by Isle of Wight company Enfield Automotive, owned by Greek millionaire Giannis Goulandris. The car was designed by a group of Greek and British engineers headed by Constantine Adraktas (Chairman and Managing Technical Director of Enfield) with John Ackroyd as project designer, who later went on to the Thrust 2 project. The prototypes and initial production were built at the Somerton Works in Northwood, near Cowes. Immediately after its introduction, production was moved to the Greek island of Syros. 120 cars were built in total, of which 65 were used by the Electricity Council and electricity boards in the south of England. Powered by an 8 bhp (6 kW) electric motor and lead-acid batteries, the car has a top speed of around 48 mph (77 km/h) and a range of around 40 miles (64 km). In Autocar's test in 1975 they found it had a usable range of 25 miles (40 km). It could accelerate from 0 to 10 mph (16 km/h) in 1.6 seconds, 20 mph (32 km/h) in 4.7 seconds and 30 mph (48 km/h) in 15.7 seconds. Brakes are by drums...
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  Miguel Arroz (arroz@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 04-May-2025 15:52:05 JST Miguel Arroz
  
  First fully electric car in Portugal, 1975. Top speed 64km/h, range from 40 to 90km, could charge on any regular 230V power socket.
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