{"product_id":"historic-electric-vehicles-von-undefined","title":"Historic electric vehicles","description":"\u003cp\u003eSource: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Chapters: AMC Gremlin, AMC Pacer, History of the electric vehicle, Detroit Electric, Baker Motor Vehicle, Electrosport, Jeep DJ, ZiU-5, Henney Kilowatt, Amitron, Owen Magnetic, Columbia Automobile Company, Nissan R'nessa, History of electric two-wheel vehicles, Dingfelder, La Jamais Contente, Electron, Rauch and Lang, Madelvic Motor Carriage Company, Pope-Waverley, Electrobat, Woods Motor Vehicle, Babcock Electric Carriage Company, Grinnell, Argo Electric, NW Elektromobil, Sinclair Vehicles, Autoette, Menominee, Hupp-Yeats, Oppermann Automobiles, Svensk Elektrobil, Buffalo Electric Carriage, Buffalo Electric Vehicle Company, Bugatti Type 52, Peugeot VLV, American Electric, Century, Armstrong Electric, AEM, Nu-Klea Starlite, Anderson Electric, Berwick, Church-Field, Belmont, Bushbury Electric, Alexandra, American Juvenile Electric, Hewitt-Lindstrom, Automatic, Bouquet, Garcin \u0026amp; Schivre, Joel-Rosenthal, Binghamton Electric, Electric Motive Power, Turinelli \u0026amp; Pezza, Quinby, Monnard. Excerpt: The AMC Gremlin is a two-door subcompact car produced in the United States and Canada by the American Motors Corporation (AMC) between 1970 and 1978. AMC reduced its development and manufacturing costs by adapting a shortened Hornet platform with a Kammback-type tail. The manufacturer described the car as \"the first American-built import\". Introduced on April 1, 1970, and competing with the Chevrolet Vega, Ford Pinto, and imported cars including the VW Beetle and the Toyota Corona, the Gremlin became AMC's best-selling passenger car since the Rambler Classic. A total of 671,475 were built. AMC Gremlin logo on gas capA 2005 book described the Gremlin as a \"bold and innovative\" response to two imminent crises faced by the American automobile industry at the time of its design: reduced gasoline supplies, and an \"alarming increase\" in the sale of fuel-efficient imports. Ford and General Motors were to launch new subcompact cars for 1971, but AMC did not have the financial resources to compete with an entirely new design. Chief stylist Richard A. Teague's solution, which he said he sketched on an air sickness bag, was to truncate the tail of a Javelin. The resulting AMX-GT, first shown at the New York International Auto Show in April 1968, did not go into production. (The AMX name was used from 1968 to 1970 on a shortened, two-seat version of the Javelin.) 1971 Gremlin X, 1972 Pinto Runabout \u0026amp;1973 Vega GT photographed in 2010Instead, Bob Nixon, AMC's future Chief of Design, designed the new subcompact based on the manufacturer's Hornet model, a compact car. The design reduced the wheelbase from 108 to 96 inches (2,700 to 2,400 mm) and the overall length from 179 to 161 inches (4,500 to 4,100 mm), making the Gremlin two inches (50 mm) longer than the Volkswagen Beetle and shorter than the Ford Pinto and Chevrolet Vega. Capitalizing on AMC's advantage as a small car producer, the Gremlin was introduced on April 1, 1970, and was rated a good buy at an economical price. The \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781155670331\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAMC Gremlin, AMC Pacer, History of the electric vehicle, Detroit Electric, Baker Motor Vehicle, Electrosport, Jeep DJ, ZiU-5, Henney Kilowatt, Amitron, Owen Magnetic, Columbia Automobile Company, Nissan R'nessa\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781155670331","offer_id":48822396453189,"sku":"9781155670331","price":16.04,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/3f7b4ce3-de70-4cde-ba8b-0f162a386b90.jpg?v=1726374124","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/historic-electric-vehicles-von-undefined","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}