1975 Citicar

edited by David Barth, 10 January 2009.
Courtesy The Forney Museum of Transportation at 4303 Brighton Blvd., Denver, Colorado.
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Photos were taken in February 2009.

The Citicar was produced between 1974 and 1983 by a U.S. company called Sebring Vanguard, based in Florida.

The Citicar, a small electric vehicle whose design was later purchased by Commuter Vehicles, Inc., and renamed the Comuta-Car, was first produced in Florida in 1974 by a company called Sebring Vanguard because of the mid-1970s fuel crisis.

The Citicar was a tiny golf cart sized car that could go at a top speed of about 39MPH, had no extra features such as locking doors or air conditioning. The car used lead-acid batteries. Production continued until 1983, and at 2,500 produced, as of 2009, it still held the record for most road-legal electric cars made in automobile history.

The Citicar came in three models.

• Coupe
  The Coupe was the smallest of the three, had a diagonal front, a roof parallel to the road, and a back with a 90 degree angle to the road.
• Hatchback
  The second smallest model, Hatchback, was the same as the coupe, except it had a slightly larger wheelbase and a back that sloped. This gave the two passengers a little more room while riding in the car.
• Citivan
  The largest of the three was called the Citivan, or Comuta Van, which still held two passengers, but also had room for storage. It was the only model with a trunk.

All of the vehicles can run for up to 40 miles (64 km) per charge.

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