Sunday, January 19, 2014

The Ohio Electric Car Company


From 1910 to 1918 Toledo, OH was the home of one of the earliest electric car companies in the United States. The Ohio Electric Car Company was established by Henry P. Dodge, Rathbun Fuller, Henry E. Marvin, James B. Bell, and Robert E. Lee (no, not that Robert E. Lee). The cars featured an all-from-the-stick drive controller known as the Dodge Controller, patented by Henry P. Dodge in 1909.

I didn't find much more information on The Ohio Car Company online. They made a claim to have thousands of satisfied customers, however they had only a few models and most of those were high-end. The Toledo address from the ad looks a little like a blast zone.

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