Now This is an Electric Car!

[J. M. Stovall]

1947 Tama by Nissan. I would buy one of these in a heartbeat!

After the war, oil was scarce but electricity was plentiful, so for a period the government promoted the manufacture of electric vehicles. With this encouragement, the "Tama" was introduced. In performance tests conducted by the Commerce & Industry Ministry, it did better than its catalog specifications with a cruising range of 96.3 km and a top speed of 35.2 km/h.

 

[ScionPI2005]

That's a cool lookin' little car!

 

[StraightEight]

With a top speed of 22 mph, you might as well take a bicycle.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

With a top speed of 22 mph, you might as well take a bicycle.

Would work -perfectly- in Rush Hour LA traffic......never go faster then 15

 

[freebird]

It would be nice for short trips to town, 10 miles being the furthest I'd drive it.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

The thing is, it's completely comparable to the modern electric commuter cars that are popping up. Even the speed is regulated to 25 mph by DMV code in 48 states. I think only Oregon and California recently upped it to 35 mph for commuter electric vehicles. So while I and my three friends run into town for ice cream and a movie in retro style, you can sweat on your bike .

 

[StraightEight]

At least I'll have earned the ice cream.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

I think if people had to earn ice cream then Ben & Jerry would be selling copiers.

 

[ScionPI2005]

At least I'll have earned the ice cream.

Maybe we can find a "pedal car" version of the above shown car. [huh]

 

[Sefton]

In San Francisco most city streets have a 25mph limit so that car would be ideal there. I wish my Honda Hybrid looked like the Tama though...

 

[Absinthe_1900]

1947 Tama by Nissan. I would buy one of these in a heartbeat!

After the war, oil was scarce but electricity was plentiful, so for a period the government promoted the manufacture of electric vehicles. With this encouragement, the "Tama" was introduced. In performance tests conducted by the Commerce & Industry Ministry, it did better than its catalog specifications with a cruising range of 96.3 km and a top speed of 35.2 km/h.

You'd still have to watch the speed going through West U.

 

[Miss 1929]

It's so cute!

I want one. Perfect for the short trips around town. 22 miles per hour is fine for that.

 

[Boxerken]

The styling on it is great, i love suicide doors. With todays tecnology and that styling they would sell like hotcakes.

 

[Miss_Bella_Hell]

If it's reasonable to take a car somewhere who's top speed is 22 mph, it's probably just as reasonable to walk there. However, it's darn cute, which I think is the point.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Too dangerous to walk, Vespa or bicycle the three miles from my house to downtown. I need a protective shell. And the bus stops running around midnight so that won't work. That Tama looks just the ticket. 22 MPH is about the speed everyone drives on Main Street anyway.
It seems I've seen a picture of that before, when my brother and I were children and interested in weird vehicles, in a library book.

 

[Forgotten Man]

I'm too tall for that soap box! lol

Have a nice big roomy Plymouth thank you. American cars rule... well, they did once.

 

[GHT]

You might think that the current adverts on The Lounge are annoying, but I keep getting pop ups, and not just here, for a car call the MG Cyberster, It's an all electric sports car. Chances are someone somewhere knows that I have a seventy-five-year old MG in the garage. They have assumed that it must be about time it was changed. That same somebody doesn't realise that even if this old fart could get into the driver's seat it would take an engine hoist to get me out again.