Friday 27th July 1888

American inventor Philip W. Pratt demonstrated the first electric automobile in Boston, a tricycle powered by six Electrical Accumulator Company cells. It weighed 90 pounds (41 kilograms). Pratt’s e-trike was built for him by Fred M. Kimball of, naturally, the Fred M. Kimball Company. The vehicle’s 10 lead-acid cells pushed about 20 volts to a 0.5-horsepower DC motor. The whole setup weighed about 300 pounds. The driver sat above the battery assemblage.