Studebaker Electric

The Studebaker Electric was an automobile with electric drive, which the Brothers Manufacturing Company in South Bend (Indiana) produced. The battery-powered cars were offered 1902-1912.

Studebaker began automobile production in 1898, when Frederick Samuel Fish, then president of Studebaker, the owners meeting led them to invest $ 4,000 in the development of electrically powered cars. Even without the full support of the owner of this project provided a car. However, the company also began to manufacture bodies for electric-powered taxis, which the Pope Manufacturing Company produced.

The commercial production began only in 1902, the Company opted for battery-powered vehicles, because they were clean, easy to load and were worked in major cities well without gas stations.

There was the Studebaker Electric with different structures that were frequently derived from the former coach of the manufacturing company, for example, Stanhope, Victoria and Surrey. From 1904 there was a car with four seats.

Fish realized early on that Studebaker's future lay not in the electric car with all its restrictions, but in gasoline-powered vehicle. The experience of Studebaker were in the wheelwright and in vehicle sales, not so much in engine. This led in 1904 to the founding of Studebaker - Garford. The collaboration worked well until Garford teed 1909/1910 chassis for the construction of their own automobiles and Studebaker looking for an affordable car came across the EMF Company in Detroit. EMF should make the entire automobile and Studebaker wanted to sell it on his carriage dealer.

Studebaker continued to produce electric vehicles, to John Studebaker, the father of Fish, 1909 aimed at the control of EMF and this 1910 actually reached.

1912 also saw John Studebaker, the cars would have in the future gasoline engines, and thus ended the small production of electric cars. The official announcement of the new parent Studebaker Corporation was:

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