Article linked from the ABC: When German automaker Porsche was preparing to release its first electric vehicle (EV) in 2019, executives met with a roomful of historians to test a slogan idea: "The world's first electric Porsche."
From the end of the long table, there came a chuckling noise. Heads turned to stare.
"That won't work," said Guido Eickholz, the director of the archive of the German auto-parts manufacturer, Reutter. "It's not the first electric Porsche. There's been one done years ago and it's sitting in a factory in Melbourne."
How this car came to be the world's first electric Porsche — and end up in Melbourne — is a story about tinkering, racing, restoration, obsession, and the mostly forgotten history of early EVs.
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