VUES, the Výzkumný ústav elektrických strojů točivých in Brno, was a research institute for rotating electrical machines. In 1968 it began developing an electric passenger car in cooperation with the department of combustion engines and motor vehicles at the Brno technical university. The work resulted in two vehicles, the EMA and the EMA 1, whose name stood for electric city automobile. The first working prototype was completed in 1969 and…