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Baby Star

1948

The Baby Star was a Japanese home-built electric microcar made by an engineer in Tokyo and reported in 1948, when he drove it through the city streets past a startled military policeman. The car was about one fifth the size of an ordinary automobile and was meant to seat two. A 400-watt electric motor of half a horsepower drove it for three hours at up to 25 mph before the…

Japan · 1948 · Electric, Microcar

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