Citicar

The wedge-shaped CitiCar was America's answer to the 1970s fuel crisis, built by Sebring-Vanguard in Sebring, Florida, from 1974 to 1977. Counting the later Comuta-Car versions built by a successor company, 4,444 were produced, a record for electric cars from an American maker since 1945 that stood until the Tesla era. It was slow, with a top speed of about 30 to 50 mph and a range of up to 40 miles, and it looked like a doorstop. That is the point: it showed there was a real market for a cheap electric commuter, and how fragile that market was when the company behind it could not last.