Powertrain: Single electric motor | 48-volt array of lead-acid batteries | rear-wheel-drive.1908 Columbia Electric Victoria Phaeton: by the numbers
It’s rolling, driving proof that there was a vibrant electric vehicle market over a century ago-although it’s more appropriate to call it an electric horseless carriage than a car. Built by the Columbia Automobile Company, it represents the final glory days for a marque that once was poised to become an automotive Goliath on par with General Motors, and instead ended its history as a bankrupt footnote just four years after this carriage rolled off the assembly line. This is a 1908 Columbia Electric Victoria Phaeton. The Columbia Automobile Company went bankrupt four years after it released the Victoria Phaeton.
