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Joe Jacobs' Electric Car

A Photograph of Joe Jacobs in an electric car he personally built for transportation. It came in handy during the gas rationing of WWII
A Photograph of Joe Jacobs in an electric car he personally built for transportation. It came in handy during the gas rationing of WWII

Special thanks to Mr. Phil Wilson for finding and sending us this picture of Joe Jacobs from the March 1944 issue of Mechanix Illustrated. Joe is pictured here driving an electric car of his own design to work. As the caption says the car was capable of a top speed of only 15 mph, but it had a range of 100 miles on a full charge.

The pages sent also contain pictures of period wartime technology and a do-it-yourself guide to a homemade anemometer. Here are the rest of the pages .

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