"Why don't you just put an electric motor in it?" my daughters suggested. They didn't know this but, back in 1964, before OBie was built, a couple of Austin Mini Countrymans, along with some other vehicles, were converted to electric as a high-profile PR exercise for the Electricity Council and the South Western Electricity Board (SWEB) in the UK. One of the cars still survives to this day: the Tweed Grey, all-steel Traveller, DAE 137C. It was converted in Manchester by Associated Electrical Industries (AEI), then one of the UK's biggest electrical engineering companies.
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