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Though Thomas Davenport was among the first to install an electric motor into a vehicle, an electric car in the conventional sense was not developed until 1890 or 1891, by William Morrison of Des Moines, Iowa. The vehicle was a six-passenger wagon capable of reaching a speed of 14 miles per hour.

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