Five Riders on an Electriquette (defintion in comments) 1915
The Electriquette was an electric vehicle with an exterior made of rattan (wicker). The vehicle was an early form of battery-powered motorized wheelchair or cart, and it utilized a motor manufactured by General Electric.
At the 1915 Panama–California Exposition in San Diego, California, the Electriquette could be rented for $1.00 per hour (equivalent to $31 in 2024). A variation of the vehicle was later manufactured for disabled veterans of World War I.
No original chairs are known to have survived, but in 2016, new chairs were designed and reintroduced to Balboa Park in San Diego.
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