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This was the first year that Studebaker was in the automobile business (they had been making wagons and carriages since 1852). John M. Studebaker, the venerable president of the company, decided on electricity to power his motor vehicles over the gasoline ones that 'stink to high heaven' in his words. The electric motor was rated at 40 volts and 24 amperes. Seeing that the 'smelly' gasoline auto would not go away anytime soon, John Studebaker finally gave in and Studebaker began the production of gasoline cars in 1904 in association wîth the Garford company of Elyria, OH. But thats another car, and another story...Source -
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