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Recharging a Citicar at Stanford, 1976

A very small two-seater electric car is plugged in at a curbside charging station, with gardens in the background. A woman is standing behind the car, looking at the camera.

Collection of Charlie Beesley

A Sebring-Vanguard Citicar recharging at a power station near the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, Cal. With nearly 4,500 models built, the Citicar was the most successful electric car of the 1970s and 1980s, although it went through dozens of small variants and changes because of new road safety laws.