On December 3, 1912, William E. Storms received U.S. Patent No. D43,329 on a Motor Vehicle Body:

The patent was assigned to the Colonial Electric Car Company. This was not just a paper patent, but an actual product on the market (see below). Today we think of electric cars as something new, but they were a reasonable competitor to gasoline powered cars until technological developments allowed the gasoline engine to win out. As often happens, further technological developments have changed that calculus, and electric cars are again competitive — at least for some purposes. Inventors and inventions continue to change the world around us.

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