Moretti Elettrovettura

The Moretti Elettrovettura was an early electric passenger vehicle that Moretti built when fuel shortages in the Second World War called for alternatives to petrol, according to the carrozzieri-italiani.com listing. The page describes a small minivan able to seat up to seven passengers, built for small-scale public transport in towns. It followed the Elettrocarro, an electric truck of 30 quintals, about 3,000 kilograms, which Moretti made for commercial use; the company then used the same electric motor technology to create the Elettrovettura as a public transport vehicle. The page says production was limited and that no surviving examples are known today, which makes the car extremely rare, and calls it an early attempt at electric propulsion in the automotive industry. Its specification table dates it to 1944, a figure the prose does not repeat.