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During the 1960s, following its founding, Enfield Automotive developed an electric passenger vehicle. Previous to the model E8000ECC, Enfield developed a fiberglass and ABS plastic bodied electric passenger vehicle that was of unacceptable performance according to the Electricity Counsel.[1] Following that, Enfield developed the model E8000ECC and subsequently was relocated to the Greek Island of Syros.


[edit] Models
Main article: Enfield 8000

[edit] Enfield 8000
The Enfield 8000 was the predecessor to the E8000ECC. It was a 2 + 2 seater electric car with bucket seats in the front and bench seats in the back. The various versions of the E8000ECC were based on the Enfield's 8000 chasis, components and systems.


[edit] E8000ECC
Based on the Enfield 8000, the E8000ECC had passed all the necessary tests for production in the United Kingdom and was on its way to be produced in the United States of America. Then Governor of California Ronald Reagan sent a cargo plane to have three E8000ECCs moved to California in support of his Clean Air legislation.[citation needed] However, the E8000ECC was never produced in the United States. The unique aerodynamics of the E8000ECC were not based on traditional industry principles and ideas. They were based on designs made by Konstantine Adraktas the Chairman and Managing Technical Director of Enfield, who was a graduate of the Aerospace department at MIT[2] and the creator of the mathematical equation for the trajectory of the Apollo flights to the moon.[citation needed] The car was eventually produced in Greece after the company was acquired by Neorion.