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About Andrew Lawrence Riker
Andrew Lawrence Riker was an early automobile designer known for helping the U.S. car industry to transition from electric to gas-powered car manufacturing. He began experimenting with electric vehicles in 1884. He formed the Riker Electric Motor Company in 1888 to make electric motors, and a year later formed the Riker Motor Vehicle Company in Elizabeth, New Jersey.. The company was absorbed by the Electric Vehicle Company in 1901.
Everything about Andrew Lawrence Riker →- Occupation
- inventor, car designer, racing automobile driver, engineer
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1868
- Died
- 1930