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If your Easter Sunday needs some unnecessary livening up, why not do what i did and add some jeopardy by searching for a battery-powered egg?
This is what I was after.
Meet the Electric Egg.
Meet the Electric Egg.
Designed by industrial designer Paul Arzens for his personal use, the Electric Egg was a 400kg masterpiece of hand-beaten aluminium and plexiglass.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about it was that it was built in occupied Paris in 1942.
I've read things that suggest he drove around in it to annoy Nazis, but given it was built using (presumably) strategic materials I have my doubts that it was entirely unsanctioned.
I've read things that suggest he drove around in it to annoy Nazis, but given it was built using (presumably) strategic materials I have my doubts that it was entirely unsanctioned.
I'm not sure how theft-proof it was though. At just 90kg with the batteries removed, this thing was disturbingly easy to tow.
Probably just as well - the range was a meagre 67 miles.
Probably just as well - the range was a meagre 67 miles.
Post war Arzens' most notable work was designing locomotives. For many years the Arzen-styled CC7107 was the fastest electric locomotive in the world.
The locomotives are lovely, but it's the Electric Egg that captures my imagination. For some reason Arzens never built a second one.
Perhaps it's because the French consider one egg as un oeuf...
Perhaps it's because the French consider one egg as un oeuf...
PS: Fans of quirky small cars might like this thread from when I was just starting to write this sort of stuff. I've fixed the typo in the final post, but apologies for not remedying the lack of pretty pictures... https://twitter.com/Canocola/status/1084072578082369537?s=20