The Bailey car company offerings were varied in 1912-1916

 Above is the 1915 Electric Commercial Coupe

 Above the 1914 Touring Coupe

 Mighty damn steampunk! This is the 1912 Electric Victoria Phaeton that is now in the Frick Automobile Museum. The running board was designed with flowing lines with no corners. Electric headlights are used.

 1913 Bailey Victorian with Bailey and his sister out for a Sunday drive at Point Shore, Amesbury

It's a 2000 dollar car in 1909, and didn't substantially change design from 1909 to 1912.
all from http://www.cardesign.ru/

To see much more about the Bailey cars and carriages (renowned for quality) http://www.amesburycity.com/baileyhistory.htm

Thomas Edison, there is only one logical car for him, an electric

images from http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/06/20/edison-west-orange-1902/

The first 4 wheel drive... was a Porsche. It was also the first hybrid. It was over 110 years ago as well

Jacob Lohner & Co in Vienna, Austria produced electric cars from 1898 to 1906.
Ferdinand Porsche, one of Lohner´s employees developed a drive system based on fitting an electric motor to each front wheel without transmissions (hub mounted).
Vehicles of this type were known as Lohner-Porsches

Lohner produced a number of hybrid petrol- electric cars. That is, with a gasoline US engine driving a generator to produce the electricity to drive the electric motors.

While the Lohner-Porsche technology was reliable, it was not competitive with conventional petrol-engined cars. Production costs where higher.
Production of Hybrid cars seized in 1906 although Lohner produced Lohner-Stoll trolley buses for several years on.


Above is a recreation, and is named "Semper Vivus" and is currently on display at the Porshe museum in Stuttgart http://www.porsche.com/usa/aboutporsche/pressreleases/pcna/?lang=none&pool=international-de&id=2011-04-26 between May 10 2011 and June 13 2011

Here below is a picture of a racing version of the front wheel driven, petrol-electric Lohner "Porsche". This vehicle was entered in the 1900 "Semmering" race and is driven by Dr. Porsche himself.

read more about it http://www.marque1.com/marque1/2011/03/yes-its-a-porsche-the-worlds-first-hybrid-car.html