★ Featured Exhibit ★
Catalog record
12

Sinclair C5

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Sinclair C5
12
Accession no.
12
Regret level
Weather-dependent
Collection color
Teal

★ Curator’s Notes ★

The 1985 Sinclair C5 was an electric recumbent vehicle with no roof, limited safety features, and the street presence of a misplaced bathtub. The Science Museum Group says 14,000 were produced, only 4,500 sold, and production stopped in less than a year. Personal mobility had arrived. It was just very low and getting rained on.nnSource: Science Museum Group — Sinclair C5nnImage: G-Man / Wikimedia Commons — public domain.

A tiny electric future positioned at bumper height.
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