The Electric Car Produced in Greece Decades Before Elon Musk's Tesla

The Electric Car Produced in Greece Decades Before Elon Musk's Tesla

An advertising poster of the electric car Enfield 8000, shot at Greece’s Syros Island. Credit:  Skartsis, CC BY-SA 3.0/Wikipedia An electric car that was built on Greece’s island of Syros in the 1970s was one of the world’s first mass-produced electric cars. Decades before Elon Musk’s Tesla, the Enfield 8000, built at Neorio, Syros, was the brainchild of the UK-based Greek millionaire Giannis Goulandris. Goulandris had a business called Enfield …