Cologne Electricity AG

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Kölner Electricitäts-AG (KEW)
legal form Corporation
founding 1898
resolution 1907
Seat Cologne , Germany
management Louis Welter
Branch Automobile manufacturer

The Kölner Electricitäts-AG (KEW) was a manufacturer of electric vehicles in Cologne .

history

In 1898, the Cologne electrical engineer Louis Welter received a license to replicate the French Kriéger electric cars . In the same year he founded the General Operating Company for Motor Vehicles (ABAM) for the construction and operation of electric cabs in Cologne.

This resulted in the Kölner Electricitäts-AG (KEW) (formerly Louis Welter & Co. ). The Ehrenfeld wagon factory P. Herbrand & Co. and the Accumulatorenwerke Gottfried Hagen from Cologne-Kalk were also involved . Overall, the production of the electric vehicles did not prove to be profitable, so that ABAM returned the license to Kriéger in 1906 and was dissolved in November 1907. In 1908 KEW also stopped production.

production

ABAM built power trucks with wheel hub electric motors . Their vehicles were used in many German cities, but also in Paris . The battery mobile cost ℳ 8,000.00 .

KEW mainly built commercial vehicles such as electric trucks, hotel buses and electric parcel trucks for the Reichspost . Some cars were also among them, such as landaulets or motorized cabs. These cars had their electric motors built into the frame. So they were more protected from vibrations than the wheel hub motors. The smaller wagons were built in the newly established factory in Cologne-Zollstock , while the heavy wagons were built in the wagon factory in Cologne-Ehrenfeld .

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