Riker Electric Vehicle Company of Brooklyn, N.Y. First Plug In Electric Car In 1898

In a Deep Sleep, an E.V. Ancestor Awaits a Jolt - NYTimes.com: "Despite being a pioneer of the plug-in car, the Riker Electric Vehicle Company of Brooklyn, N.Y. (and later, New Jersey), is barely remembered today, partly because it existed for only a very short time. Andrew Riker, the company’s founder and a pioneer in electric motor design when he was only a teenager, sold the company to Colonel Albert Pope, the bicycle and electric-car magnate of Hartford, Conn., for a reported — and quite remarkable if true — $2 million in 1901."