Production chronology1898
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DarracqElectric Triplette Record Tricycle
Production1898
Recorded originFrance
ClassHistoric passenger, commercial and competition automobile
The electric machine nicknamed the 'triplette infernale' was a special competition/record tricycle, not a passenger model derived from the 1896 coupé. Contemporary coverage records municipal trials and a 4 June 1898 flying kilometre in 58.8 seconds, equivalent to 61.2 km/h, while another reported result reached 64.8 km/h. The higher published figure is retained as reported performance; battery, motor, chassis dimensions and build count beyond the single documented machine remain unresolved.
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How this is measured → This record contains useful sourced evidence, but it does not yet meet the reference-ready standard. Still needed: attributed imagery. Fields we cannot source stay empty rather than guessed.