The Carbon Motors E7 prototype, and one-time "patrol car of the future," sold Thursday to an online buyer at an Indiana auction for $74,000.
Carbon Motors will auction its working prototype high-tech patrol car to help pay off creditors of the failed venture. Carbon Motors shut down its Connorsville, Ind., plant in May.
A year after the Obama administration denied Carbon Motors a loan to produce its specialty patrol car, the company has shut down the program and left its Indiana facility.
CONNERSVILLE, IN - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) won't provide $310 million in loans to Carbon Motors Corp. to produce the purpose-built E7 patrol car, the company announced.
CONNERSVILLE, IN - Carbon Motors Corp. has turned to President Obama's cabinet for help moving forward its stalled police cruiser concept more than two years after submitting a federal loan application.
ANAHEIM, CA - Carbon Motors' E7 recently made its debut to the nation's sheriffs at the National Sheriffs' Association (NSA) Conference and Exhibition in Anaheim, Calif.
CONNERSVILLE, IN - Carbon Motors announced it has surpassed 14,000 production slot reservations for the Carbon E7.
Increased comfort and convenience, improved vehicle ingress and egress, advanced technology, and improved officer safety mark the next generation of police cars.
CONNERSVILLE, IN - Carbon Motors Corporation announced it has completed the conceptual plans for the Carbon Campus at One Carbon Motors Drive in Connersville, Indiana.
WASHINGTON - Carbon Motors Corporation and BMW Group jointly announced a strategic partnership. BMW will supply Carbon Motors with advanced clean diesel engines, complete with cooling and exhaust gas systems, and automatic transmissions for the Carbon E7.
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