page_title: Enfield Automotive
section_title: Enfield 8000
hierarchical_section_title: Enfield Automotive / Models / Enfield 8000
caption_attribution_description: From the Electricity Council, Enfield Automotive and Constantine Adraktas archives. The Chairman of the Electricity Council and other EC Board members on the date of signing the contract for the E8000ECC
context_page_description: Enfield Automotive was an electric car manufacturer founded in the United Kingdom in the 1960s. Under the ownership of Greek millionaire Giannis Goulandris, production was moved to the Greek isle of Syros during the oil crisis of 1973, although the vehicles were, according to one report, sent back to be assembled on the Isle of Wight.
context_section_description: The Enfield 8000 (also known the E8000 ECC or "Electric City Car") was similar to the 465, but with an 8 bhp (6 kW) motor and aluminium body. 120 Enfield 8000s were built on Syros  in the mid-1970s, of which 65 were used by the Electricity Council and southern English electricity boards.
  The E8000ECC had passed all the necessary tests for production in the United Kingdom and was on its way to be produced in the United States of America. Then Governor of California Ronald Reagan sent a cargo plane to have three E8000ECCs moved to California in support of his Clean Air legislation.  However, the E8000ECC was never produced in the United States.  The unique aerodynamics of the E8000ECC were not based on traditional industry principles and ideas.  They were based on designs made by Konstantine Adraktas, the Chairman and Managing Technical Director of Enfield. The car was eventually produced in Greece after the company was incorporated into Neorion (also owned by Mr. Goulandris) and renamed Enfield-Neorion.
caption: The Chairman of the Electricity Council and other EC Board members on the date of signing the contract for the Enfield 8000
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