A Brooklyn-born exotic car designer is working on a prototype of an electric "horseless carriage" for Central Park. Jason Wenig is basing his design on the 1909 Pierce-Arrow and Packard. The vehicle, which is expected to cost $450,000, would seat eight passengers and could include a sound system and seatbelts.
Wenig's Creative Workshop in Dania beach, Fla. was contracted by New Yorkers for Clean, Livable and Safe Streets. The group is hoping to get the horeless cariage on the streets of New York as part of a pilot program by early next year, hoping it could eventually replave horse-drawn carriages.
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