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I would love to know the power capacity & range for these cars
Consider that the (in electric cars, obviously next-)most power hungry item on cars back then was the wind shield wiper motor. Modern cars easily put out 100kW, but then spend most of that in a thousand little ways. Back then, a 20W engine would be plenty.
From Wikipedia
Considering what roads were like at the time, and how far most people were from other things, 80 miles round-trip is plenty.
Heck, that's plenty nowadays for a lot of people.