Electric Vehicle Company was a US automobile holding company and manufacturer.

The Electric Vehicle Company was founded as a holding company of battery-powered electric automobile manufacturers. It was taken over in 1899 by William C. Whitney and P. A. B. Widener's "Lead Cab Trust." They intended it to be a stock-jobbing operation and began a campaign to acquire other electric car manufacturers. William Collins Whitney (July 5, 1841 - February 2, 1904) was an American political leader and financier. ...

The trust collapsed in 1900 amid scandal surrounding the poor performance of their vehicles.

After the collapse of the trust, Electric Vehicle became a manufacturer in its own right, but it's chief asset was the holding of the Seldon Patent. George B. Selden, born September 14, 1846 in Clarkson, New York, died January 17, 1922 in Rochester, New York, was a lawyer and inventor who was granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. ...

References

James J. Flink, The Automobile Age (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988).