Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout by Victor Appleton from Books In Motion.com

Here's another light-hearted adventure in this popular series of entertaining stories about Tom Swift and his latest inventions. This time it's an electric car. Tom is intent on building an electric car capable of beating all other electrics currently in production. But primarily, he has a personal goal and challenge. He wants to race his chief rival, Andy Foger, and beat him badly. Herein lies an exciting account of how automobile races were conducted in the early 1900s...