The Route 66 Electric Vehicle Museum occupies part of the Powerhouse in Kingman, the 1907 power plant on Andy Devine Avenue that also houses the Arizona Route 66 Museum, and it is given over entirely to electric vehicles. The Historic Electric Vehicle Foundation brought a display of electric vehicles to the Route 66 International Festival in August 2014, and the city kept it as a permanent museum; it has been billed since as the first museum anywhere devoted solely to electric vehicles. At opening the oldest piece was a 1909 electric baggage tug owned by the foundation's archivist, one of only two known to exist, and the newest a Tesla Model S. The opening lineup also included White Zombie, a street-legal electric drag car brought from Portland, Oregon; an electric street rod built in 1995 by Wilde Evolutions of Jerome, Arizona, and billed as the world's first; a 1930 Detroit Electric; and several electric micro cars built in California between the 1940s and the 1960s.
The idea came from the foundation's executive director, Roderick Wilde, as a way to support Route 66 becoming an electric highway, and the Clio puts the collection at 29 vehicles.
Later additions, by CleanTechnica's 2026 account, include the Buckeye Bullet 2.5 land-speed car and a custom electric golf cart that once belonged to Willie Nelson. The Powerhouse itself once supplied electricity to Kingman and the surrounding mines and was listed on the National Register in 1986.
Getting there
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