Without "a", Paris is taken.
And so without "k", the people's car becomes an electric car.
The transformation of the Volkswagen brand into the Voltswagen in the United States is a marketing genius hoax.
What audacity!
Everyone believed it at a time when no one doubts that the electricity fairy will replace the gasoline engine and diesel in less than a generation.
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In 1937, Raoul Dufy greeted like any artist of his time this revolution with his monumental 600 m2 fresco installed in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.
A hymn to modernity, to science, to industry in which the electric car is forgotten, still invisible.
The cars are then backfiring… The artist of the electricity fairy did not lack imagination to greet this revolution.
We see Zeus, the brand new Le Bourget airport, a gigantic factory with a single little worker in blue at the bottom, and dozens of scientists who contributed to the progress of antiquity in the interwar period.
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