The French electric scooter Paupe from 1941, two motors 0.5 HP, battery 24 V/90 A, autonomy 70 km, speed 40 km/h.

Roger Paupe from Lyon built electric scooters in answer to petrol rationing. These were constructed in the New Map factory, apparently based on an earlier design from perhaps the early 1930s.

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