Plans are now underway in Kingman, Arizona for the building of what is being described as the “world’s only stand-alone electric vehicle museum.”
The project will go up at 519 East Beale Street and will belong to the Historic Electric Vehicle Foundation.
Earlier this spring, members of the Kingman City Council voted to approve a deal selling the property in question to the HEVF for $925,000.
Founded in 2014, the HEVF specializes in what is called a collection of historically significant electric vehicles. That collection now has more than 125 vehicles some dating to the first decade of the last century.
The eclectic collection includes a 1960 Electric Shopper, and a Rolls Royce-themed golf cart once owned by entertainment legend Willie Nelson, as well as a Detroit Electric vehicle from 1930.
Upwards of 13,000 Detroit Electric vehicles were manufactured between 1907 and 1939 before the line was discontinued.
The museum will be built in a one-story, nearly 20,000-square-foot structure that was built in 1982 and is designated as a Class B structure.
The museum has previously been housed in a two-story building located at 208 N. 5th Street, a space that HEVF officials say they have long since outgrown.
July 28, 2025
By Garry Boulard
Vintage advertisement for Detroit Electric
