Sinclair C5 Sinclair C5 The Sinclair C5 is a small one-person battery electric velomobile, technically an "electrically assisted pedal cycle". It was the culmination of Sir Clive Sinclair's long-running interest in electric vehicles. Although widely described as an "electric car", Sinclair characterised it as a "vehicle, not a car". Sinclair had become one of the UK's best-known millionaires, and earned a knighthood, on the back of the highly successful Sinclair Research range of home computers in the early 1980s. He hoped to repeat his success in the electric vehicle market, which he saw as ripe for a new approach. The C5 emerged
Sinclair Executive consumption, creating issues with the reliability. The Executive Memory was launched in November 1973, with the same physical dimensions as the original, but with the ability to memorise subtotals from any number of chain calculations. There were at least 3 versions, including the black and white Type 1, and the Type 2 with a gold keyboard. The Executive Memory sold at the lower price of . Sinclair Executive The Sinclair Executive was the world's first "slimline" pocket calculator, and the first to be produced by Clive Sinclair's company Sinclair Radionics. Introduced in 1972, there were at least two different versions