The Riker was a veteran and brass era electric car founded in 1898 in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

In 1894 he built his first four-wheel car by putting a pair of Remington bicycles together with electric power added.

That year he also began building an electric racer which competed against gasoline cars at the 1896 Narragansett Park race in Rhode Island.

[1] Scientific American reported the Riker Electric Motor Company, of Brooklyn, N. Y., as the winner of the horseless carriage race, the prize being $900.

From that time a variety of electric vehicles bore the Riker name including runabouts, Victorias, surreys, hansom cabs and heavy trucks.