Video: The first electric vehicles
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
An electric car is a car driven by one or more electric motors powered by an autonomous power source (batteries, fuel cells, etc.), and not by an internal combustion engine. The electric vehicle should be distinguished from vehicles with an internal combustion engine and electric transmission, as well as from trolleybuses and trams.
The electric car appeared before the internal combustion engine. The first electric car in the form of a cart with an electric motor was created in 1841.
Electric cars, produced in 1880, gained a lot of popularity in the following decades.
The disadvantage of the first models was the high price. Moreover, the maximum speed did not exceed 20 miles per hour. But wealthy car enthusiasts appreciated their significant advantages: ease of operation, instant engine start, noiselessness and lack of smell, unlike gasoline counterparts.
Early electric car in charge, 1900.
“Electricity is a thing. No buzzing, no hard-to-move levers, safe, not smelly like gasoline and no noise,”- Thomas Edison.
Thomas Edison poses with his first electric car - Edison Baker, 1895.
Men ride an electric car developed by the German company Siemens & Halske outside Berlin, Germany, 1882.
Columbia electric car, 1899.
Roger Wallace in his electric car, 1899.
Camille Jenatzi drives a self-developed electric car near Paris, France. He became the first person to exceed the coveted speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour (62 mph) by car, 1899.
Edison Company electric cars lined up in Manhattan, New York, 1906.
An electric street sweeper cleans the road in Berlin, Germany, 1907.
Electric cars at a charging station, 1909.
Electric vehicle sales peaked in the early 1910s, when electrification of private homes increased. In the United States at this time, 38% of all cars were electric.
However, the popularity of electric vehicles has declined. A number of factors contributed to this: the expansion of road infrastructure, the discovery of oil fields and the development of petroleum products, the invention of the electric starter and muffler. Thus, gasoline cars have become a more affordable and practical means of transportation.
An advertisement for an electric car, 1910.
"Electricity owners can now install their own charger in their stable."
Charging kit for an electric car in a garage in Cleveland, Ohio, 1910.
A lady uses a device to charge her Columbia Mark 68 Victoria electric car, 1912.
A Detroit Electric car on the road between Seattle and Mount Rainier, Washington, 1920.
La Jamais Contente is the first car to reach over 100 km / h. It is an electric vehicle with a light-alloy pseudo-streamlined body.
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