Charging an Electric Car circa ???

[MolaKule]

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[skyactiv]

Between 1900-1910 is my guess. I saw the Baker Electric YouTube video Jay Leno has.

 

[Trav]

They say fashion goes around. They were a failure then and they will be again. EV's are perfect for local mail and small delivery vehicles, but they need to leave people and the ICE cars alone. I see the UAW and Teamsters are getting their knickers in a twist.

 

[simple_gifts]

Interesting photo; some people can't give it a rest.

 

[loneryder]

Estimated range???

 

[demarpaint]

Delete

 

[Passport1]

That would be an EV I'd be proud to own/drive. Would it run 'till the end of the parade?

 

[Trav]

Estimated range???

About the same as a EV F150 pulling a trailer in the cold I figure.

 

[97prizm]

These were actually really popular with women as hand cranking a vehicle was difficult and could break your wrist if it kicked back.

 

[Torrid]

They say fashion goes around. They were a failure then and they will be again. EV's are perfect for local mail and small delivery vehicles, but they need to leave people and the ICE cars alone. I see the UAW and Teamsters are getting their knickers in a twist.

Thank you for the laugh, I needed that.

About the same as a EV F150 pulling a trailer in the cold I figure.

40 miles? Not bad!

 

[grisby]

Time to get my turn table out because here comes the Broken Records

 

[andrew_j]

Estimated range???

30-50 miles. Plenty for then….

We are 6x that now.

 

[VolvoZ]

Sweet ride. Do the headlights run on a fossil fuel?

 

[JeffKeryk]

I bet that was an expensive ride back then...

 

[Fla]

From back in the day when most homes didn't even have electricity!

 

[JeffKeryk]

From back in the day when most homes didn't even have electricity!

And zero gas stations. Roads made for horses.

 

[michaelluscher]

1909 Tesla supercharger station
The Peterson museum has some EV1 artifacts

A GM video on the history of the electric car, culminating in the (then new) EV1

 

[michaelluscher]

These were actually really popular with women as hand cranking a vehicle was difficult and could break your wrist if it kicked back.

They were marketed and popular with women of wealth
No cranking, fumes, noise, etc

The car you will eventually buy

 

[andrew_j]

The neat thing about once of those is they could sit for years and you simply pull battery and slide another in and have a working vehicle unlike ICE .

 

[PandaBear]

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1909 Tesla supercharger station
The Peterson museum has some EV1 artifacts

A GM video on the history of the electric car, culminating in the (then new) EV1

Oh I had that EV1 blade charger modified into a school project once. It was induction charging because back then people were afraid of being zapped by leaked high voltage or in the rain.

Let's just say nobody does induction charging anymore because it was super slow, like 20 hours to charge, and a lot of loss. We went the other extreme today with DC fast charging and liquid cooled charging cable, people can't charge fast enough.