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First Sparks
Thomas Edison was a harsh critic of battery technology in his era, and he wasn’t wrong. The dominant line of lead-based batteries didn’t last very long and became a repeated expenditure rather than a one-time investment. The energy lost by those batteries over a short time (hours, not days) was also an issue. Edison did not object to the idea of battery storage, though, and set about developing a better battery. Here, he displays the battery technology under his car’s bonnet in 1913. Alamy
Proof of Concept
Many conceptions of an electric race car turned up at Cleveland’s Glenville Racetrack in 1903. Walter Baker’s electric “Torpedo Kid,” number 999, looked decades ahead of its competition. Baker had succeeded with a ball bearing company earlier, and like his European counterparts sought to make headlines with land-speed record attempts. One of Baker’s racers was clocked at over 100 mph (161 kph) before tragically crashing into a crowd of spectators at the AAA’s Staten Island speed trials of 1902. Creative Commons
Confronting the Fuel Crisis
CitiCar’s EV production total over eight years was the high watermark for North American–built EVs after WWII. It was a record that would stand well into the twenty-first century. Although it looked a bit like Paul Bunyan’s doorstop, CitiCar’s unassuming Sebring-Vanguard and its kin attracted well over 4,000 buyers. Getty
Enter Elon
The Tesla Model S was not only unconventional in being an electric car, but it was also constructed on a chassis built of cast aluminum components of a size far beyond what had been used by the auto industry before. The visionary bit, however, wasn’t in the construction so much as in the overall idea of an electric luxury sedan. Alamy
Publisher : Motorbooks (November 7, 2023)
Language : English
Hardcover : 176 pages
ISBN-10 : 0760378304
ISBN-13 : 978-0760378304
Item Weight : 1.94 pounds
Dimensions : 8.7 x 0.8 x 10.2 inches
