Now electric cars plug in to the walls like cellphones. But
who came up with the idea. And how does the technology really works?
Before we rejoin for the future let take a quick look at the
past. You probably would be surprises I was to find out that electric cars
aren’t a 21st century invention. That is electric powered motors
came up pretty much a same time petroleum driven engines. Almost two centuries
ago in 1828 a Hungarian engineer named Anyos Jedlik invents the first prototype
of the electric motor and used it to powered small model cars. And he wasn’t
the only one with an interesting sort of technology. In 1834 black smith Thomas
Davenport created a similar device that could be driven engine short distances
on an electric trap. Beside ring any bells think street cars later on.
And over in the Netherlands university professor Sibrandus Stratingh
build a tiny electric car with non rechargeable battery. Now even know the idea
of a battery powered vehicle was to revolutionize people’s lives for the
better. Primary cell batteries that’s the easy one in. they need too many
batteries to run the motor for a long distance. It wasn’t until 1859 when
French physicist Gaston Planet invented the lead acid battery that change the
electric engine game for good.
Many countries began to producing electric three wheeled
cars until the us made a huge breakthrough. In 1891 they created the first
electric vehicle and get this it was a 6 passenger wagon that could go up to
14MPH. After that people were though. And the electric car market thrive. And
late 1890s electric powered taxies filled the street of London. And that time
electric cars has many advantages of the steam power and gas engines. They
didn’t vibrate they didn’t give up that awful burning gasoline smell we are familiar
with. And most importantly they didn’t require much effort to start. By the
early 1900s almost one third of cars in the us were electric powered. But that
wasn’t going to last long.
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