Электромобили были проще по устройству , дешевле в эксплуатации и экологичнее.
Когда, наконец, наступит время, когда мы сможем ездить на подобных электромобилях и не
зависеть от перепадов цен на нефть?
Не надо изобретать ничего нового-надо вернуться назад, в наше будущее,
к тем шедеврам технологий 19-го века, которые были долгое время запрещены.
A woman uses a hand-cranked battery charger to charge her electric Columbia Mark 68 Victoria automobile, c.1912. The Pope Manufacturing Company made the car in 1906 and the charger in 1912.
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Men ride on an electric car designed by Siemens and Halske outside of Berlin, Germany, c.1882.
Thomas Edison poses with his first electric car, the Edison Baker, and one of its batteries, c.1895.
A Columbia electric car, c.1899.
Roger Wallace drives his electric car, c.1899.
Camille Jenatzy drives his self-designed electric car near Paris, France, c.1899. He was first person to exceed 100 kilometers per hour (62 miles per hour) in a car.
An electric car being charged, c.1900.
Electric cars of the New York Edison Company line up in Manhattan, 1906.
An electric street sweeper cleans the roadway in Berlin, Germany, 1907.
Electric vehicles recharge at a power substation, 1909.
A Mercury Arc Rectifier Charging Set powers up an electric car in a garage in Cleveland, Ohio, c.1910.
A Detroit Electric car drives on a mountain road between Seattle and Mount Rainier, Washington, c.1920.
Сейчас в США строится мегазавод по выпуску литиевых батерей для электрических автомобилей ТЕСЛА:
Роботизированное мегапроизводство литиевых батарей ТЕСЛА в штате Невада, США.
http://cat-779.livejournal.com/97392.html
Amazing Vintage Photos of the First Electric Cars from the 1890s
http://www.vintag.es/2015/07/amazing-vintage-photos-of-first.html