SassyCoburgGoth 75 miles!!?? But they had lead-acid batteries then … and they stiil compete even with lithium-ion ones.
DBDude I’m skeptical of the range claim. Not only is that a lead-acid battery, the electric motors back then weren’t nearly as efficient.
WinterNL Reverse image search (and a bit of Google Translate) tells me the picture is from 1916 and that it’s using a combustion engine on top of it. It seems to be an Autoped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoped And from 1916 according to this (the Autoped wasn’t produced until 1915 either way): https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2019/02/23/articulo/1550938959_901007.html
SassyCoburgGoth
75 miles!!?? But they had lead-acid batteries then … and they stiil compete even with lithium-ion ones.
DBDude
I’m skeptical of the range claim. Not only is that a lead-acid battery, the electric motors back then weren’t nearly as efficient.
WinterNL
Reverse image search (and a bit of Google Translate) tells me the picture is from 1916 and that it’s using a combustion engine on top of it.
It seems to be an Autoped: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoped
And from 1916 according to this (the Autoped wasn’t produced until 1915 either way): https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2019/02/23/articulo/1550938959_901007.html
CryptoShitLord
I love how kids these days think everything was invented 2 weeks ago… LOL