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BS. It took a genius the level of Elon and his superior genetics to think of putting an electric motor in a car.
You know some absolute dumbasses would actually believe that.
Well Elon does.
I heard he invented electricity. I’d confirm that with the supercomputer in my pocket, but why bother? I have a great education, and in all my years in school, they never mentioned anyone else experimenting with electricity before Mr. Musk, so he must have invented it, and if you don’t agree, you have Trump Derangement Syndrome.
There were quite a few electric cars, they started in the late 1800s made by multiple companies. Shit they even had electric trains.
I wish it would’ve gone into how the battery worked. I just can’t imagine that that part of it was too great.
It was lead acid batteries, same as are used today in most gasoline cars to start the engine. That technology has been around for a very long time. It worked for car like this because the car itself was very light, and it didn’t go that fast maybe 30 mph or so peak speed. So the power consumption was way way way less than a modern electric vehicle.
I always knew that reading Donald Duck comic books would pay off one day, I’ve known about these since I was a child, that’s Grandma Duck’s car!
Honesty it seems like a decent car
I’m honesty surprised they managed to get 80 miles of range. That’s pretty much what you get with a older Nissan leaf
Yea it was an actually decent car. We went the easy route and fucked up the planet by choosing the internal combustion engine.
Combustion engines are way better
Only now are we even seeing electric cars that can complete.
If we spent 100+ years focused on electric it would be better.
The motors were fine. It was advances in battery tech that made pure EVs viable. Really, hybrids should have been a thing a lot earlier. Series Hybrid tech has been moving trains, ships and industrial equipment for decades before the Prius(Parallel Hybrid) hit the market.
That’s it. All my life, “smart” people would tell me that’s Solar power isn’t economically feasible, so we shouldn’t waste time on it, and I’d say it would become economically feasible if we spent real time on it.
Eventually, over all those years we’ve gotten to the point where it is literally the better choice in many ways, but we could have gotten there many years ago.
A lot of the tech powering electric cars was only invented recently
I don’t think so
Try going on a long distance trip somewhere and then get back to me.
These days it is a little more doable. However, you still have to wait for your car to charge.
And that’s ignoring the wear on the battery from fast charging
How did they let these die? They’re so stylish, we should bring them back immediately except with solid state batteries that can let them drive 200+ miles and charge in 5 minutes.
Those older cars with the huge windows and great visibility handled rollover accidents by crushing the heads and necks of everyone inside.
At some point we decided the passenger cabin shouldn’t be the primary crumple zone, so you can’t make cars like that anymore.
Also, it probably has a top speed in the neighborhood of 30mph.
The low speed may have been that car’s only safety feature.
You wouldn’t want to go 30 in that thing. You’d feel like you’re in a rock tumbler.
Especially given the state of the roads at the time.
Assuming you’ve even got a road lol
I’d buy that.
I think one of these except more modern with all the advanced necessary features would actually be awesome.
But we gotta keep the 1920s car design. You csn put a modern battery, and bluetooth, and inputs for auxilery audio devices, and modern stereo syatem, and gps, and all this other stuff…but we gotta keep the old car vibe.
Nah buddy, 30’s design is where it’s at, look at this thing:
Honestly, people love to shit on the PT Cruiser but at least it tried to be a little different - arguably in a cool retro way!
The PT Cruiser looked amazing.
I’d be very happy if more manufacturers took similar style risks.
Buuuut, apparently we get the
swasticarcyber truck.This is why most cars these days are black, white or grey. “We don’t want something someone WANTS to look at, just something that isn’t offensive to the eyes” (sports cars don’t count here)
Without the monocoque, I doubt it can pass modern crash safety tests. Nor is there any safe place to install air bags.
Like this thing
You killed 3 fish and made a retiree not able to pay her utilities for that picture. Proud of you.
Tell that to the fucking billionaires, not me.
You’re fucking using it. That’s like getting diabetes by eating shitloads of McDonald’s and blaming McDonald’s for it. Or a bartender blaming Phillip morris for second hand smoke.
I already don’t eat beef, own an electric car, and don’t have kids. Stop pointing at me as if I’m the problem. You don’t know shit about me, don’t tell me what to do.
We know you’re using AI to generate slop and that’s precisely what we’re blaming you for.
Gross.
An even earlier manufacturer was Baker Electric of Cleveland, Ohio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Motor_Vehicle. They werem’t the first (EVs had been around since 1880), but by 1906 they were the biggest car maker, running the largest manufacturing plant in the world.
Main market was for those who made frequent short stops, and didn’t want to get their hands dirty hand-cranking the gas or steam motor starters. Their coupe model had a ‘boat-tiller’ instead of a steering wheel.
Jay Leno has a restored 1909 Baker Electric he showed on an old car show: https://youtu.be/OhnjMdzGusc
There was a glut of electric cars, then gas-powered ones with longer range showed up. In 1912, the electric starter was introduced for gas cars, taking away one of the main features of EVs. By 1914, Baker would merge and then shut down.
Remember when thought was given to the beauty of the design of cars (like above), and nowadays we have the mutant electric shaver that is Teslas?
No, by the time I was born beauty was secondary to aerodynamics. It was the right decision, but I do understand what we lost is something to be sad we’ve lost.
With teslas my bigger issue is build quality. Though the dumpster they sell is ironically one of the few deviations from the modern prioritization of aerodynamics over aesthetics, it’s just done by someone who doesn’t understand good taste. Compare it to those Honda EVs to see a similar idea done much more beautifully.
The cyber truck is disgusting. It’s what happens when you give billionaires all the decision making authority. It seriously looks similar to a dumpster.
