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INTERESTING FACTS * Electric Vehicles Have Been Around Way Longer Than You Think *
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INTERESTING FACTS * Electric Vehicles Have Been Around Way Longer Than You Think *
by Paul Sun 04 Aug 2024, 9:22 am
In 1900, about a third of vehicles were electric.
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Original photo by Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/ Alamy Stock Photo
For centuries, getting around by horse and cart was the standard mode of transportation. By the 1800s, however, these hay-powered haulers were causing problems on busy city streets. As more people moved into cities, the number of horses dramatically increased, and with so many equines on the roads — New York City had around 150,000 horses in 1890 — public health concerns emerged over disease and mountains of manure. Horse travel, frankly put, was dirty in comparison to making way by horseless carriage, aka the first electric vehicles. Marketed as clean, quiet, and easy to drive, early electric cars, which resembled traditional carriages, became so popular that by 1900 they accounted for around one-third of all automotive vehicles on roadways.
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Ferdinand Porsche, inventor of the luxury car brand, created the first hybrid vehicle powered by both gas engine and battery. Dubbed “Semper Vivus” (“Forever Alive” in Latin), the car sported a 926-pound battery and was renamed “Mixte” when it hit the market in 1901.
The earliest known full-sized electric car was designed by Robert Anderson, a Scottish inventor who built his version in the 1830s, though that car (and many of its successors) didn’t go very far; at the time, batteries were rudimentary and couldn’t be recharged. It took about three decades for electric car batteries to improve, and starting in 1881, battery-operated buses began ferrying passengers in Paris, Berlin, London, and New York. A few years later, Iowa chemist William Morrison applied for a patent for his electric carriage, which could travel around 50 miles on one charge at a top speed of 20 miles per hour. By 1897, the top-selling car in the U.S. was powered by battery, though electric vehicles would hold the market for a relatively short time. By 1913, manufacturer Henry Ford had [url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fords-assembly-line-starts-rolling#:~:text=On December 1%2C 1913%2C Henry,one hour and 33 minutes.]fine-tuned the mass production of gas-powered cars[/url], dropping their price and helping to usher in a new era of private transportation.
Pounds of manure produced on NYC streets each day in the 1890s
2.5 million
Year GMC debuted its “Rapid” line of vehicles, the company’s first electric trucks
1913
Price of an electric car in 1912 (over $53,000 today)
$1,750
Cost of Ford’s Model T in 1912 (nearly $20,000 today)
$650
Science & Technology
2m read
by Interesting Facts
Original photo by Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/ Alamy Stock Photo
For centuries, getting around by horse and cart was the standard mode of transportation. By the 1800s, however, these hay-powered haulers were causing problems on busy city streets. As more people moved into cities, the number of horses dramatically increased, and with so many equines on the roads — New York City had around 150,000 horses in 1890 — public health concerns emerged over disease and mountains of manure. Horse travel, frankly put, was dirty in comparison to making way by horseless carriage, aka the first electric vehicles. Marketed as clean, quiet, and easy to drive, early electric cars, which resembled traditional carriages, became so popular that by 1900 they accounted for around one-third of all automotive vehicles on roadways.
The first hybrid car was a Porsche.
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Ferdinand Porsche, inventor of the luxury car brand, created the first hybrid vehicle powered by both gas engine and battery. Dubbed “Semper Vivus” (“Forever Alive” in Latin), the car sported a 926-pound battery and was renamed “Mixte” when it hit the market in 1901.
The earliest known full-sized electric car was designed by Robert Anderson, a Scottish inventor who built his version in the 1830s, though that car (and many of its successors) didn’t go very far; at the time, batteries were rudimentary and couldn’t be recharged. It took about three decades for electric car batteries to improve, and starting in 1881, battery-operated buses began ferrying passengers in Paris, Berlin, London, and New York. A few years later, Iowa chemist William Morrison applied for a patent for his electric carriage, which could travel around 50 miles on one charge at a top speed of 20 miles per hour. By 1897, the top-selling car in the U.S. was powered by battery, though electric vehicles would hold the market for a relatively short time. By 1913, manufacturer Henry Ford had [url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fords-assembly-line-starts-rolling#:~:text=On December 1%2C 1913%2C Henry,one hour and 33 minutes.]fine-tuned the mass production of gas-powered cars[/url], dropping their price and helping to usher in a new era of private transportation.
Numbers Don't Lie
Pounds of manure produced on NYC streets each day in the 1890s
2.5 million
Year GMC debuted its “Rapid” line of vehicles, the company’s first electric trucks
1913
Price of an electric car in 1912 (over $53,000 today)
$1,750
Cost of Ford’s Model T in 1912 (nearly $20,000 today)
$650
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