I would like to find out about the electric car manufactured in France1900 that traveled 180 miles/one charge?

Question

One charge and it traveled 180 miles. Where can I find the plans for this vehicle. Why aren't they being manufactured today, a hundred and seven years later and we are being gouged at the pumps by pimps for the petrolium industry.

Answer 1

Electric cars were very popular about 1900. But I don't think they could go 180 miles on one charge. They just weren't that good. That is why they are not made today.

Answer 2

I would take more care of who your voting on. Many mechanic's have said before that having your carburetor set for propane you could also burn natural gas. It would still burn fuel were now using, with ethanol as well

Answer 3

http://earlyelectric.com/

http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Gender...

Can't find exactly what your looking for but here are some interesting sites.

Answer 4

If you really want to build a wooden buggy with no suspension or brakes to speak of with a wet lead acid battery for power, go right ahead.  No one is stopping you from building one.  There is likely a good reason a hundred year old design hasn't been copied in 100 years.

Answer 5

Its a myth.

Never happened.

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Edit addition:

Re "Who Killed the Electric Car"

The US Consumer killed it.

We demand cars that can go 0-60 in 7 seconds or less.

We demand cars that can sustain 70 mph for a minimum of 120 miles nonstop.

THERE IS NO SUCH ELECTRIC CAR.

Even the "Tesla" won't do it.  and thats a $250,000 high performance electric car... currently on the market... that no one will buy because ... it doesn't meet our needs.

If a $250,000 car can't give the performance the AVERAGE consumer demands... and the average consumer can barely afford a modern $25,000 vehicle (not even the price of a Prius...)  Then there's no way that an electric car will survive on the market.

If you can't sell them... no one will build them (except the kooks making the Tesla and the Xebra)

Answer 6

It's quite possible, imho, if the car was travelling at the motor's sweet spot (optimum speed) and the route was flat. Jay Leno's electric buggies are still running on their original batteries, 100 years later (read Popular Mechanics.)

There are *many* other nearly-free-energy sources that aren't being manufactured. FYI, I have water-powered clocks and calculators that work.

If chemicals were changed in open-style batteries, imho they would not need to be charged. Jay Leno's antique batteries are open-type, and he changes the chemicals periodically, too.

Here's another battery developement that should surprise you, too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEq-GbVcF...  (global TV newscast)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ymFIVX9V...

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http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/1091

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Answer 7

My son told me of a conspiracy documentary called :who killed the electric car?" I'd like to see this myself. I'd love to see the technology involved. Apparently Mel Gibson was one who was leased one of these vehicles.

Each person allowed to lease the vehicle, was made to go through a vetting process. All cars were destroyed after the lease period.

This obviously wasn't in 1900, but more like the mid-1990's

Answer 8

Beside being a myth, the cars range was maybe 80 kilometers and it was very slow. Electric cars are worse then gas cars. To get the electric energiess from the coal you burn in our old power plants, through the wires to your batteries onto the road, you have an energie efficiency of maybe 1%. Gas engines have 14% and a modern Diesel engine like Volkswagen or BMW have it, has up to 30%. I drove a VW in 1978 with 95 mpg and the exhaust was clean enough to inhale.