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Just saw an episode of American Pickers where they at some guys farm going through all of his 1920's era car collection. There was a little side part where they
by at-fates-hands 7y ago
Just saw an episode of American Pickers where they at some guys farm going through all of his 1920's era car collection. There was a little side part where they talked about how common electric cars were in the late 1880's and early 1900's before Henry Ford and the discovery of Texas oil.
Made me think about where we could be if we had not made the wholesale switch to gas powered cars and instead focused on building a more cost effective electric car.
- OldHand2018 7y ago> before Henry Ford and the discovery of Texas oil There is a book called Internal Combustion which claims that Henry Ford and Thomas Edison were working together on an electric car but that in 1914 Edison's battery facility was destroyed in a massive blaze of very suspicious origin. With this setback and the beginning of WWI, the electric car was lost. You can read that book and make your own conclusions, of course :)
- megaremote 7y agoImagine the wonderful world we could be living in if someone had banned personal cars? Instead of roads everywhere we would have parks on instead, places for kids and adults to exist. Instead of urban sprawl we could have had walk able and cyclable cities, with a lot less pollution. Instead of 40,000 dead every year in the US we could have them living. Instead of 100,000s seriously injured, we could close down hospitals. Etc...