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Lead batteries don't.

• rightbyte 7y ago
  The biggest andvantage for lead batteries is probably that you don't need cell balancing which would have been really hard at that time. You just overcharge all cells and call it a day. Really nice batteries from a robustness perspective.
• tomatotomato37 7y ago
  To a 1910 industrialist acid batteries were exotic chemistry. Don't forget IC cars were hand-cranked during this time, and magnetos for spark plugs only came into commercial availablity 4 years before this article is based. It took another decade for starter motors and auxiliary electronics to make their way into IC automobiles. Basic commericially avaliable electronics were cutting-edge back then.
  • rightbyte 7y ago
    The gasoline engine was probably equally exotic. Sulfuric acid has been manufactured since to 18th century. And you don't need permanent magnets to make a DC motor. And electrical motors were even used to power vehicles before Otto constructed his gasoline engine. I guess heat engines just were something people were more used to? Going from steam to gasoline seems like a smaller step.