1916 Detroit Electric car

[SMGJohn]

Greedy Corporations today will assasin every electric car maker and expand their OIL marked. But I wonder what happens when OIL runs out, are they going to kill 2 billion humans and dig them under a mountain and wait a few years and it's OIL?

[bluemoondiadochi]

@SMGJohn it's a delicious irony that big business refuses to make an electric car. so much more the irony when people start recycling their old cars into electric vehicles (instead of buying new electric ones from big business) because gas is now too expensive.

[krashevich]

"1916 Detroit Electric car.."

And we don't have today on the roads practically no electric vehicles?

Something is wrong...

[MichelParisFrance]

@krashevich In 1899, the world fastest car was the belgium electric car "Jamais contente" ("Never happy") which ran at more than 100 km/h (more than 60 mph). In 1835, there were already some experimental electric cars which worked ! I guess that Rockefeller and others oil magnats should be able to provide more explanations on what happened to electric cars ... As you wrote above, there is "Something wrong" !

[KNGarver]

Cars would be cheaper and more efficient if they went back to the Model T. It came in many variants, sizes, and were made out of durable (American) steel. If they went back to the basics by reviving the T, without all the modern amenities people think are nessicary, like cupholders, power windows, and heaters and ac. They lived without it.

[bluemoondiadochi]

@KNGarver i'd be the first one to buy a simple car!

but Big Business is NEVER gonna do it! honest Henry Ford days are over - now it's only buy- break-buy again. and those "useless" things are very useful for milking extra cash from buyers. not to mention they break and we have to pay for them!

that's why i cruise around in a simple 20 y.o. car that will last forever. i sold my modern car to get an old one. and i didnt regret it yet, it works by refuel-and-drive principle.

[KapteinOpel]

OMG its grandmother Duck!

[2009jimmy2009]

1;10 escort cosworth!!!!!!!!!!

[briggs5sboy]

Henry Ford's wife owned one.. women were considered too delicate to operate gasoline powered automobiles

[trafficjam10]

it's shameful that they already had these a century ago and still haven't made it into the mainstream.....

[Bigjohnnywad]

COOL CAR!

[BaseStationZero]

It makes me smile watching this. :-)

[lockhughes]

The first North American to suffer death by auto was crushed by a low speed electric vehicle (Henry Bliss, NYC battery-electric taxi, 1899.)

[madmanmapper]

@lockhughes Umm, how much could an old electric car weigh to be crushed by it, and even so, that guy probably jumped in front of it and stood there for a while.

[DarioAndreella]

That's a shame!! Such a beautiful thing in 1916, and we're still burning that f****** oil there!! I hope we'll change our mind as soon, even if somehow it's just too late!!

Nice video, thank you!!!

[Dutchoven08]

YEP!

Electric cars ran as taxis in NYC starting in the 1890's.

That's 120 years ago...

And the car makers bolster the oil companies by claiming that it just isn't "viable".

120 years of product development down the drain.

The 1996 and 2001 GM EV1 excellent design...

Crushed and thrown down the memory hole.

while we burn baby burn oil like it's going out of style... And pollute beyond our wildest dreams...

...Why I'm supporting third party candidate,

Ralph Nader for President if the US!

[Kobaltski]

This car dates from 1916? This is nice I didn't knew that it existed in that time!

[boxa888]

and thats how big bussiness controls your history!! lol. i never did either! its actually sad because they had batteries back then that were very good. capable of 200- 300 miles!

[LeviMan2001]

really? wow i didn't know they had that much capacity? how fast were they getting these things up to? on the normal cars not the 1899 landspeed record at 68

[boxa888]

i caNT REMEmber the source, i think it was a historical video. its sad! i put up a video of a 80s electric car that i could have bought but a car dealer bought it before me, it was such a great electric car!!

[hobbes32]

about 40kph I believe was top speed.

[Myrtone]

@boxa888 How many cycles could the batteries do before they needed to be replaced?

[Msdomric]

@Myrtone

The optional Thomas Edison Nickel Iron batteries were advertised : 30 to 50 years of service.

Actually, nowaday people revive some of those batteries 70 years later by changing the electrolite(water). And they worked like new!

Charging time less than 5 hours!

[grassfibre]

This is a very interesting video. A lovely spaceous designed car from 1916, without ANY NOISE! The car looks very comfy. Are they? I saw one in the car museum of Brussels.

[vqdset]

wow a wagon without horses

[EnigmaNZ1]

Wow, seemed weird to have a car thats so quiet. I hope the driver isn't the guy facing the rear lol. Talk about having a back seat driver lol.

[Gewels8787]

wow... once designers had some taste

[rwp1946]

what goes around, comes around....

Todays go a little faster ! but not as nice looking !

[boxa888]

the tesla roadsters is very fast, acceerates faster than any racing car and looks very very nice lol.

[Tch3rn0byl]

er, no. While yes, the tesla does accelerate fast... there are many other cars that accelerate faster than it, by quite a bit.