Kenneth Smee drives his home-made electric car (1948)

[ReeceSMEE]

My great uncle! :)

[Odziz]

@ReeceSMEE

My pleasure fella, nice one for the family album.

Your the second relative I had commented :)

[Wolfytototito]

toy....

[actstuntcam]

It's hard not to believe there's a conspiracy against electric cars, when you watch a clip like this and then read all the specs for various electric cars with this post. What the heck is going on????

[toyznstuff]

mobil, exxon, BP, shell. that's where the problem is... do you really think that an electric car is going to be made to the general public? term limits for our REPRE$ENTATIVE$....

this is why no new technology. it's there, you're just not going to see it in our lifetime...

[scoobydog411]

I tell my friends , the future of cars is in the past . the new cars now are junk i think .

[gratedrake1]

funny 125 miles on one charge on one battery wats the car companys excuse for a 65 mile per charge EV1

[symmetry08]

don't be jealous. He would be run over like that in few days later if he did.

[kdkinen]

now i'm pissed!!!!

--25 mph, 5 hours of ride charge, 1 hour to recharge,

..in 1948 :O ????

what is our problem????

--oh right, we are all busy reading shakespeare instead of learning about electricity

--fuk we' re behind

[Odziz]

LoL

I know exactly how you feel.

Take a look at Jay Leno's 1909 Baker Electric

watch?v=O9vC3S8MJPY

Makes you feel like histories moving backwards.

[kdkinen]

cool, wow, millionaires are pretty much the only ones who have them eh?

--i'm working on a bedini that will power an EV conversion, hopefully :P

--cheers man

[Odziz]

Keep me posted on the Bedini EV.

I've always been a great fan of his work.

Be nice to see someone like yourself put it to good use.

[kdkinen]

i'm thinkin it's way easier to just make an electric dune buggy

--rather than converting, just make a simple rear wheel drive oversized go-cart

100+ volts on-demand... first the house, then the car :P

[shakaama]

I'm sitting here trying to design an electric / solar car with style, range and the best technology. My only problem is how to ... keep the design or make use of it.  [i.e. not have it stolen, make money from it]

[lololol36]

I find it that English people seem pretty wise. :P

[sharon102645]

must have been one biggum of a battery.

[legaata]

In the early 20th and late 19th century electric cars were in majority and gasoline ones a minority. Gasoline cars became common first as electric car industries were bought up by the oil companies and transformed into gasoline car production.

[Odziz]

What goes around comes around.

Take a look at the Israeli initiative on electric cars on YouTube.

Gas guzzling cars have had their day.

The electric car is here to stay!

[mielectric1]

lets see 25mph and 5hrs run time = 125mile range?

[Odziz]

1p per mile

1 hour charge time

25mph

5 hours running time

125 mile range

One 12v battery

Not bad for a car built in 3 weeks in 1948, so why can't we do it now ?

[mielectric1]

fact is we can do it now, but we all know why we don't, a tiny little car like that wouldn't be allowed on the roads now, and the large cars wiegh so much that lead acid batteries don't give much range, and we all know who owns the right and controls the price to the better battery techs. Everyone sees it as a way to get rich off the public need so they sell it to the highest bidder, which will always be the comp. with the largest profits, who is that...

[BenchMarkd]

because oil equal money for big business, big business sponsor politicians, and politicians sit on the boards of big business

[RichardsADHD]

We did, they were into production from GM,then Chevron bought the patent from them. Chevron burries the technology fromt he world, and continues to increase the prices of oil.

[cyberlord64]

technicly speaking tzero's specs are:

0-95% charge in one hour

90 miles per hour (single gear ratio 9:1)

155 miles per hour (multi gear ratio)

0 to 60 mph in 4.07 seconds

range 300 miles

even those numbers however are not the best result we would have gotten if electric cars would evolve along with the conventional cars.

let's not forget that electric cars had an evolution gap of almost 60 years! (60 years is what took eniac to evolve into laptops and netbooks! )

[Odziz]

1p per mile and charging by an extension cord, things have'nt changed much have they. The new Smart EV does exactly the same.