1909 Baker Electric- from Jay Leno's Garage

1909 Baker Electric
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Although a crude electric carriage was originally created in Scotland in the late 1830s, the first functional electric car in the United States was produced in 1891. For the next decade, the clean, quiet electric car was the king of the road. In 1899, an electric car broke the vehicular land speed record, and by 1900, there were more electric cars than any other kind in the U.S., accounting for 38% of the nations car market.

Jay still uses his Bakers original Edison batteries.
In 1898, the same year that gasoline-powered vehicles first appeared, automotive innovator Walter C. Baker started the Baker Motor Vehicle Company in Cleveland, Ohio to produce his electric cars. His company went on to manufacture more electric vehicles than any other company in history, despite the fact that it ceased production of them in 1916. Baker presented the first ever shaft-driven automobile at the first American auto show at Madison Square Garden, and is said to have sold his first electric car to Thomas Edison, who developed its batteries. Jay still uses his 1909 Bakers original Edison batteries. He just washes them out occasionally and refills them, and they work fine.
The essentially maintenance-free Baker Electric was a high coupe with carriage styling, brass fittings and tillers instead of steering wheels. With no cranks, no fumes and no mess, the cars were very appealing to women, and were soon designed and marketed specifically to them. Stepping into a Baker was a little like stepping into a very small parlor - Jays Baker even includes a small make-up compact with mirror attached to an interior wall. Its not surprising that its his wifes favorite car, even if it is a little bit like riding in a phone booth.
One charge will take the car about 110 miles, which isnt much different from contemporary EVs. This is one car you dont want to take on the freeway, and its not so great on hills either. The top speed of Jays car is about 25 mph, which is probably a good thing, since it only has rear brakes. Back in the day, Baker became the first man to travel at 100 mph in his electric Torpedo, but a fatal accident during the trial kept him from claiming the record and making any further attempts to win it. When Charles Kettering invented the electric starter in 1912, and Henry Ford began mass producing gasoline powered cars which cost half as much as the average electric, Bakers days were numbered. Still, its difficult to believe there arent more electric cars on the road today.

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[jrcomputer]

As you become more knowledgeable you will understand we live in a corrupt self serving society.Electric vehicle is the cheapest manufactured vehicle on the planet.The motor is almost pennies to produce along with the controller and charging system. Batteries are a joke. Edison had a rechargeable alkaline battery but once it was sold it lasted for years as you have heard on this video .

Electric car is BAD business for everyone.The economy would collapse if implemented.

[fairyheli2]

they had good batteries in 1909????

[mphello]

@randacnam7321 WTF? Breitbart wasn't "assassinated".

Tough shit. It's my channel.

[randacnam7321]

@mphello  Oh, and kudos for gloating over the assassination of Breitbart /sarc.

And WE are supposed to be the uncivil ones.

Sheesh.

[randacnam7321]

@mphello And what would we replace oil WITH???

Oil provides HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of things that modern society would collapse without. Fuels are only a small number of them.

To say that we need to get rid of oil is to say that we need to get rid of civilization.

[mphello]

@randacnam7321 Your enumerating all the things we make from oil doesn't prove anything to anyone, other than making the case for the USA to get the hell off oil ASAP.

[randacnam7321]

@mphello And where will all of the lubricants and plastics come from. Last I checked, those are all derived from petroleum.

[randacnam7321]

@SuperSkillage Just looking at the car battery bank, I can tell (based on simple capacity/Peukert's law analysis) that its maximum possible range is about 30mi tops. Or in other words, you cannot pull 100A out of a 220AHr battery bank for 4.4 hours.

The car battery bank (12 T-105 golf cart batteries) costs about two grand. Typical lithium cell chemistry vehicle batteries are five figures easy.

And cell/battery charging is an electrochemical process that cannot be done by adding liquid.

[mphello]

@bluemoondiadochi

= economy collapse?! (it will collapse anyway)

if that's all it takes, than it is a pretty shabby economy=

BEST FUCKING RESPONSES EVER!!

Only unpatriotic anti-American fucktards blame environmentalists, climate hawks, electric cars, for economic collapse, rather than the REAL problem: unrestrained capitalism, banksters, Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve.

[mphello]

@randacnam7321 Electric cars will still get you farther than a gas car when all the oil runs out (or gets to $10,000/barrel).

[mphello]

@jrcomputer It is logically inconsistent to say that any labor-saving or money-saving technique or technology harms an economy and then to say that any other labor-saving/money-saver helps the economy. Either labor-saving/money-saving helps in all instances or it hurts in all instances. Which is it?

Growing one's own food is extraordinarily back-breaking and inefficient and labor-intensive compared to collective petrochemical efforts. So does self-grown food hurt or help the economy?

[mphello]

@jrcomputer Your first paragraph (completely) true makes your second paragraph completely falso. Electric cars make FANTASTIC business for everyone, as it frees up labor to do other things.