1916 Detroit Electric car

At the Whiteman Park Motor Museum - play using the old YouTube player for best picture.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• detroit
• electric
• vehicle
• car
• ev
• motor

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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!

[Myrtone]

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

[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" !

[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?

[krashevich]

"1916 Detroit Electric car.."

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

Something is 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.

[KapteinOpel]

OMG its grandmother Duck!