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

Kenneth Smee drives his home-made electric car around Reading and then back home.
A man called Kenneth Smee walks towards a tiny electric car parked in a road. We are told that Kenneth built the car himself. He gets in and drives off. Various travel shots of the car going along the road.

Smee pulls up outside his house and reverses into position. Smee's wife throws a wire for recharging the batteries out of the window and Smee connects it to the car.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• electric
• car
• vehicle
• transport
• ev

[ReeceSMEE]

My great uncle! :)

[Odziz]

@ReeceSMEE

My pleasure fella, nice one for the family album.

Your the second relative I had commented :)

[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.

[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...

[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! )

[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.