Although the inventions of Rudolf Diesel And Henry Ford considered some of the earliest and most important developments in the world of car – much to the disappointment of Cugnot fans everywhere – the usual all-electric cars skip like the pioneers of the autonomous technology they have. Magnetic gears donut media are here to change that with their latest good layout videotapes about what it’s like to drive a 100-year-old EV. spoiler alert: even after a century, and then several, early electric cars still ran as smooth as butter.
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Video a closer look at one 1909 Electric bakerquietly pulled out of everyone’s favorite auto enthusiast’s garage, Jay Leno. Officially, Baker Electric is classified as a horse-drawn carriage, following its designer, Walter C. Bakerstarted in the fledgling automobile industry by making axles for horse-drawn carriages.
And thanks to a novel technology called electricity, which quickly became popular in the early 20th century, Baker was able to give the horse a rest by designing and building a self-rolling luxury carriage, which pushed forward by charged particles.
It was a very primitive design — one of the first — so it may seem crude or trivial to our modern eyes, especially when placed next to an electric vehicle like Lucid Air or Tesla Roadster, but Baker Electric was at the cutting edge of all-electric cars 114 years ago. In fact, you can draw parallels between it and today’s electric cars and maybe even self-driving cars: The Baker EV doesn’t have a steering wheel and is a seat on wheels. Just like modern AVs Zoox and others are working on one day carrying passengers in rooms like those powered by battery packs.
The Baker Electric is controlled by a rudder and the throttle is a lever, not a pedal, but underneath those differences it’s not hard to see the line that connects the Baker EV to modern. Tesla, lucid And BYD tram. They even had similar limitations, such as terrible waiting times at charging stations, which were practically in existence in cities like New York at the time.
Sure, the Baker EV can take up to 48 hours to charge, as Jay Leno explains, instead of the three or four that modern electric cars take, but back then it had a range of up to 80 miles! Worry about that. The problem is that EVs have always been the bane of impatient and range-worried drivers. In any case, check out the whole thing videotapes because it’s an interesting crash course in the history of electric vehicles, which has gone much further than most people realize.
