ELECTRIC CAR

DAVENPORT AND DAVIDSON TRY ELECTRICITY

Possibly in 1834, Robert Anderson of Scotland created the first electric carriage. The following year, a small electric car was built by team of professor Stratingh of Groningen, Holland and his assistant, Christopher  Becker  More practical electric vehicles were brought onto road both American Thomas davenport (1802-51) and Scotsman Robert Davidson (1804-1894) circa 1842. Both of these inventors introduced non rechargeable electric cells in electric car.

  The Parisian engineer Charles Jentaud fitted a carriage with electric motor in 1881. William Edward Ayrton  and john Perry, professor at London ‘s city and guilds institute ,began road trials with an electric tricycle in 1882; three years later battery driven electric cab serviced Brigton around 1900, internal combustion engines were only one of three competing technologies for propelling car. Steam engines were used, while electric vehicles were clean, quiet, and did not smell. In the United States, electric cabs dominated in major cities for several years.

  The electric vehicles did not fail because of limited range of batteries or their weight. Historian Michel Schiffer and other maintain, rather, that failed business strategies were more important. Thus, most motor car in twentieth century relied on internal combustion, except for niche application such as urban deliveries. At the end of the century, after several efforts from small manufacturers, general Motors made available an all electric vehicles called EV1from 1996-2003. In the late 1990’s Toyota and Honda introduced hybrid vehicles internal combustion engines and batteries.

One of the drawbacks of early electric car was that they needed constant recharging by hand