harrisonpatm
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We have a lot of topics and threads regarding the potential of EV automobiles and what may or may not happen in the future. I thought it might be interesting, relevant, informative and/or helpful to have a look at what has happened in the past. What worked, what didn't, what got tried before and how it was received.
I live quite close to Dearborn, Michigan and have visited the Henry Ford Museum most of my childhood on a regular basis (critique Ford all you want, I don't think he was a saint either, but this is one of the best musuems in the country, btw). Now an adult with some young kids, I'm often visiting with them, and of course different things interest me now. I noticed there were a couple examples of historic electric cars. On this latest trip I thought I'd take a pic of all the ones there, and it was rather surprising to see how many!
Some of them are either expected or boring. I get why some creators would want to put the Prius in there, but the are still rather common even today.
A neat example of a Bolt that was used as a self-driving prototype. Note that this is from 2016, when hopes were high for the future of what self-driving could be. The reality has sunk in rather quickly for most people (a great example of why I thought it would be nice to have a thread about past EVs).
I waS pleased to see an EV1, famous from the film Who Killed the Electric Car?
An interesting example from the not-too-distant past, one of which I've even seen on my local classifieds for someone who would want to refurbish it, a 1980 ComutaCar
Those were all the ones I could find from semi recent history. But there are plenty of old examples too [continued on next post]
I live quite close to Dearborn, Michigan and have visited the Henry Ford Museum most of my childhood on a regular basis (critique Ford all you want, I don't think he was a saint either, but this is one of the best musuems in the country, btw). Now an adult with some young kids, I'm often visiting with them, and of course different things interest me now. I noticed there were a couple examples of historic electric cars. On this latest trip I thought I'd take a pic of all the ones there, and it was rather surprising to see how many!
Some of them are either expected or boring. I get why some creators would want to put the Prius in there, but the are still rather common even today.
A neat example of a Bolt that was used as a self-driving prototype. Note that this is from 2016, when hopes were high for the future of what self-driving could be. The reality has sunk in rather quickly for most people (a great example of why I thought it would be nice to have a thread about past EVs).
I waS pleased to see an EV1, famous from the film Who Killed the Electric Car?
An interesting example from the not-too-distant past, one of which I've even seen on my local classifieds for someone who would want to refurbish it, a 1980 ComutaCar
Those were all the ones I could find from semi recent history. But there are plenty of old examples too [continued on next post]