News article in the San Jose Mercury News talking about development of #EV #ElectricVehicles. "The success of the electric automobile becomes every day more assured... the immense development which is now taking place in the means of transport in Paris must be met by something other than horse traction." (March 17, 1899). #automobile
@ai6yr It's interesting that EVs were a big deal when automobiles were new. People liked them. There were electric scooters too and women rode them.
This happened despite the fact that battery and charging technology was awful, motors were inefficient, and motor controllers wasted a lot of your electric power. But it still worked and was useful to people.
It was all quashed of course, along with most every other attempt at electrification of transportation in the U.S.A.
