car history

Gasoline Car Infrastructure (or “Electric Car Unfrastructure*”)

A history in pictures

*Not actually a word

1771: Nicolas Joseph Cugnot's steam-powered car

1876: First 4-stroke Internal Combustion Engine

Nicolaus Otto and his engine.

Karl Benz and his motorwagon

The Roads of the late1800s

Roads at the end of the 1800's and into the early 1900's were poor, often no more than cartpaths. Electric cars, with their heavy loads of batteries required being pulled, lifted and pried out of sinkholes.

The 1893 War

Nikola Tesla’s Alternating Current (AC) is able to travel farther distances than Thomas Edison’s Direct Current (DC). AC is accepted in more cities, making it hard to charge the DC Electric Cars. Today all households run on AC and we use AC-DC adapters to run DC appliances.

Nikola Tesla

Thomas Edison

The 1893 War

Nikola Tesla’s Alternating Current (AC) is able to travel farther distances than Thomas Edison’s Direct Current (DC). AC is accepted in more cities, making it hard to charge the DC Electric Cars. Today all households run on AC and we use AC-DC adapters to run DC appliances.

Nikola Tesla

Thomas Edison

1895: The First Car Company

Not many households had electricity or could afford it. Gas was only 5 cents a gallon!

134 identical Benz Velos where made and sold in France

The 1910’s: First Gas Stations

1901-1915: Gasoline Cars are mass produced in the U.S.

1901: 425 Oldsmobile Curved Dashes are sold.

1915: 12,00 Ford Model Ts are sold! The price was brought down by assembly line manufacturing.

Henry Ford

1920’s,1930’s: Better roads, more stations, repair shops

References• http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aacarsassemblya.htm• http://www.econogics.com/ev/evhistry.htm• http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blotto.htm

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