02-24-2021, 10:42 PM
(02-24-2021, 04:34 PM)Jfro5687_imp Wrote: Funny how as you grow older so many things in life seem to go full circle. Some of the very first cars were electric, like 100 years ago, I just Googled and found the above, a Detroit Model D. That didn’t last.
In the 70’s and 80’s in the UK there was a thing called ‘Economy 7’ home heating that was pushed/promoted heavily. The idea was if you joined the scheme you paid less for electricity overnight and used it to heat up (brick) storage heaters bolted to the walls inside your home. Come daytime the power went off but the hot bricks kept giving off warmth, until night time and the cycle repeated itself. Bought our first house in 1991 and it had these things. Awful. Total crap. Gave it a year to see if we could get used to it but didn’t. It was very very expensive and they didn’t warm the home enough. Like blowing on a candle. So had a firm tear the lot out and had oil central heating installed instead (no gas in the village). Never looked back.
So, the point being, unless and until they (Governments) get the infrastructure right none of this stuff is gonna work.
A few major reasons for the short era of the first electric cars:
* The rise of the oil industry.
* Battery maintenance was onerous in the day.