Porsche electric technology way ahead of Tesla!!

[davester]

Well, time-wise that is. The first road going design by Ferdinand Porsche has just been discovered in a shed, and it's powered by an electric motor. It has a top speed of 22 mph and a range of 50 miles. It's an 1898 model year, by the way...
http://blog.sfgate.com/topdown/2014/01/2...20126101=0

[rgG]

Saw that on TV yesterday. Pretty cool

[Paul F.]

Bet the ride is rougher, and no air bags...

[Harbourmaster]

It's clearly those skinny, high durometer tires that give it the edge over the Tesla! :ftw:

[deckeda]

A lot of people probably don't know that battery powered cars were fairly popular in the early days, until much of the nastiness of combustion gas engines was overcome.

[Ken Sp.]

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...sg-1021245

The new 918 hybrid Porsche is incredible!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche_918

Here's a photo I took in August at the Pebble Beach Concourse

[davester]

Paul F. wrote:
Bet the ride is rougher, and no air bags...

Rougher ride usually means more responsive, tighter handling. I hear that they use bags of hay instead of air bags.

[M>B>]

Yaba, Badba, Doo!

[mrbigstuff]

the Bailey electric was quite a popular local brand made at the turn of the century. the last century.

[AllGold]

According to a documentary I watched a while ago, back in the day when Edison was trying to promote electric lights and electrification for home use, gasoline was a waste product of refining oil into kerosene (which was the primary method of home lighting). They didn't know what to do with the gasoline and dumped tons and tons of it into fields. Eventually, Rockefeller (who was afraid of losing his kerosene profits to electric) saw the potential to use gasoline for internal combustion engines.