Did you know?

... that electric Cars go back as far as to the early 1830s, a the time when electric car creations started to appear - Scottish, Dutch, Americans and French. During the late 1800s France and Great Britain were the first to support the further development of electric vehicles. "La Jamais Contente" a Belgian built electric racing car set a world record for land speed nearly a 110km/h - in 1899. Yes right! 1899!

Even before the 20th century began the first commercial fleet of electric driven taxis in New York City was built having a range of around 28km/h and 18km/h fast.
The first hybrid car with built in combustion engine and an e-motor occured as early as 1916.

Arround 1900 electric cars in America were out-selling all other types of vehicles in not having the vibration, noise and smell created by petrol driven cars. What was the most difficult piece of technology in petrol cars - the gearbox - was not needed in electric vehicles at all.

The discovery of crude oil in Texas and the resulting availability of cheap petrol in combination with Ransom Olds' and some years later Henry Ford's mass production of cheap petrol cars killed the e-vehicle and triggered the environmental disaster the combustion engine would cause in the century to come.

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