The history of electric cars up to 1990
The history of electric cars is the story of how the development of practical methods of storing electrical energy combined with the invention of methods of converting electrical to mechanical energy provided the possibility of a new, quiet and clean method of propulsion. This history also describes how that method of propulsion experienced a brief period of ascendancy at the beginning of the twentieth century, before being over taken by the internal combustion engine. The reasons for the reappearance of electric cars in the last two decades of the twentieth century are also discussed and give a lead into the subject matter in the remainder of this book.
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