1914 Detroit Electric Car
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- Restored Detroit Electric car driving out of the Edison Tech Center and down the street. This one was owned by electrical engineer Charles P. Steinmetz at General Electric. 1914 model 48 Duplex-Drive Detroit Electric. This car can be seen at Union College. See our site on electric car history.
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That is a magnificent motor car. It has better styling than 99% on the vehicles today!
Motorless even
It's a box, not much to look at tbh. Looks cool but I'm pretty sure there is this on EV that is basically the same looking
But the aerodynamics are horrible, making it much more inefficient
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Imagine these made of carbon fiber with modern motors, modern battery tech, and a roof made of modern solar panels. Just leave it out in the sun and they charge themselves. Love the style of these old cars. So elegant.
Imagine how much more livable our cities would be if we all had cars like this one. How much more relaxed our lives would be!
How are our cities not as livable?
No, imagine if people, even on the countryside, had everything they needed in WALKING distance. THAT would be relaxed and livable.
honestly - its the unrelaxed people who demand todays un-easy cars..
What a beauty! I love how you have to climb the step to get in it, which gives you a great elevated position above the ground to observe your environment and big windows all around to see out of. There's also no stupid center console to restrict your movement inside.
I couldn't agree with you more. I have very severe muscle issues and I HATE how today's cars are so low and you actually have to lift your leg UP to get into it and sit down in that 'pit.' Even cars in the 20's and 30's had running board and you literally could climb into them and WALK to the other side in the back seat!
I hate those consoles too. I had to get a new vehicle last year. I had a 2005 Yukon and when I started looking at the new ones, I was totally shocked how your legs are literally pinned in between the door and console with no room for movement. I ended up getting and older SUV with low mileage to accommodate my health.
Those cars didn’t have the weight of safety glass, no airbags, and crumple zones either.
I saw this model in the automobile museum in Reno, Nevada. It was fantastic to learn the electrical car history.
Isn't this the car that some man and his wife from New York State bought? There is a video of them here on TH-cam of them at a show with it and he explained how it used to be in that museum.
this car is way ahead of its time
Actually, it was a car precisely of its time. In 1900, a full 1/3 of the cars on the road were electric, and cities like NYC and Chicago had electric charging stations on every block.
In fact, the gas cars took off only after the invention of the Electric starter motor, cz before that you basically had to handcrank to start the engine, which takes a lot of effort, whereas Electric & Steam cars (yep, steam cars were a thing) didn't have that issue.
@@yasirsaheed It was a combination of the electric starter and a big shortfall of lead for batteries due to WW1.
It got beaten by gas cars...clown.
My father had one when it was growing up and was already a classic car!!
Look at those round windows in 1914.
I saw an open-topped electric car at a dam around Mission, British Columbia. Nice of the police to give you an escort!
Back to the future, love a program of the history and develeopment of electric cars.
I wander how long it will go before it needs charged?
You sit high and easily. Your all-round vision is good. You glide along smoothly and quietly. You would probably reach your destination a few minutes later than you would in today’s whizzos, but that wouldn’t matter taking today’s traffic into account
Beautiful car.... ! :)
Future technology from 1914.... ! :)
I would absolutely use that to buy groceries. I was always thinking of buying an old golf-caddy for 2.000 bucks. It had normal car-batteries, you can recharge it easily. Perfect for the short way to the supermarket.
Detroit literally had/has everything. Greatest city in the country.
we had clean vehicles way back but we blew it….this was the tesla of the 1900s
em forty As an EV enthusiast/driver, keep in mind that modern EVs are radically different from these early EVs. High capacity batteries (lithium-ion) took many decades of advancements in precision technology, computation, and research to finally become viable. Early EVs hit a technological wall not for lack of trying. By the 1970s, EVs struggled to reach 60km ranges at reasonable speeds, even with exorbitant prices. Fortunately, modern EVs still benefit from the years of automotive R&D done on things besides the ICE (safety, manufacturing, controls, etc.).
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The thing is though that no money was going into battery research and advancement, there was no one to do it because everything was going into petrol technology
As cars got more heavy and developed more features there was just no battery to power them for a long distance. See the Electrovair in the 60s which was a nice concept but failed because of that.
@@doggydeeds
That's wrong - there has always been battery research. Maybe not exclusively for cars, but companies always researched for more high capacity batteries.
The batteries used in Teslas (18650 li-Ion bundles) were originally developed for laptops. If you ever tear down a laptop battery pack from the mid 2000s there is a high chance you'll find them in there.
Thomas Edison invented this, not Nicola Tesla
Very interesting. No soft starts or S-ramps in that day and age, just a big drum controller.
That's cool. MY father learned how to drive on a Model T Ford. It was his uncles.
A very charming car.
I would love to have one of these!
I don't understand why we dont have the same thing around just updated, never change the idea
The fact it has a bell reminds me of trolley cars.
trainguy11. Makes sense as most of the EV factories churned out streetcars and trolleys as well, and the big flashy Playboy millionaire that tried to corner the car and battery market with his EVs in the 1890s (The Electric Vehicle Company of NYC)* also owned a NYC streetcar company.
He almost single handed killed the EV when his company got overextended, went broke and his electric taxi company had stopped servicing cars and taxis already on the road.
There were almost as many EVs in 1900 as steam cars. Far more than ICE carriages, that were mostly popular in the rural areas. EVs were invented around 1840, long before ICE.
*sound familiar...
Id love to own that baby! Id polish it every day!
Superb
Golden era is coming back
Electric cars had their place in this country, and were perfect in an urban setting. Back at that time, rural roads weren’t suited for much of anything other than horses , and if you were traveling from city to city it was more practical to take the train. So electric car’s didn’t require much range.
1:52 The headlights look almost Victorian in their design
More class than modern Mercedes
Nice Torque kick :D
Jeez, Imagine if this took off...
Wow, that throttle in that thing isn't very smooth is it?
Barnacules Nerdgasm It is caused by rheostatic regulation with few steps, changing battery cells interconnection or using motor field weakening. Our historic trams from 1920 - 1940 in Prague tend to do the same behavior, they have 4 steps in series connection (300 V per motor) and 3 steps in parallel connection (600 V per motor) and 7 steps of dynamic brake. If you stand still, release hand brake and put 1st step, it does the same “kick” as this car. For era of this car it was most modern type of power regulation, later replaced by thyristors and now by IGBT transistors feeding existing DC motors or invertors used for asynchronous multiphase AC motors.
Barnacules Nerdgasm only one like and you have nearly a million subs damm
The throttle is like one of the Autopia cars in Disneyland were, or the electric cars in the Six Flags Parks....
Soooo cool
Instant torque!
a tough old machine
It was not only AC VS DC war, but OIL VS Electricity in cars industry.
This video does not show the dash board. Jay Leno has one of these under restoration.
The dash board looks incredible on Jay's car. Jay had someone send him the original side lights that you see on this car. Jay has upgraded the wiring harness, and even that is impressive. I look at the cars on the road today, the vast majority have the appeal of a shoe box. I was behind an Acura TLZ, and there were so many weird bends in the rear sheet metal that I thought either this car's been in a wreck or someone went crazy with the clay model.
ハイセンス、当時の文明の高さを感じる。
The man driving the car looks like Thomas Edison's great grand son but sadly Mr Edison family bloodline died off
Nearly, his son Theodore, was married to my cousin- Anna Osterhout ( they met at MIT and she was one of the first female graduates )...
At the time this car was made, only a quarter of American homes had electricity. ICE vehicles grabbed market share, and except for WWII, when EV's of this vintage were pulled out of garages and put back into use because of gas rationing, ICE's have ruled the road ever since. This car would have been for the well-to-do, just like EV's are today. A 2023 Model 3 costs over twice as much as a 2023 ICE Corolla.
could it go 16 miles till another charge for 6 hours?
And it's 2016 and we still don't have a good useable, reliable, long driving electric car? Compare to like telephone technology or computer technology, or about "anything else!" How far these have come and seem to just boom yearly!
No one else is questioning this?
Tubergen MotorSports huh? where have you been. we have the Tesla model S. it's usable, reliable, powerful, with long range (almost 300 miles) and it recharges insanely fast! Did I mention it can almost drive itself too?
I forgot to add "affordable"
Good, useable, reliable, affordable
Wasn't the modle s like 70,000
It just seems like these cars are slow coming. I know the acceleration on some of these cars is insane I've seen a few electic drag cars and bikes kick ass over gas cars and bikes. I think the electric motocycles are coming out now and getting much better even dirt bikes from KTM.
Yes. Affordability is a major concern. But fortunately the model 3 is coming next year. And several other manufacturers are beginning to follow. So within a couple of years we'll hopefully have truly ticked the affordability check box too.
Luc vs, government subsidies licked the big oil's ass.
@@bazzie85 Yep, and with prices of used electric cars plummeting, they can even be a better value than gasoline-powered cars.
Make it yourself thanks to inplix page. I think it's the best way to learn how to build it in the cheapest way.
Every one is surprised that ev existed back then you could say there shocked 😉
@Futurebreeze lol
So cool
A battery powered golf cart by today's standards.
Ha, electric cars in 1914, 2017 we still have cars that run on gas? What is going on?
The Rockofeller's oil monopoly and Rotschild's baronic thieving has killed e-cars of early 1900s and let spread dirty polluting oil based cars.
I'd say it's cuz of the higher energy density of Gasoline & the easy of refueling over recharging a battery, so even if they kept making electric cars, people just moved on to Gas cars cz they were clearly convenient to use.
There was a very big problem the electric car & battery industries faced in 1914, that sucked up most of the worlds lead supply. WW1.
@@MrToranaGuy so true.
@@Nairuulagch and this is correct. in the US congress a vote was to be taken what would be the - road - for American vehicles, cars that is. petrol powered or electric. Rockefeller bribed congress members with MILLIONS of $$$ and so they voted - petrol -. That time crude was used mainly to power cars. they did not know yet that much more could be made from oil, like plastics, paints and the likes.
Where in ny is this?
In it's day there was a train station everywhere this was a practical way to get there reliably a lady could drive it .it didn't s..t or eat.
Que tan complicada es la tecnología de esa época para que una persona privada replique esa tecnología y la regale al mundo y dejarnos de guerras por el mineral llamado petróleo?
we had the technology way back then we blew it.. some models reach 100 miles although at lower speed of that era.. after 100 years if we had continued development we could have had 1000 mile range by now or even more. we chose stinky technology in place of that quiet clean one….
em forty They chose greed and to ruin earth instead of saving it and helping all
@@ContinueinFaithofGod24 I don't think anyone realized that fossil fuels could be a cause of massive pollution, cz it was an era where Doctors recommended smoking 😂
@@yasirsaheed did they, really?
@@cashbonanza963 www.cbsnews.com/pictures/blowing-smoke-vintage-ads-of-doctors-endorsing-tobacco/
@@ContinueinFaithofGod24
It's just that you have no idea about car technology...
Please compare a typical car from 1910 to one from 1935 and then you'll see why electric with the battery technology from back in the day was no more considered a viable option for the latter...
Plus, in contrary to greentard conspiracy theories, battery research never stopped. Not only cars can use high capacity batteries, the 18650s used in Teslas were originally developed for laptos.
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No transducers so they were limited to 15 mph?
The Detroit electric got to about 60kph (35mph). It and other EVs of the time used switches to rearrange the battery into different series and parallel combinations of cells to get higher or lower speeds - a bit like changing gears. I know someone who has one running with LiFePO4 cells to replace the original lead acid battery and a modern motor controller replacing the banks of switches. He gets about 160km range (100miles) in his 100 year old EV. The original motor needed no work aside from a clean.
@@PeterEVcharade Jay Leno stated those motors were overbuilt...
So been 100 year compare did not in prove that much we should have flying cars by now
El primer auto eléctrico
A stagecoach without horses.
So electric cars are nothing new
Will this make electric cars dated
Speed? 25miles. That’s why ICE beat it
ICE still beats electrics today
Is legal to drive cars from that time?
Only if you have permission and you wouldn't be allowed to use it daily on the road.
Wrong, any antique car can be registered and driven in restored or original condition.
Yep, I drive my 1926 Ford Model T most weekends during the Summer. No special permits needed.
I don't know how the laws are over there (in USA), but where I live (Denmark 🇩🇰), as long as cars are roadworthy, and has license plates and papers, it can drive on the streets no matter the age or speed.
What! How do you charge it????
There's probably some kind of electric cable...
The future vehicle came 106 years ago.
With Avasva plans doing something like that was easy.
People standing in the way, it's rude.
this shit could have saved world from century of wars
What a dumb comment.
I assume the two plastic buttons by the tiller were added recently, perhaps to make start-up easier? Of course, starting up electric cars was something the ladies and the wimpier dudes vastly preferred....
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See how much more of a manly skill starting a internal combustion engine was? I've hand cranked a car but it sure makes you think about taking a trip anywhere, I guarantee.
A number of Doctors drove them when "house calls" were made...
ya me doy cuenta porque estos autoss se dejaron de fabricar y es qque no evolucionaron nada entre 1900 y 1932 fueron todos iguales, en cambio el coche a gasolina si evoluciono, tenia 4 plazas, tenia luces electricas, direccion a volante, y mejores asientos, la culpa del coche electrico no fue de las baterias sino de los industriales y empresarios que no veian mas aya de sus narices .-
Consider that the transistor was invented in 1947. What would an electric automobile you built today be like if you limited yourself to pre-1947 technology? It would be a joke nxt to any late 1940s car. It wasn’t until the 1960s that we started putting electronics in automobiles (the alternator, for example), except for the radio (which used vacuum tubes). It was much later that petroleum became expensive enough to make alternative technologies worth developing. It’s just a matter of economics and the state of technology.
A lot of green fools on here who have no idea what they're talking about. Electric cars were experimented with heavily in the early automovile.era. they weren't practical yet. 1) batteries were massive lead and acid deals that were very expensive and highly.inefficient. 2) youd be lucky to get 100 miles before a long, long recharge 3) 1914 people, not even 15% of the country had electricity yet. Go outside a city and you were screwed. 4) it essentially comes down to the tech wasnt there yet. Oil companies didnt need to kill the electric car, or just wasnt there yet. Gasoline was far easier, rugged, and efficient. Today it's different, and electric is the way of the future. But please, lay off the conspiracy sauce for 100 years ago.
oldtimesmatthew. The Electric Vehicle Company of NYC killed the EV. It was run by a Playboy industrialist showman that tried to corner the market on battery factories and made his EVs and chargers highly proprietary, as well he used his influence to try and keep Stanley, White, Ford, Benz and Cadillac off the streets or pay him royalties. He fought against Edison even. He tried to reinvent the worldwide taxi business by making cities adopt his EV but only use his batteries and repair parts.
When his company ran out of money in the 1890s, so many people thought EVs sucked, they jumped on Ford's cars, especially after they were mounted with electric starters and sold for a third the price of an EV.
Electric cars are still garbage, the end.
This car is far in front of golden era of lovely pretty ladies 🧚♀️🧚♂️💃👠👠how of our dirty time with ugly cars and ugly people!
The more you know
Grandma duck car
sir same vehicle manufacturering to me please this vehicle drive easy to me i handicaped right leg and right arm cuts to electric shock. Amrendra.singh gkp up India
People standing around looking at this useless electronic car in a museum 😂 we truly live in a stupid society.
Still more reliable than a tesla.
Gas was a better solution back then and still is today. Electric will not take over until we have a power supply solution. Battery technology is not good enough yet. You want an electric car then go buy it. Don't rely on my tax dollars to subsidize your purchase. Don't force me to buy one.
So you are telling me electric cars been around for over a century but are just NOW becoming a thing??!🤦♀️ and even still they are out of reach for most people!! Talk about sloooooow to the party!! And people thought we'd have flying cars and vacationing on the moon by 2000....🥴 while some of our tech improved a lot of it is still sadly stagnant.....
I take my unleaded please don't have to wait for 45 minutes to charge taking to much time if you traveling state to state plus is battery goes to dead say goodbye to it 10k for new batteries p.o.s
I don't think it was designed for inter-state travelling.
That tyrannical oil-igarch foot really needs to be lifted off the world's collective neck. #NoMoreExcuses
Kim Hunter. Do you drive a private car or truck?
What kind is it?
Solar. ✅👏👏😊
You all need to except Leon musk as your savior or go to He'll !!!
With Avasva plans doing something like that was easy.