Английская Википедия:Electrobat
The Electrobat was one of the first electric automobiles. It was designed and built in 1894 by mechanical engineer Henry G. Morris and chemist Pedro G. Salom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1]
History
Morris and Salom had backgrounds in battery-powered streetcars and, as the battery streetcar business was fading, they teamed up to make battery road vehicles. Their Electrobat received a patent on August 31, 1894. Built like a small version of a battery streetcar, it was a slow, heavy, impractical vehicle with steel tires to support its immense, 1,600-pound lead battery.[2] An improved version, the Electrobat II, entered production in 1895.
In 1896, the pair founded the Morris & Salom Electric Carriage and Wagon Company.[3][1]
Subsequent versions were lighter and had pneumatic tires, with bodies built at the Caffrey Carriage Company in Camden, New Jersey. These cars steered by their rear wheels and had two Шаблон:Convert motors that propelled them Шаблон:Convert per charge at Шаблон:Convert.[1] Morris and Salom went on to build about a dozen Hansom cabs based on this vehicle, to compete with the horse-drawn cabs then in service in New York City; they operated in New York, Boston, and elsewhere.[3]
In 1897, they sold the cabs and their concept to Isaac L. Rice, who reincorporated the enterprise as the Electric Vehicle Company, which later became part of Albert Augustus Pope's empire.[3]
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Morris & Salom 1895 Electrobat IV
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Electrobat Taxis in Manhattan in 1898
See also
References
Шаблон:ReflistШаблон:Commons category
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 Шаблон:Kimes-USCars3rd
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 G.N. Georgano, Cars: Early and Vintage, 1886-1930. (London: Grange-Universal, 1985).
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