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Fuzzy Logic Electric cars? John D. Rockefeller Jr was no fool
Fuzzy Logic Electric cars? John D. Rockefeller Jr was no fool | Electric cars? John D. Rockefeller Jr was no fool |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 18 March 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 3 The website explains that the Detroit Electric’s original
cars could travel 211 miles on a charge – with technology and batteries
from 100 years ago! They note that “With today's technology we should
be able to go far beyond that.”Featured Whitepaper
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Speaking of the Tesla Electric Roadster, this amazing electric car is also in the news, with today marking the day the 2008 production of the Roadster finally goes into production. Indeed, with any luck, the electric cars of tomorrow will be using Stanford University’s “revolutionary nanowire battery delivers 10x the charge of lithium-ion”, about which we published an article recently. According to the CNET article, you would have paid anywhere from US $1,775 to US $2,375 for a 1917 model Detroit Electric. Given the fact the US dollar has lost more than 95% of its value since the early 1900s, US $2000 back then was a massive amount of money that only the super-rich could afford, hence the likes of Rockefeller, Ford, Edison and others as headline customers. CNET’s article also notes that the car could travel “between 100km to 160km on a battery charge, with a max speed of between 10km/h and 40km/h.” So why did the original Anderson Electric Car Company, makers of Detroit Electric, go out of business - and what was one of their sales pitches from the past, which still sounds fantastic today? Please read onto page 3. |
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