Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The Detroit Electric company survived until 1939, but the
Great Depression and the cheap nature of oil and petrol saw the Detroit
Electric company crushed and sent out of business.
According to a reprint of an old print advertisement for the Detroit Electric, which you can see at Zap’s website.
It notes that the Detroit Electric was “Truly the car for summer luxury and coolness is the Detroit Electric.”
Part
of the sales pitch was: “Drive it anywhere - perfectly shaded - windows
open and the breeze blowing through. Starts with the turn of a key. Its
operating is so free from heat and throb - so silent, smooth and
restful - that you'll welcome its use on the most heated days.”
Even
back then, it was clear that some people knew just how efficient an
electric car was over its petrol powered equivalents, with the ad
proclaiming: “Investigate out "Chainless" Direct Shaft Drive - a
straight path of power. Fewer parts - silent running. No concealed
chains. Pneumatic or Motz cushion tires. Batteries - Edison, Ironcalde,
Detroit or Exide.”
Thank goodness the electric car is finally
coming back. It will mean a far smaller dependence on oil and petrol to
drive the world’s fleet of vehicles, it will mean far fewer greenhouse
gas emissions, the cars will use far fewer parts, will cost much less
to run and is a future we should have been enjoying – for the last
hundred years!
David Bass
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