Subj : Halt and Catch Fire
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Moondog
Date : Fri May 06 2022 11:02:00

  Re: Halt and Catch Fire
  By: Dumas Walker to KAELON on Wed May 04 2022 04:04 pm

 > > I would generally agree, but one 'conspiracy theory' that is hard to shake
 > > e proven story of how General Motors killed the first Electric Vehicle, de
 > > its proven technical success.  Perhaps gasoline was too cheap, and the ent
 > > pply manufacturing line was U.S.-controlled, but there is enough industry 
 > > r disclosure about this that it is generally accepted as fact.
 > 
 > General Motors did not exist when the first electric vehicles were built
 > well over 100 years ago.
 > 
 > 
 >  * SLMR 2.1a * "Stamp Collection??  Ha-Ha!" - Nelson
 > 

True, but GM had brought the idea back and were very interested in seeing an
electric car as being more than a glorified golf cart.  Ford was one of many
that produced a battery powered car in the early 1900's.  One company built
what looked like a covered wagon with an electric motor targetted towards
rich women who wanted to drive but not mess with turning a crank.  It had a
range of two or three miles, which was enough range to get downtown and back.
 Fords cars were part of a sales pitch to help his buddy Edison to sell
electricity.  Ford also produced cars that were made of hemp fibers and ran
off hemp oil.  He also made cars that ran of ethanol to promote farming.  I
can't imagine Ford was that serious in making an electric car when he
realized the technology to make high capacity batteries was in it's infancy.

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