The 103-year-old electric car

Very cool post. I think it is so annoying how all of the car companies say it is not possible to create a good electric car... when we had them so long ago... people need to educate themselves! The auto standards we are setting right now are NOT good enough! and we CAN do better!

That looks like a decent car....even at 100 years old!

I would feel perfectly comfortable driving that vehicle on a frontage road.

I would then wave to the 700 cars stuck motionless in bumper-to-bumper morning rush hour gridlock as I sailed along at a comfortable 35 hrs (a speed approximately 100 times faster then the current speed of the H2 Hummer sitting in gridlock and totally unable to move or even exit the highway.)

I love it, awesome!

Who killed this electric car, Henry Ford perhaps?

I find it both fascinating and sickening to think, for the past 100 years, we could have been driving, and improving the technology of the electric car rather than gasoline vehicles.

Will we let the profit motive of Corporate America dictate the next 100 years?

Note: if this thread reaches 100 comments in the next 10mins and is voted #1....then Ford will immediately close the thread citing "lack of interest from public" and will haul it out into the desert to crush it.

This thread will then be replaced with a Ford-created thread devoted entirely to discussing whether it is better for a beer to taste great or be less filling.

Comments will be limited to 200 characters only and $75.00 will be deducted from your back account per post.

You will need to download Ford's proprietary internet browser in order to view the site (at $985 dollars) and your computer must only have DOS BASIC installed. Any other operating system will immediatly cause the computer to bust into flames. (If you are greeted with a C:\ prompt upon booting up then your running the right software.)

Congress will ask Ford to produce a slightly more sophisticated operating system than DOS, but will be informed that such a thing is "at least 50-75 years away from development and would cost trillions in R&D."

For those that do manage to access the new thread here is what you can expect:

You will be asked to create an account (a 3 hour process) after which you will be prompted to log in. After entering the correct name and password the system will reject them both as invalid. If you do manage to trick the Ford thread into letting you log in it will cause you computer to lockup/freeze unexpectedly once every 6 mins.

Six months from now Ford will then ask for another $200 billion in bailout money arguing "Act of God" as no one could possibly have foreseen that such a poorly constructed/ultra-expensive message thread would be an massive commercial failure.

yea, electric cars started it all, but gasoline powered engines quickly took over

I am so dissapointed in ALL car companies, not just the Big 3. If Fritchie was able to do this over a hundred years ago, and here we are on the brink of no oil, why the heck can't they get their act together?
I refuse to buy a new car until there is a decent electric option out there. Even the innovators like Toyota and Honda" No dice! I would have loved to get a Subaru outback that was electric! Or a Jeep!!! Until then, my money is staying with me.

(Dinosaur)Blood Money makes the world go round. Until the toxic fumes choke the planet to death.

#1 Proof that there was not interest in making Electric cars due to Oil deals between Big Auto and Big Oil.

Ford?!? Didn't they fold in 2009!

Yes, historically, the first cars were electric, but not easily mass produced.

Why do we Americans forget history so easily?

See: http://www.didik.com/ev_hist.htm

Who killed this electric car, Henry Ford (NAZI)

Genius!

now why can't the dunces in Detroit get this stuff down-pat?

should have been called the Model E,,,, Electric

There is a good reason why the electric car never caught on and it has nothing to do with a nefarious plot by “big oil.” If I can’t get in 2009 a reasonably prices battery that will power my lap top for more then a couple of hours how the hell do you expect to get a battery to power your CAR 103 years ago?

Back to the future.

Wow. Strangely that technology seems to have not evolved relatively. What gives?

this just goes to show that evil corporations have done a good job at hiding what should be a cleaner future

History repeating.

Phyllis Diller would love this post.

too bad they didnt seem more economically viable back then

That just goes to show you that monopolies destroy technological revolutions.

Folks, when you look in the mirror, tell yourself that we are actually over a hundred years or more behind in development.

We should have been building space stations earlier and developing solar power earlier and magnetic levitation "bullet" trains sooner.

What would life have been if we had adopted this vehicle instead of the fossil-fuel type? Where could we have gone?