It is extremely usual to see the 21st century as the emergence of electric cars. However, its accuracy is discussed.

Because we will have to take the calendars a little further: the 1800s… If that period electric cars were produced, why didn’t they succeed?

Electric vehicles were very popular in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

In fact, in the early 1900s, we can even say that about one -third of the US cars were electric. Some developments brought by the natural era have reduced the use of electric vehicles and their popularity has been increasingly lost.

The history of electric cars began much before the internal combustion motor vehicles and showed great development at the end of the 19th century. The idea of ​​using electricity in transportation began to take shape with experiments in the early 1800s. In 1828, Hungarian engineer Anyos Jedlik developed a small model by developing a simple electric motor.

Although electricly -powered vehicles were seen on a theoretical idea, it was much more.

The development of first electric vehicles that can be used in real terms is the second half of the 19th century. These vehicles became more possible with French scientist Gaston Plant in 1859 invented the rechargeable lead-acid battery. Thanks to this battery, electric vehicles could now be used for short breaks.

In 1881, Camille Faure developed the lead-acid battery and made it higher capacity. This step was the spread of electric vehicles. In the 1890s, electric car production in the US and Europe gained a lot of speed.

These vehicles usually had 30 to 65 km/h faces.

However, the golden age of the electric vehicles did not last long. When the internal combustion engine technology began to develop in the early 1900s, in 1908 Henry Ford launched Model T mass production and fuel cars became more accessible.

Gasoline vehicles offer longer range and fuel filling was made more rapidly than the charging of batteries.

Therefore, electric vehicles have been pushed to the background and as seen, it is now rising again.

Was the only reason for fuel?

Of course it wasn’t. In that period, electric vehicles had short range. Charging stations were almost there, and it took a lot of time to charge the vehicles. For fuel vehicles, stations did not stop counting.

The low faces they reached were of course a criterion in this election. Electric vehicles were insufficient due to the rules of the transfer in speed and performance. Moreover, in the 1900s, the electric network was common only in big cities. It turns out that gasoline was everywhere. Since more investment in fuel technology was made during the post -war period, electric vehicles were shelved at least until the 21st century.