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Electric cars were discontinued a hundred years ago;
"A travel revolution that the mafia stopped: The buried story of the electric car"
This photo is from 1910. Thomas Edison, the world's greatest inventor, stands next to a beautiful Bailey electric car. The car was equipped with a nickel-iron battery developed by Edison, which could travel up to 100 miles (about 160 kilometers) on a single charge.
This was not a dream, but the real beginning of a revolution that was stopped by conspiracies—at a time when the world had not fully adopted the gasoline engine, electric cars were running on the roads in all their glory.
In the same year — September 1910 — this same Bailey car participated in a 1,000-mile endurance test with gasoline cars and demonstrated its capabilities to the fullest. But this is only the middle part of the story of this journey. The real beginning had happened much earlier.
The Beginning of Electric Vehicles — Long Before Oil
The concept of electric technology emerged in the early 19th century.
In 1828, Hungarian inventor Ányos Jedlik first developed a small electric motor.
In 1835, Scottish Robert Anderson built the world’s first electric-powered vehicle — a rudimentary form, but the first attempt at battery-powered human propulsion on the road.
Various European and American inventors improved these vehicles in the 1870s and 1880s.
In 1890, William Morrison built the first successful electric vehicle in the United States — capable of seating six people and traveling at speeds of up to 20 kilometers per hour.
By 1900, electric vehicles were the most popular type of vehicle on American roads. Their use had become common in cities, especially among women and doctors, because:
They were quiet
They did not emit smoke
They were easy to start
They were free from the hassle of changing gears
Then what always happens - the conspiracy of powerful capitalists
The question is, why did electric cars disappear when they were so popular?
The answer is not simple, but a deep and bitter truth.
In 1908, Ford introduced his cheap petrol car, the Model T, to the market, which began to be produced at a low cost through the assembly line.
On the other hand, companies like Rockefeller's Standard Oil had completely taken over the production and distribution of petrol.
Together, they manipulated the market, the media and policy in such a way that electric cars gradually disappeared from the market.
Later, between the 1930s and 1950s, companies such as General Motors, Standard Oil, and Firestone became part of the campaign against electric vehicles. With their cooperation, electric train systems were also dismantled in many cities in the United States so that the public would be forced to buy gasoline vehicles.
Today's "new" electric vehicles — actually the return of a century-old technology
Now that the world is struggling with the toxic effects of fossil fuels, environmental destruction, fuel shortages, and global warming crises —
electric vehicles are once again being presented as a ray of hope.
But we must remember that this is not a new invention, but the reemergence of a buried fact of history.
The same battery, the same passion, the same future — what was a dream in 1830, became a reality in 1900.
He was a victim of expediency in 1930, buried alive, and today — in the 21st century — stands before us again with a new determination.
