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Re: Someone cast Wolven Winter on New Orleans!
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Originally Posted by licker
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Originally Posted by Omnirizon
simply google "early electric cars" or better yet, if you have a university proxy to journal archives like JSTOR, you can read about the history of the car. further, if you have a university library with archived magazines from the late 19th century, you can see the trajectory of development of the car in the magazines and see the kind of propaganda adds ran by oil and auto. if you want to look up the work of Dan Lord, he is compiling and writing on all these things.
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Done, but what propaganda are you talking about? Or is any advertising propaganda?
In any case, there were electric cars competing with their gasoline based cousins, but ultimately the technological pace of the internal combustion engine left battery technology behind (as well as steam technology), and as Ford started his mass production lines there was only one vehicle type customers were interested in.
Moving ahead a century there are clearly reasons to prefer electric (or other alternative) vehicles over their ICE counterparts, and few would disagree that the auto manufacturers have done all that they can to keep from having to actually innovate until the last decade.
It should be noted as well that battery powered vehicles have been largely 'inferior' (in terms of power, distance, and price) to ICE. This is not particularly surprising as there was more research and development being done for the ICE chassis' rather than a systematic drive to create 'better' electric cars. We are fortunately in a different mind set today, and there is more interest (which means more funding) to explore alternatives. |
all advertising is scandalous, of course. 
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