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This Flocken Elektrowagen Was For Real
The first electric cars were speculative models of the real thing in the minds of…
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Thomas Parker Builds First Electric Car
Electric cars and batteries have always been in a mutual, symbiotic relationship. This was never…
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Ányos Jedlik Creates First Automotive Object
Before Hungarian Ányos Jedlik experimented with electricity, it was hard to imagine an automotive object.…
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Electric Submarine Power Beneath the Ocean
The first submarine vessels used human effort to propel them across, and through the ocean.…
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Gustave Trouvé Launches Battery Electric Boat
Gustave Trouvé was an electrical researcher, and innovator born in France in 1839 of modest…
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Moritz von Jacobi Demos First Electric Boat
Moritz von Jacobi was a Prussian engineer working largely in the Russian Empire, and an…
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World’s First Zinc Chlorine Flow Battery
Flow batteries store their chemicals in external tanks, and circulate them through their cells when…
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Tissandier and Chromate Acid Cells Fly
The chromate acid cells we also call bichromate of potash batteries, were a great innovation…
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M Stanley Whittingham Father of Intercalation
Developing the lithium-ion battery was far from being the flash of inspiration that occurred with…
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Lightweight Lithium Metal Takes Center Stage
Lithium is the metal with lowest density, meaning least compactness. It also has the greatest…