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First Hybrid Electric Lohner–Porsche Auto
Battery storage for electric automobiles was proceeding apace, as more manufacturers began making lead-acid cells.…
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Two Experiments to Plot a Magnetic Field
A magnetic field is the space around a magnetic material that is active, and attracts…
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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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Penny Button Batteries Could Harm You
We choose our school experiments carefully, and make every effort to satisfy ourselves they are…
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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…