The late XIX and early XX centuries – the first self-propelled carriages, steam engines and internal combustion (well, come on) electric! Incidentally, the first threshold speed in a 100km/h overcame it electric. However, then automoile developed rapidly and by the early 30-ies of electric cars were forgotten.
View to today. 1988 Toyota produces cars-the electric car (model Prius). The bottom line is this: You sit in the car, turn the key, move the control lever to position “Drive” and immediately (!) start the movement. What is you go – you don’t know. Usually small trips take place on electric. When the machine “knows” that the battery sat down, she starts the gasoline engine and charges the battery. Provided emergency case – if batteries sat down, out of gas – you pull the red handle in the trunk and (Oh, miracle!) batteries are full, you can go.
ELECTRIC VEHICLE “PROTON”
In the distant 1960-m to year, in accordance with the doctrine of the Association of school and life, our 10-grade “B” in full force was aimed at a large aviation plant with a mysterious name “Enterprise p/2402” where we had to master one of the working professions.
Rare video about the production of electric vehicles in the USSR. Be sure to see to understand that at the time we were “ahead of the rest” in development of such technologies.
Even the ancient Romans realized that to quickly get to the farthest provinces of the Empire is possible only in the presence of good roads. This truth was so obvious that laying them in the Roman Empire became a matter of national importance. In the end, the well-preserved Roman road with broken cars still line function somewhere in the twenty-first century.
Race through the streets of a nimble brightly painted machinery-trailers with checkered Board. Scurry Shuttle for precise routes, working tirelessly from morning to night. On the hood of each is an inscription: “Latvia” and the logo: “the RAF”…
He appeared on the streets of the capital shortly after the war, in 1947. At first glance the design of the car “Moskvin-400” was not fundamental innovations. Its main advantage was a good correlation of parameters of a balanced relationship of technical solutions, comparative simplicity.
Executive car GAZ-12 “ZIM” was intended for managers of the second echelon of state power (Ministers, secretaries of regional committees, chairmen of Executive committees, etc.) and had to take an intermediate position between the middle class car GAZ M-20 “Victory” and ZIS-110 limousine.
Changeable automotive fashion, and tended in the early 1960-ies to structures of a more severe, angular style, prompted designers to develop Gas Executive car with a more modern design than the GAZ-13.
If at the end of 1940-ies of the GAZ-12 ZIM looked quite stylish, at the end of the 1950s from its former glory and left no trace.
I was born in 1944, and almost from the first year of life I was haunted by a sound — an ominous growl bearings rolling on asphalt. The sound that accompanied the movement on a small wooden carts returned from the war disabled legless…