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IF NOT FOR CHEAP OIL
WE MIGHT HAVE HYDROGEN
CARS NOW
The first hydrogen
car was invented in 1807
With our constant changes in the automobile have
we really found anything new? Certainly not with the use of
hydrogen, or the electric car, or the hybrid, these were
in use or discovered long before the gasoline powered vehicle of
today.
Robert Anderson of Scotland is credited of inventing the first
electric carriage in or around 1832. American, Thomas Davenport
built a more successful model in 1842. A non-rechargeable
electric cell was used by both inventors.
During the early 1900s the electric vehicles had
many advantages in that they did not have the vibration, smell
and noise associated with the gasoline powered cars and did not
require the long startup time of the steam engines.
If not for the discovery of Texas crude bringing
down the price of gasoline and Henry Ford with assembly lines
and mass production reducing the price of his internal
combustion engine powered vehicles to 500 dollars electric cars
would been around for a long time.
The first hydrogen powered car was invented by
Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland in 1807. It used a
mixture of hydrogen and oxygen for fuel which is now called
browns gas and is highly touted as a gas saver by the auctions
on eBay selling hydrogen generators.
The first 4x4 vehicle was a hybrid vehicle
invented by Ferdinand Porsche in the early 1900s when he also
build hybrid racing cars.
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