http://www.providencejournal.com/cars/content/20131103-electric-car-is-an-idea-whose-time-has-come--many-times.ece Electric car is an idea whose time has come — many times by Paula Constantine November 03, 2013
[image / The Providence Journal http://www.providencejournal.com/incoming/20131101-carchives-electric_3wz18jdgl.jpg.ece/BINARY/w620x413/Carchives+Electric_3WZ18JDGL.JPG 1967 Renault Dauphine EV ] Electric and hybrid cars are attracting a lot of interest now. Of course, electric cars are not new. The power source is as old as cars themselves, as early experimenters tried out different ways to power and move their vehicles with any fuel that could be contained and transported. So we have the two book ends of the electric saga — what fewer people know about are the points along the way. Here is a different kind of hybrid. A Yardney Electric plaque on the front of a Renault Dauphine, and our Providence Journal library stamp of Nov. 17, 1967, help to make the trail of breadcrumbs to magazine articles and manuals online. Yardney Electric, a New York electronics manufacturer (note the license plate) briefly marketed a car that was a 1967 Renault Dauphine with the powerplant swapped out with Yardney Electric innards. A hybrid of a different kind. The original caption keeps it simple: The Dauphine is introduced by a Yardney man. Other photos from around this time show engine bays full to the top with fuel cells, so this light chassis must be stuffed with batteries! There is no indication what this event was, or where it was. Or what the other man was doing on the motorbike. But it’s clear that there were people who spent the better part of the century thinking the problem over. CarsJournal Archives is an occasional feature that brings selected photos out of the Providence Journal’s archives. There is often only very limited information available about the photograph. If you have more information, please contact pconstan @providencejournal.com , and be sure to put “CarsJournal Archives” in the subject line. [© 2013 Providence Journal] For all EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date Here are today's archive-only EV posts: EVLN: Revival of Electric Car Conversions EVLN: Reinventing air travel with VTVL electric passenger planes + EVLN: Metric's 9s Miata Conversion-EV Setting Track Records {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-1967-Renault-Dauphine-EV-an-idea-whose-time-has-come-many-times-tp4666189.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
