> Im reading "The Electric car in America 1890 - 1922" and throughout, > it prints articles (mostly ads) claiming 35, 50 and 100 mile ranges but NONE > of > those were made under peer review condition. Throughout, the real > honest reporting concluded over and over again, that about 20-25 miles > was the routine repeatable range.... which rose to about 50 miles by 1910 or > so.
But the one thing that surprises me is the assumed mileage. Generally the average miles per month was on the order of 1000 miles per month that is not that far off from our present assumptinos of average mileage around 15k miles a year or simiilar to 1200 miles a month. And that was over the most ridiculous roads. Though I assume that statistic is only for people with cars, which was extremely small. Oh, electricity cost about ten cents per kWj, about the same as today (without conversion to inflation). Oh, and the average mileage of a horse was about 40 miles a day, again, the same as todays average family daily travel. Bob _______________________________________________ Address messages to [email protected] No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
