--- Begin Message ---Also gasoline was more expensive in 1910 than it is today.
Adjusting for inflation gasoline was $2.00/litre , compared
to $1.00 /litre in Canada today.
Harry
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From: Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, August 13, 2006 2:23 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]: History of Electric Vehicles > Electric cars fell out of favor when gasoline models began to
> routinely achieve speeds of 30 to 40 mph on ordinary roads.
> Electric cars could not keep up. Range was limited but that was
> not a problem back in 1910 because people seldom drove far. For a
> trip over 20 miles they would take the train. Even gasoline cars
> were limited because there were few paved roads and no gas
> stations outside of large towns and cities.
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> The first person to drive across the U.S. was Horatio Nelson
> Jackson in 1903. It took him 65 days and he had to essentially
> rebuild the whole car several times along the way, and wire ahead
> to small towns and have them stockpile cans of gasoline.
>
> Here is an interesting automobile timeline:
>
> http://www.pbs.org/horatio/car/autochrono.html
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> - Jed
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