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I have no idea what you guys are talking about. I guess this is an ongoing joke I am late to. There is no 90mph electric car in the 30s with or without batteries.


You sir, are incorrect. Doing a little research, there were actually a few electrics that set speed records into the 120-130mph range well BEFORE the 1930's. A Belgian electric ran at 68mph in 1899, and in 1906, a re-engined (or motored I guess) Stanley Steamer electric ran at 127mph! On batteries, at a time when gasoline cars were achieving whopping speeds in the low 20's and 30's. After President McKinley was shot, he was taken to the hospital in an all-electric ambulance. Neither he, nor the ambulance company survived the year though! Around 1914, over 9,000 electric cars were sold by only 2 car companies, and Henry Ford owned one, a Detroit Model 47, which he never sold. And Detroit Electric, which collaborated with Edison, built 15,000 cars and over 500 trucks in it's 34 years at a time when electricity itself was as new a concept as cars were. Funny, Hiram Maxim (son of the guy who invented the Maxim machine gun) was told by his boss (after designing a gas powered motorcycle) that no one would ride atop an explosion (internal combustion).... Hmmmm....